Business Wire · Mar 2026
Announcement of a collaboration with Rosebud, Kantify, and Incite to evaluate off-target chemotherapeutic toxicities in patient-specific heart, liver, and kidney organoids.
Growing micro-organs to find new drugs
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Rosebud Biosciences is a 2020 biotechnology startup building patient-specific hiPSC-derived organoid models for rare-disease drug discovery and toxicity screening. Public sources place it in the San Francisco Bay Area, though the exact HQ city is reported inconsistently across sources; the company appears to be a very small, B2B, partnership-driven platform business with a pre-seed round and an NSF SBIR Phase I grant.
Primary product
Patient-specific hiPSC-derived organoid platform for rare-disease drug discovery and toxicity screening
Founded
2020
Headquarters
San Carlos, California, United States / San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
Team size
1-10
Industry
Biotechnology
Sub-industry
Organoid-based drug discovery and precision medicine
14 jobs at Rosebud Biosciences
Offices
Business model
Stage
Pre-seed
Total raised
$774.8K
Latest round
NSF SBIR Phase I Grant · Aug 2023
Latest amount
$274.8K
Aug 2023 · National Science Foundation
Mar 2022 · Y Combinator
Investors
Science-first and human-first; small-team, partnership-driven, rigorous, execution-oriented, and focused on standardized, scalable organoid systems.
Pricing
Undisclosed; likely custom B2B partnership and research-services pricing
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
Sub-$1M ARR (GetLatka estimated ~$440K ARR in Sep 2025)
Business Wire · Mar 2026
Announcement of a collaboration with Rosebud, Kantify, and Incite to evaluate off-target chemotherapeutic toxicities in patient-specific heart, liver, and kidney organoids.
Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News · Jan 2026
Trade coverage of the iXCells partnership highlighting scalable organoid workflows, human-relevant disease models, and Rosebud’s CEO comments.
News-Medical · Jan 2026
News coverage reiterating the partnership, emphasizing predictive drug safety and translational research uses.
Biocom · Jan 2026
Profile/interview describing Rosebud’s human-first approach, industrialized organoid systems, and partnerships with pharma and CROs.
Business Wire · Jan 2026
Press release announcing a partnership to integrate Rosebud’s AI-driven organoid platform with iXCells’ iPSC platform for rare-disease drug safety and translational decision-making.