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Overview
CellChorus is a Houston/South San Francisco life-sciences company that uses the TIMING™ platform and visual AI to perform dynamic single-cell analysis for biopharma and cell-therapy workflows. Public sources place formation in 2017, although Y Combinator lists 2020, so the founding date is somewhat inconsistent across sources.
Primary product
TIMING™ (Time-lapse Imaging Microscopy in Nanowell Grids) platform
Founded
2017
Headquarters
Houston, Texas, United States
Team size
1-10
Industry
Biotechnology Research
Sub-industry
Single-cell analysis / life science tools
Offices
Houston, Texas, United States
South San Francisco, California, United States
San Carlos, California, United States
Business model
B2B research tools and services
commercial assay service
Funding
Stage
Seed-stage, grant-backed
Total raised
$5.3M
Latest round
Phase I SBIR grant (NCI) · May 2026
People & investors
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer
Chief Scientific Officer
Co-founder & Board Chair
Independent Director
Co-founder
Co-Founder and Board Director
Work & culture
Mission-driven, multidisciplinary team working at the intersection of artificial intelligence, advanced microscopy, and molecular profiling to improve human health.
Benefits
Health plan coverage for team members and beneficiaries
Dental coverage
Vision coverage
401(k) plan
Health savings account (HSA)
Disability insurance
Product & market
Pricing
Commercial service offering / custom TIMING assay service; no public list pricing found.
Differentiators
- —Measures live single-cell behavior over time rather than static snapshots
- —Applies visual AI and neural-network detection to microscopy videos
- —Quantifies movement, activation, interaction, killing, survival, and secretion at scale
- —Integrates with single-cell RNA-seq and flow cytometry outputs
- —Can retrieve cells of interest for downstream analysis
- —Designed for translational and manufacturing analytics in cell therapy and related workflows
Technology
TIMING™ platform
visual AI
neural network-based detection
time-lapse microscopy
single-cell RNA sequencing integration
flow cytometry integration
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Customers
Top-25 biopharmaceutical companies
Small-cap public biopharmaceutical companies
Early-stage developers of novel therapies
Cell therapy developers
Antibody therapeutics developers
Vaccine developers
Competitors
PhenomeX
Molecular Devices
Enrich Biosystems
Samplix
Araceli Biosciences
ThinkCyte
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
Under $1M
Estimated monthly visits
1.3K
Traffic estimate as of May 2026
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