Commercialization depends on FDA clearance for broader hospital/lab sales; public filings describe pre-commercial, research-use-only sales and regulatory execution risk.
SourceBlood testing device for early diagnosis of cancer and treatment…
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Delee is a medtech/biotech startup focused on liquid-biopsy cancer diagnostics and treatment monitoring through circulating tumor cell (CTC) isolation and analysis.
Primary product
CytoCatch™ Isolation Platform and Imaging System
Founded
2017
Headquarters
1211 San Dario Avenue, Laredo, TX 78040, United States
Team size
11
Industry
Biotechnology Research
Sub-industry
Medical devices / cancer diagnostics
Offices
0 jobs at Delee
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Business model
Stage
Seed / equity crowdfunding
Total raised
$2.6M
Latest round
Equity Crowdfunding (Reg CF) · Dec 2022
Latest amount
$204.1K
Leadership
Co-Founder and Strategist; former CEO
Co-Founder, CMO, and Director
Co-Founder, CTO, and former Director of Engineering
Joost Leeflang
Director
Investors
Public sources describe a multidisciplinary team of scientists, engineers, and advisors focused on automation, clinical validation, and lower-cost cancer testing.
Pricing
Razor-and-blades model: platform sales plus recurring reagents and consumables; initially sold as a research-use-only device, then as a diagnostic medical device after FDA clearance.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
About $2.3M ARR (GetLatka, 2025); some secondary profiles list $1M-$10M
Estimated monthly visits
1.7K
Traffic estimate as of Jul 2026
Commercialization depends on FDA clearance for broader hospital/lab sales; public filings describe pre-commercial, research-use-only sales and regulatory execution risk.
SourceThe Ganesha Lab · Jan 2024
Profiles Delee’s participation in RESI JP Morgan 2024 after winning the BIGinBIO Excellence Award, and quotes Juan Felipe Yee on investor meetings and progress on the business model.
The Ganesha Lab · Jan 2023
Notes that Delee was one of the fund’s inaugural investments and describes the company as a Mexican startup working on liquid-biopsy-based early cancer diagnostics.
Forbes · Jul 2020
Early profile of Liza Velarde and Delee’s CytoCatch device, including the company’s fundraising story and early commercialization goals.
LinkedIn · Jan 2020
Company update announcing a Republic crowdfunding milestone and thanking supporters; useful as a contemporaneous fundraising signal.
Scientific Reports · Sep 2019
Peer-reviewed research tied to Delee’s team describing a fully automated microscope for CTC imaging and classification.