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 an early-stage biotechnology startup developing mutation-specific human organoid models to accelerate drug discovery for rare pediatric genetic diseases. It partners with pharma/biotech customers to screen therapies and also pursues internal discovery for rare diseases with no existing treatments.
Primary product
An AI- and robotics-enabled organoid drug-discovery platform built from patient-specific hiPSC-derived 2.5D organoids
Founded
2020
Headquarters
San Carlos, California, United States
Team size
1-10
Industry
Biotechnology
Sub-industry
Organoid-based drug discovery for rare pediatric genetic diseases
Offices
14 jobs at Rosebud Biosciences
Business model
Stage
pre-seed + non-dilutive grant
Total raised
$774.8K
Latest round
SBIR Phase I Grant · Aug 2023
Latest amount
$274.8K
Aug 2023 · National Science Foundation
Aug 2023 · National Science Foundation
Mar 2022 · Y Combinator
Investors
Public materials describe the company as science-first, human-first, and engineering- and execution-oriented, with a focus on scalable, clinically relevant biology and close customer/partner collaboration.
Pricing
Not publicly disclosed; appears to be partnership/service pricing plus internal pipeline work
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
Public estimates vary from about $342K to $440K ARR (2025 estimates); company-reported figures are not publicly audited.
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
Secondary coverage of the iXCells/Rosebud collaboration, emphasizing scalable human-relevant organoid models for drug discovery and toxicity assessment.
Biocom · Jan 2026
Profile interview describing Rosebud’s human-first, automated organoid platform, customer segments, and partnership approach.
Business Wire · Jan 2026
Announced a partnership integrating Rosebud’s AI-driven organoid platform with iXCells’ iPSC platform to improve predictive human models for drug safety and translational decision-making in rare diseases.