Fast Company · Mar 2026
Fast Company named Vivodyne one of the most innovative biotech companies of 2026, citing its automated biological data centers that test 10,000 human tissues at once and its use by top pharmas such as GSK.
Human organ-on-chip platform for drug discovery.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Aug 16, 2026
Overview
Vivodyne is a biotechnology research company that builds predictive human-data platforms for drug discovery and development using lab-grown 3D human tissues, robotics, and AI to generate preclinical human data before clinical trials.
Primary product
A robotics + AI platform for scalable testing on lab-grown human tissues / human organ models for preclinical drug discovery and development.
Founded
2020
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
30-40
Industry
Biotechnology Research
Sub-industry
Preclinical drug discovery / human tissue engineering / organ-on-chip / bio-AI
Offices
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Brisbane/South San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
Business model
B2B
platform
services
Funding
People & investors
Leadership
CEO / Co-Founder
CSO / Co-Founder
Julie O’Shaughnessy
Chief Operating Officer
Chief Biotechnology Officer
Sanja Menicanin
VP of Product
VP of Hardware and Automation
Senior Manager Business Operations
Scientific Strategy & Business Development
Senior Director, Business Development
Senior Director, Tissue Development
Work & culture
Public materials emphasize ambitious, mission-driven work at the intersection of biology, robotics, and AI, with a focus on building a high-performance team. No detailed public benefits package was found.
Compensation
No public compensation bands were found in the searched primary sources and company pages.
Product & market
Pricing
Not publicly disclosed; likely enterprise platform/service contracts for pharma and biotech customers.
Differentiators
- —Uses perfusably vascularized, lab-grown human tissues rather than traditional organoids alone
- —Automated robotics stack enables high-throughput experimentation at scale
- —Generates multi-omic human data for predictive modeling before clinical trials
- —Positioned as an alternative to less predictive animal testing
- —Broad tissue/model portfolio spanning the preclinical pipeline
Technology
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unix
javascript
nextflow
react
typescript
mlops
solidworks
confluence
jira
nvidia
ansys
mongodb
kuka
cuda
unity
docker
Customers
Most top pharmaceutical companies
Global pharmaceutical clients
Competitors
Emulate
CN Bio
Hesperos
Mimetas
TissUse
Recursion
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
$1M-$10M
Estimated monthly visits
2.7K
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Latest news
Penn Center for Innovation · Jul 2025
University-affiliated source confirming Vivodyne’s Penn roots and the financing to scale its platform.
The Philadelphia Inquirer · Jun 2025
Confirms the new round, prior $38M raise, headcount around 40, and expansion plans in South San Francisco.
Hit Consultant · May 2025
Summarizes the funding and expansion into a new robotic lab facility.
Axios · May 2025
Axios reported the round and highlighted Vivodyne’s San Francisco base and its use of lab-grown human tissues for drug discovery and development.
Jobs and careers at Vivodyne
6 jobs at Vivodyne
Senior Engineer, Microfluidics & Applications
On-site
Hardware + Automation
San Francisco (Brisbane), CA; San Francisco, California, United States
1w ago
On-site
Full-time
Senior Program Manager, Client Delivery
On-site
Operations
San Francisco (Brisbane), CA; San Francisco, California, United States
1w ago
On-site
Full-time
Senior Bioinformatician
On-site
AI + Data Science
San Francisco (Brisbane), CA; San Francisco, California, United States
1mo ago
On-site
Full-time
Lab Operations Specialist
On-site
Operations
Philadelphia, PA
2mo ago
On-site
Full-time
Senior Full Stack Software Engineer
On-site
Software
San Francisco (Brisbane), CA
4mo ago
On-site
Full-time
AI Senior Scientist
On-site
AI + Data Science
San Francisco (Brisbane), CA
9mo ago
On-site
Full-time