Asimov
asimov.com
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Drug Discovery
Synthetic Biology
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Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
8
+5 posted in 30 days
Backers
5
Wing Venture Capital, Andreessen Horowitz
Momentum
40/100
hiring for its size, in the news
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Mar 20
On the Hacker News front page Fermented foods shaped human biology · 115 points
Oct 12, 2025
On the Hacker News front page A liver transplant from start to finish · 127 points
Jan 3, 2024
On the Hacker News front page Making the Micropipette · 147 points
2017
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.35%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
76
best: 147 points
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
Wing Venture Capital 
Andreessen Horowitz 
DCVC 
K5 Global 
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News
Isaac Asimov Showed Us How to Avoid the AI Apocalypse
In Isaac Asimov's 1942 story Runaround, a robot named SPD-13 (Speedy) malfunctions while on a critical mission to save his human operators from roasting to death under the planet Mercury's relentless sun. Speedy is tasked with bringing them some selenium,
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Asimov Announces Cell Line Development Partnership with Sidewinder Therapeutics to Advance 4-Chain Bispecific Antibody for Solid Tumors
BOSTON, Sept. 14, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Asimov, the company building an AI-native synthetic biology platform to advance therapeutic developme...
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Asimov Press is Back
Asimov Press returns with a renewed focus on original reporting, investigations, and thesis-driven philanthropy.
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A Citation to Asimov - Book and Sword
A few times in the past few years, I have felt the need to cite the passage in his memoirs where Isaac Asimov explained...
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Worlds of IF (February 1958) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming
(Contents information excerpted from The Internet Speculative Fiction Database) Art:The Feeling of Power by Virgil Finlay Assassin by Ed Emshwiller The Hero by...
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Kyungdong Pharmaceutical and Asimov Announce Completion of Cell Line Development Campaign for Biosimilar Antibody
BOSTON, Aug. 09, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Kyungdong Pharmaceutical announced that it has successfully completed a cell line development campaign...
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Asimov over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
6
Postings analysed
2
Stack modernity
78/100
Languages
Python
JavaScript
Frameworks & libraries
SQLAlchemy
Databases
BigQuery
Google BigQuery
Developer tools
GraphQL
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$165k
Typical range
$110k – $190k
Open positions
8
8
Jobs
Senior
87.5%
Principal
12.5%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | 7 | $165k | $110k – $181k |
| Principal | 1 | $190k | $190k |
Highest paying role
Principal Scientist, Biologics Cell Line Development
$190k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Asimov
By role, level and city, against the market · 8 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
30/100
Slowing
Open positions
8
1 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
301 days
faster than 6% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Science & Research
83% ▲
Management
17% ▲
Actively hiring for Science & Research (+5 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added Google Workspace to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Boston
Boston
United States
HQ
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8 open roles 6 posted in 90 days 88% engineering 50-200 est. staff $155k Avg Salary
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