Conception
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Fertility & IVF
Cell & Gene Therapy
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$50k
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$50k
Venture round · Feb 2024 · 2 yr ago
Team
11-50
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
4
open roles
Backers
3
Compound, Meta Planet
The money's age
Long since its last round
32 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
0/100
no fresh signals
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Jul 1
On the Hacker News front page The first early human eggs from stem cells · 178 points
Feb 19, 2024
Raised a round Venture round $50k · SEC Form D
Oct 15, 2018
Took on debt financing $2.8M · SEC Form D
2018
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 6%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
3
best: 178 points
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Feb 2024 | $50k | — | SEC Form D |
| Debt Financing | Oct 2018 | $2.8M | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | CONCEPTION HOLDINGS, INC. | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Kevin BrooksExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Bruce VosburgExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Ralph RischExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
Compound 
Meta Planet 
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Overview
Conception combines stem cell biology and engineering to create new possibilities for having children.
News
The Download: a donor conception cap and world models for AI
Apple has sued OpenAI for allegedly stealing trade secrets.
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Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship, rejecting Trump's restrictions
The Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship as is, rejecting President Donald Trump's order that children born to parents who are in the U.S. illegally or temporarily are not American citizens.
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The first early human eggs from stem cells - Conception Advancing the Future of Fertility
A look inside the biology, engineering, and validation behind a major scientific milestone.
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After 18 Years of Infertility, an AI Tool Let a Couple Conceive - and Could Help Thousands More
STAR, a new AI fertility tool developed by Dr. Zev Williams, has helped a couple who struggled to conceive for 18 years get pregnant.
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TETRIS: 1984 is the date of conception (1989) IGetInfo
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New Bambu Lab Firmware Update Adds Mandatory Authorization Control System
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Conception over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
4
Postings analysed
2
Stack modernity
58/100
Practices & domains
Flow Cytometry
Cell Culture
Single-Cell Sequencing
qPCR
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People
Kevin Brooks
Executive Officer, Director
Bruce Vosburg
Executive Officer, Director
Ralph Risch
Executive Officer, Director
Will Muecke
Director
Kevin Albert
Director
Dov Szapiro
Director
Brad Baran
Director
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
23/100
Hiring freeze
Open positions
4
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
72 days
faster than 17% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 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
33% ▼
Field & Service
33% ▼
Biotech
33% ▼
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
1
Countries
2
Busiest office
Berkeley
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Vancouver
Canada
HQ
Berkeley
United States
Engineering / R&D
5 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 80% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for Science & Research, Biotech
Jobs
≈ $112k – $257k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · PhD · Berkeley
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≈ $60k – $126k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · Bachelor's Degree · Berkeley
Flow Cytometry
Cell Culture
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≈ $100k – $197k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · PhD · Berkeley
qPCR
Flow Cytometry
Single-Cell Sequencing
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≈ $96k – $191k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · 3+ years exp · PhD · Berkeley
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