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News
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Products
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Funding and backers

Total raised
$2M
1 round on record
Latest round
$2M
Convertible Note · Mar 2025 · 18 mo ago
Team
1-10
employees, estimated range
Backers
1
Draper Associates
The money's age
Due for its next round
18 months since the last round · not hiring
Momentum
0/100
no fresh signals
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Convertible Note Mar 2025 $2M — SEC Form D
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
Legal entity Fauna Systems Inc. sec
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Randy CastlemanExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Naimish PatelExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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Overview

Programmable biobots for tasks that conventional systems can.

News

News Nature 3 years ago
Synthetic morphology with agential materials
Bioengineering can address many important needs, from transformative biomedicine to environmental remediation. In addition to practical applications, the construction of new living systems will increase our understanding of biology and will nurture emergi
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News Nature 6 years ago
Applications and ethics of computer-designed organisms
Computer-designed organisms - biobots, such as xenobots - are at the intersection of synthetic developmental biology and machine learning. This technology, which enables the evolution of real, living forms to take place in a virtual world, is part of an e
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Podcast eagleman.com
Might we be surrounded with undetected minds? (with Michael Levin) Podcast
What is intelligence? If we look hard, can we find it in unexpected places: not just in brains but in all kinds of structures? How should we recognize it? And what does any of this have to do with a bipedal dog born without front legs, or making small new
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People

Randy Castleman
Executive Officer, Director
Naimish Patel
Executive Officer, Director
Eugene Durenard
Director
Joshua Bongard
Director
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Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
New York United States
HQ
1-10 est. staff

Financials

Total raised
$2M
Latest round
Convertible Note
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Convertible Note 2025 $2M Details