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News
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People
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Offices
Jobs
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Funding and backers

Total raised
$28M
1 round on record
Latest round
$28M
Series A · Jun 2022 · 4 yr ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
20
+10 posted in 30 days
Backers
2
Coatue, Hummingbird Ventures
The money's age
Long since its last round
52 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
35/100
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
Jun 27, 2022 Launched LatchBio Unveils Cloud Bioinformatics Platform · Just Style Jun 1, 2022 Raised a round Series A $28M 2021 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.81%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
9
best: 7 points
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Series A Jun 2022 $28M — businesswire.com
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How LatchBio hires

Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%

LatchBio scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 6 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 100% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Visa sponsorship

  • United States · H-1B filings in 12 months: 5

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Overview

LatchBio is a cloud platform for biological data, giving scientists a place to store sequencing results and run analysis pipelines without managing servers. Bioinformaticians publish workflows that bench scientists can then run through a simple interface. Biotechnology companies use it to standardise how experimental data is processed.

News

News blog.latch.bio 1 month ago
Testing Grok 4.6's Enhanced Biology Safeguards
Analyzing performance of the new safeguards across our benchmark suite
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News blog.latch.bio 12 months ago
Agents for Spatial Biology
Tailored to Vizgen, 10X, AtlasXOmics, Takara. Powered by Anthropic.
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News blog.latch.bio 2 years ago
Engineering Plastic-Degrading Enzymes and PCSK9 Binders with Protein AI Tools
A protein engineering toolkit for molecular design // Engineering enzymes to break down plastic with ProtGPT2, OmegaFold, TemStaPro // Designing drugs with RFDiffusion, ProteinMPNN, ColabFold
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News blog.latch.bio 2 years ago
Modern Infrastructure for Bulk RNA-seq
structured metadata capture, hosted nf-core/rnaseq, programmable dashboards to discover genes + function, collaborative Jupyter / RStudio environments, Illumina + AWS + GCP integrations
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News The San Francisco Standard 2 years ago
This San Francisco startup is mandating an in-person, six-day workweek
LatchBio is bucking the trend of shorter schedules by requiring employees to come into the company's Mission Bay HQ Monday through Saturday.
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News blog.latch.bio 2 years ago
Scientific leadership should be responsible for data platforms
The CSO should drive the deployment and regular use of data platforms within a biotech organization rather than a distinct engineering lead.
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News blog.latch.bio 3 years ago
Latch Registry: An integrated database for multi-omics
A unified multi-omics database supercharge collaboration between the wet and dry lab
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News blog.latch.bio 3 years ago
Native Snakemake Support on LatchBio
Bioinformatics in Python on the Cloud for Biology
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at LatchBio over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
29
Postings analysed
19
Stack modernity
90/100AI adopter
Languages
Python32%
TypeScript11%
Go5%
JavaScript5%
Frameworks & libraries
Haystack5%
React.js5%
Databases
Oracle5%
Cloud & platforms
Anthropic16%
AWS11%
GCP11%
Figma5%
AI & ML
Claude32%
Grok16%
LLM5%
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Full LatchBio tech stack 29 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$200k
Typical range
$160k – $250k
Open positions
15
3 Jobs
Middle 66.7%
Staff 33.3%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Middle 2 $215k $180k – $250k
Staff 1 $160k $160k
Highest paying role Software Engineer, Infrastructure $250k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at LatchBio By role, level and city, against the market · 15 jobs with pay

Growth

Hiring Momentum
73/100
Growing
Open positions
20
8 opened / 1 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
76 days
faster than 17% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
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.
Biotech
20% ▼
AI/ML
13% ▼
DevOps
13% ▲
Science & Research
13% ▲
Industrial Engineering
13% ▼
Product
7% ▲
Activity Timeline
Added Figma to stack Oct 2026
Added Grok to stack Oct 2026
Added Claude to stack Oct 2026
Added Anthropic to stack Oct 2026
Added LLM to stack Oct 2026
Added Go to stack Oct 2026
Added Docker to stack Oct 2026
Added CI/CD to stack Oct 2026
Added Oracle to stack Sep 2026
Added Haystack to stack Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
San Francisco
San Francisco United States
HQ
20 open roles 15 posted in 90 days 45% engineering 50-200 est. staff $201k Avg Salary
hires for Science & Research, Biotech, AI/ML
185 Berry Street
seen since Jul 2026 job postings

Jobs

$120k – $180k per year • In office • Full-Time • PhD • San Francisco
Python
Cursor
Claude
AI Agents
Structured Outputs
Life Sciences
Mass Spectrometry
Antibody Engineering
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$120k – $180k per year • In office • Full-Time • PhD • San Francisco
Python
Cursor
Claude
AI Agents
Apply
≈ $95k – $253k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • PhD • San Francisco
Apply
≈ $194k – $390k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco
Claude
Grok
Anthropic
Interpretability
Apply
$140k – $200k per year • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco
Claude
Grok
Anthropic
Interpretability
Design
Figma
Apply
$140k – $200k per year • In office • Full-Time • PhD • San Francisco
Claude
Grok
Anthropic
Interpretability
Apply
$170k – $250k per year • In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • San Francisco
Python
Go
TypeScript
AI Agents
LLM
Interpretability
DevOps
GCP
CI/CD
AWS
Docker
Apply
$150k – $210k per year • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco
Python
Interpretability
DevOps
GCP
AWS
GitHub
IAM
VPN
Cybersecurity
SOC 2
Least Privilege
Management
Scrum
Apply
$160k – $200k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco
JavaScript
TypeScript
AI Agents
Frontend
React.js
Apply
$120k – $180k per year • In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Master's Degree • San Francisco
Python
AI Agents
Apply
In office • Full-Time • San Francisco
AI Agents
Apply
$180k – $250k per year • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco
Interpretability
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Financials

Total raised
$28M
Latest round
Series A
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Series A 2022 $28M Details