NewLimit

Aims to increase each person's healthy years by epigenetically reprogramming cells.

About

Founded

2021

Headquarters

South San Francisco, California

Industry

Biotech

Company Description

NewLimit is a biotechnology company working to radically extend human healthspan. We’re developing medicines to treat age-related diseases by reprogramming the epigenome, a new therapeutic mechanism to restore regenerative potential in aged and diseased cells. We leverage functional genomics, pooled perturbation screening, and machine learning models to unravel the biology of epigenetic aging and disease using experiments of unprecedented scale.

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Funding

Total Raised

$40 million

Valuation

Undisclosed

Significant Investors

Founders Fund, Elad Gil, Kleiner Perkins, Dimension Capital

Company Traction

  • In April 2023, NewLimit completed its first partial reprogramming screen in human T cells from healthy young and old donors.
  • In February 2023, NewLimit made several improvements to its Delivery Engine, and it’s now  >100X more efficient than its initial manufacturing runs in 2022.

Leadership Team

  • Blake Byers: Co-Founder of NewLimit. Former General Partner at GV.
  • Gregory Johnson: Co-Founder & Head of Machine Learning of NewLimit. Former Senior Applied Machine Learning Scientist at Amazon.
  • Jacob Kimmel: Co-Founder & Head of Research of NewLimit. Former Principal Investigator at Calico Life Sciences.
  • Burak Dura: Principal Scientist at NewLimit. Former Senior Engineer II at Inscripta.