YC Companies Responds to COVID-19 SOSV Startups on the Frontlines of the Fight Against the Coronavirus

We cannot sit still and wait for death. We must act extremely quickly.

Today, SOSV announced that we are providing millions of dollars in additional immediate funding to life sciences entrepreneurs working on novel solutions to the COVID-19 pandemic (IndieBio will fund up to eight over the next six weeks COVID-19 startups).

We have teams and staff in place who are working tirelessly to help. Scientists, doctors, entrepreneurs, investors. What’s more, we’ve supported hundreds of deep tech startups over the past eight years who are turning their sights on COVID-19.

We are helping them meet their challenges with necessary emergency funding. We may invest approximately $10 million in response to COVID-19 in the coming months, and investors in our syndicate may invest an additional $50 million.

Startups are already battling the virus.

A dozen startups in our portfolio are literally on the front lines of the COVID-19 response, working on diagnostics, treatments, prevention and disinfection technologies, test automation, and some just improving the daily lives of those trapped at home. Here’s a quick look at some of them:

• renegade bio将 CDC COVID-19 测试的 4 个步骤减少到 1 个，从而减少了 2 个小时的测试过程，将成本降低了一半，并将 qPCR 测试的通量提高了 4 倍。
• CAS PR.bio正急于推出一种基于“Crispr Cas12”的诊断测试，该测试足够便宜且易于操作，适合办公室或家庭使用，并可在 1 小时内报告结果。
• verX开发了一种纳米纤维材料，可为护理人员制造更透气、更安全的口罩。
• OACP的试剂比美国 FDA/CDC 试剂快 20%，价格便宜，而且数量充足。
• open TR ONS拥有一款适用于中小型实验室的液体处理机器人，可以自动执行测试，以便每天在任何地方的医院进行数千次测试。
• you i bot拥有消毒和检查机器人，可以部署在公共区域或工作场所。
• str ADO is提供了一种慢性阻塞性肺病反馈监测系统，能够自动向医生报告异常的肺部活动。

Through our accelerator programs – HAX, IndieBio, Chinaccelerator, MOX, Food-X and dlab – we support passionate entrepreneurs who want to make the world a better place. We are deeply grateful for their efforts, their ingenuity, and the dedication in their hearts to solve some of the world's most difficult and pressing problems.

If you or someone you know needs funding for a life sciences startup providing COVID-19 solutions, apply by April 10 at indiebio.co/indiebio-covid-response.

Through IndieBio, we support entrepreneurs who want to use biological technologies to solve humanity's biggest and most pressing problems. Now, let's keep working together to find solutions.