Berkeley Lights

Berkeley Lights

Automated optofluidics platform for cell analysis

Overview

Berkeley Lights provides an integrated platform for accelerating cell-based research in biopharmaceuticals, cellular therapy, and genomics. The core product, the Berkeley Lights Platform, combines OptoSelect consumables, automation hardware, and application software to enable high-throughput single-cell analysis. It uses optofluidics, which uses light and fluidics to manipulate and profile thousands of cells in parallel, delivering detailed cell data. The company differentiates itself with an end-to-end solution that tightly integrates hardware, consumables, and software to speed up discovery and development of therapies, with a goal of helping customers achieve faster, more accurate results.

About Berkeley Lights

Simplify's Rating
Why Berkeley Lights is rated
B-
Rated B on Competitive Edge
Rated B on Growth Potential
Rated C on Differentiation

Industries

Robotics & Automation

Enterprise Software

Biotechnology

Healthcare

Company Size

11-50

Company Stage

Debt Financing

Total Funding

$520.5M

Headquarters

Emeryville, California

Founded

2023

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Beacon Select launch in January 2023 targets $2.8B cell line development market.
  • Rabbit Memory B Cell workflow from November 2022 accesses novel antibody biodiversity.
  • Consumables like OptoSelect chips generate 70%+ gross margin recurring revenue.

What critics are saying

  • IsoPlexis integration causes 20-30% sales drop from platform overlap in 3-6 months.
  • 10x Genomics' Chromium captures 70% single-cell market, sidelining optofluidics in 12-24 months.
  • NVIDIA BioNeMo AI obsoletes Beacon chips as pharma adopts cloud simulation in 18-24 months.

What makes Berkeley Lights unique

  • Optofluidics technology enables precise manipulation of thousands of single cells simultaneously.
  • Integration with IsoPlexis' proteomics forms unique multi-omics functional cell biology platform.
  • Beacon platform recovers live cells for antibody discovery and cell therapy development.

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Funding

Total Funding

$520.5M

Above

Industry Average

Funded Over

8 Rounds

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Benefits

Generous benefits package

Catered lunch every day!

Breakfast and snack foods

Workout classes with professional trainer

Sit/stand desks

Company social events

Referral bonus program

Paid parking

Free Shuttles from Bart and Walking Distance from Amtrak

Company News

PR Newswire
Mar 21st, 2023
Berkeley Lights Completes Acquisition of IsoPlexis Forming PhenomeX, the Functional Cell Biology Company

/PRNewswire/ -- Berkeley Lights, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLI), a life sciences tools company, today announced that it has completed its previously announced acquisition...

Stockhouse
Jan 9th, 2023
2023-01-09 | NDAQ:BLI | Press Release | Berkeley Lights Inc.

Berkeley Lights, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLI), a life sciences tools company, today announced the launch of the Beacon Select ™, the company's new optofluidic system for cell line development (CLD).

Endpoints News
Dec 5th, 2022
Innoforce opens new manufacturing site in China – Endpoints News

Biology tools company Berkeley Lights will acquire IsoPlexis in a $57.8 million all-stock transaction agreement announced Wednesday.

PR Newswire
Nov 18th, 2022
Berkeley Lights Accelerating Antibody Discovery With Launch Of Rabbit Memory B Cell Workflow

Enables access to a broad range of biodiversity to find unique antibodies against challenging targets. EMERYVILLE, Calif., Nov. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Berkeley Lights, Inc. (NASDAQ: BLI), a leader in digital cell biology, today announced the launch of the Opto® Memory B Discovery Rabbit workflow, expanding the diversity of antibodies customers can discover on the Beacon® platform

BioSpace
Sep 19th, 2022
Berkeley Lights Inc. hired Scott Chaplin as chief legal officer and corporate secretary on Sep 19th 22'.

Berkeley Lights, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLI), a leader in digital cell biology, today announced that Scott Chaplin has been named the Company's chief legal officer and corporate secretary, effective immediately.

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