Terray Therapeutics

Terray Therapeutics

AI-guided small molecule drug discovery

Overview

Terray Therapeutics focuses on discovering and developing small molecule drugs by combining wet-lab experiments with AI-driven methods. It builds a large, high-quality dataset of target-ligand binding measurements—over two billion data points, with about 150 million new measurements added each month—and uses deep learning to predict molecular properties. The company follows a rapid, design-make-test-analyze cycle that takes less than a month per target, allowing it to explore chemical space and experimentally measure millions of molecules at once to find potent, selective compounds. Although immunology is the primary focus, Terray also collaborates with big pharma and biotech partners to apply its platform to a wide range of targets and diseases. Its goal is to accelerate small molecule drug discovery by tightly integrating data, AI, and wet-lab science, delivering new therapies more quickly through internal programs and partnerships.

About Terray Therapeutics

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Why Terray Therapeutics is rated
B-
Rated B on Competitive Edge
Rated B on Growth Potential
Rated C on Differentiation

Industries

Data & Analytics

AI & Machine Learning

Biotechnology

Healthcare

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Series B

Total Funding

$195M

Headquarters

Pasadena, California

Founded

2018

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What believers are saying

  • Lisa Decker joined June 2026 to accelerate partnerships and deal execution.
  • TerraBind launched February 2026 with 20% higher accuracy and 96% lower inference cost.
  • The 2024 $120 million Series B funded internal immunology and partnered programs.

What critics are saying

  • Terray still lacks a disclosed clinical-stage asset, despite 2026 clinic ambitions.
  • Partner economics remain undisclosed, leaving revenue quality and dilution risk opaque.
  • Biofounding platform dependence creates existential risk if EMMI stops outperforming rivals.

What makes Terray Therapeutics unique

  • EMMI couples proprietary wet-lab data with AI, not software-only modeling.
  • Terray reported 14 billion target-molecule measurements and 26x faster TerraBind inference.
  • Calico, Bristol Myers Squibb, Gilead, and Odyssey validate platform breadth.

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Funding

Total Funding

$195M

Above

Industry Average

Funded Over

3 Rounds

Series B funding is typically for startups that have proven their business model and need more funding to expand rapidly—often by entering new markets or adding more products. Investors are usually venture capital firms that specialize in later-stage investments.
Series B Funding Comparison
Above Average

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Terray Therapeutics

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

0%

1 year growth

0%

2 year growth

1%
Business Wire
Jun 15th, 2026
Terray Therapeutics names Lisa L. Decker as chief business officer to drive partnerships

Terray Therapeutics has appointed Lisa L. Decker, Ph.D., as Chief Business Officer. Decker brings over 20 years of biotechnology leadership and business development experience to the role, where she will lead the company's business development strategy. Decker was most recently Chief Business Officer at IGM Biosciences and previously held the same role at Atreca, Inc. She also served on the board of directors of Chimerix until its acquisition by Jazz Pharmaceuticals in 2025. Terray's EMMI platform combines proprietary data with AI to identify and optimise medicines. The Los Angeles-based company is developing small-molecule medicines for an internal immunology pipeline and working with pharmaceutical partners across multiple therapeutic areas. CEO Jacob Berlin said EMMI should enable multiple clinical entries in coming years.

Business Wire
Feb 12th, 2026
Terray's TerraBind AI model achieves 20% higher accuracy than rivals, runs 26x faster

Terray Therapeutics has launched EMMI Predict: TerraBind, a universal potency prediction model that achieves 20% higher accuracy than leading open-source models whilst running 26 times faster, reducing inference costs by 96%. The model supports Terray's drug discovery platform, which combines experimentation with machine intelligence. TerraBind uses coarse-grained structural representations instead of computationally intensive diffusion processes, eliminating the diffusion module entirely whilst maintaining accuracy. In benchmarks, TerraBind outperformed Boltz-2 with 16% higher Pearson correlation on CASP16 and 20% better performance across 18 internal drug discovery targets. The model leverages Terray's dataset of 14 billion unique target-molecule measurements. Terray has raised $295 million and collaborates with Bristol Myers Squibb, Gilead and Odyssey Therapeutics on drug development programmes.

Business Wire
Sep 23rd, 2025
Terray Therapeutics Expands Board of Directors with Appointment of Biotechnology Leader Wendy Young, Ph.D.

Terray Therapeutics expands Board of Directors with appointment of biotechnology leader Wendy Young, Ph.D.

BioSpace
Apr 8th, 2025
Terray Therapeutics Appoints Elliott Levy, MD, to Scientific Advisory Board

Terray Therapeutics appoints Elliott Levy, MD, to Scientific Advisory Board.

Pharmaceutical Technology
Dec 18th, 2024
Gilead and Terray link to develop small-molecule therapies

Gilead Sciences has entered a strategic partnership with Terray Therapeutics for the discovery and development of small-molecule therapies across several targets.

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