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Cultivarium
51-200 employees
Non-profit incubator launching Focused Research Organizations
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Boulder, CO, USA
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Employees are preferred to spend significant time working together in person in the Boulder office, but remote or hybrid work is possible with approval.
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- Expertise in biogeochemistry, ocean modeling, software engineering, project management, or data science
- Excited to be involved in the emerging ocean CDR industry
- Deeply curious and love to learn new things
- Collaborative, helpful, open-minded, and willing to listen to others' perspectives
- Open to admitting mistakes
- Tenacious and adaptive problem-solvers
- Looking for a chance to enjoy themselves at work
Convergent Research acts as a non-profit incubator that identifies high-impact scientific or technological fields and launches focused research organizations (FROs) to work on large-scale, coordinated, non-profit projects. It brings together scientific founders and funders to design, launch, and operate these FROs, attracting top talent from academia, industry, and startups. Its products include FROs such as E11 Bio, which develops tools to map brain circuitry, and the Gap Map, a web portal that helps identify gaps in the research landscape. Unlike typical for-profit startups or grant-making programs, Convergent Research fills a structural gap by coordinating philanthropy and research to accelerate progress in critical areas. The company aims to accelerate scientific and technological progress for society by funding, organizing, and operating ambitious, high-impact research programs through its FRO model.
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Grant
Total Funding
$2M
Headquarters
Palo Alto, California
Founded
2021
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Pharma giants like Genentech partner with microbe repositories boosting Cultivarium's open-access model.
- Extremophile enzymes market hits $2.8B by 2028 for sustainable bioprocessing applications.
- NSF SBIR Phase II awards in 2025-2026 fund Cultivarium's nonprofit microbial infrastructure.
What critics are saying
- Convergent Research diverts Schmidt Futures funding to synthetic biology FROs within 12-24 months.
- Ginkgo Bioworks scales microbe engineering 10x faster capturing Cultivarium's licensing deals in 6-12 months.
- Arc Institute's open-source foundry obsoletes Cultivarium's model bankrupting it in 24-36 months.
What makes Cultivarium unique
- Cultivarium develops high-throughput culturing platforms for non-model microbes like archaea and extremophiles.
- Open-source portal indexes 170,000+ strains with protocols for bacteria, fungi, archaea, and protists.
- FRO structure releases free tools and data to democratize access to extraordinary microbes.
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6 month growth
↑ 10%1 year growth
↑ 14%2 year growth
↑ 10%Imprint Labs, a NYC-based research organization, raised $15M in philanthropic funding from backers including Eric and Wendy Schmidt, Convergent Research, Peter Reinhart, and NYCEDC. The funds will be used to advance their work in decoding immune memory to uncover causes of chronic diseases. Led by CEO Beck Brachman, the company focuses on forensic immunology and was incubated by Cornell Tech.
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Convergent Research today announced a new $14 million funding commitment from former Google CEO Eric Schmidt to Forest Neurotech, an initiative designed to create next-generation brain-computer-interfaces (BCIs) for individuals with neurological injuries or diseases. In addition to support from Eric Schmidt, Forest Neurotech has received funding from Griffin Catalyst, the philanthropic organization of Citadel CEO Kenneth C. Griffin, the Riley Susan Bechtel Foundation, and James Fickel. Forest Neurotech is developing a novel ultrasound-based BCI that can sense and modulate the whole brain without penetrating it. Most BCIs rely on invasive procedures that access a limited region of the brain while damaging brain tissue and causing harmful biological responses. Forest’s ultrasound technology reaches deep into the brain, providing researchers with a minimally invasive platform to develop diagnostics, monitoring, and therapeutics across the whole brain
Our mission is to make the world a better place through the advancement of scientific knowledge.
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