Entelexo (YC W21)

Creating a new class of drugs to address incurable autoimmune diseases

https://wefunder.com/entelexo

Total raised on Wefunder: 32890

Total investors: 80

Quick facts

  • >$1M raised to date, plus $310k on the same terms
  • CEO led the 1st clinical trials in the world evaluating exosomes as a treatment for autoimmune disease
  • Targeting 25M affected by immune-mediated diseases in US, equal to ~$150B in medical costs/year
  • Our intellectual property is patent-protected (patent owned by the Company)
  • Raising $2M for pre-clinical product development and IND enabling animal studies

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Entelexo (YC W21)

Creating a new class of drugs to address incurable autoimmune diseases

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Last Funded July 2021

$32,890

raised from 80 investors
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Shu interviewed Entelexo (YC W21) on May 11, 2021. Play Video
Shu Li
CEO and co-founder of Petri-Bio
Strengths
says, "The company is developing exosome technology which has very broad applications. The founding team also has experience in the relevent field and a big network with frontier academic labs."
Advice
says, "Communicating how exosome works and the competitive landscape would be very helpful."

What Investors Say

LEAD INVESTOR
Invested $20,000 this round
I invested in Entelexo because of their ambitious mission to transform the treatment of MS and other incurable autoimmune diseases with a new class of exosome-based drugs. With their novel exosome engineering platform, Entelexo is poised to have the capability to develop therapeutics to target a wide range of autoimmune diseases, opening up a very large and growing addressable market that is clearly underserved by the treatments currently available today. The founding team of Dr. Milad Riazifar, Cameron Taylor, and Todd Schurr is quite strong and a clear fit for this platform and market. Milad led the groundbreaking research and first clinical trials that helped prove the feasibility of using exosomes as therapeutics for autoimmune diseases, and Cameron and Todd bring complementary biomedical and biomanufacturing engineering expertise to the team. I’m also impressed by the speed of their execution so far, as it is unusual to see a company at their stage that has already completed initial animal testing for its first candidate. When combined with the capabilities and speed of their predictive product screening platform that leverages diseased patient cells, this positions them to potentially execute on a trajectory that can bring them to the phases of IND enabling animal testing and Phase I clinical trials in an unusually swift timeframe and in a manner that has been materially de-risked from an efficacy standpoint. For these reasons, I’ve invested 2X my typical investment amount as a reflection of my conviction in the company.
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