Immuno-oncology pioneer Dr. Stanley Riddell joins Ozette’s Board of Directors.
We are honored to welcome world-renowned physician scientist and immuno-oncology pioneer Dr. Stanley Riddell to our Board of Directors. Dr. Riddell was the founding scientific director of the Immunotherapy Integrated Research Center at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center and leads an innovative translational research program that has led to the first adoption of immunotherapies. He co-founded transformative biopharmaceutical companies including Juno Therapeutics (acquired by Celgene in 2018) and Lyell Immunopharma (IPO 2021).
“Ozette eliminates bottlenecks in immunotherapy research and development, accelerating the newest generation of therapies that harness the power of the immune system to treat disease. The computational and machine learning methods being developed at Ozette unlock insights across oncology, autoimmune disorders, and infectious diseases that cannot be otherwise surfaced using traditional approaches,” said Dr. Riddell. “I’m thrilled to join the Ozette team on their board as they pioneer and transform a space that is ripe for innovations.”
Ozette’s Corrie Ortega featured on Women Who Lead Biotech Panel.
Puget Sound Business Journal convened top executives in biotech to discuss the Pacific Northwest life sciences landscape, from the latest science in the pipeline, to growth strategies for the next generation of women in leadership. Leaders from Just-Evotec Biologics, Phase Genomics, SEngine Precision Medicine, and Ozette’s very own VP of Operations and Product, Corrie Ortega, shared their career insights gained along their journey from the bench to the boardroom.
BioTech Breakthrough recognizes Ozette as the 2022 overall immunology Company of the Year.
We’re honored to be named the 2022 Overall Immunology Company of the Year by BioTech Breakthrough. Ozette’s computational immune profiling tech breaks through complex, highly dimensional datasets to revolutionize our understanding of the human immune system. BioTech Breakthrough recognizes Ozette for accelerating scientific collaboration with automated and interpretable single-cell analysis at unprecedented speed, dimensionality, and annotation depth to capture the full value of single-cell immune data.
Ozette announces $26MM in series A funding.
Ozette, a technology-driven life sciences startup engineering a transformative leap in cell discovery and annotation of the human immune system, today announced its $26MM Series A funding, led by Madrona Ventures. Other participating investors include Cercano Management (formerly Vulcan Capital), M12, Microsoft’s venture fund, Alexandria Venture Investments, OCV Partners and Duke University.
CZI announces project with Ozette co-founder.
We’re proud to announce Ozette co-founder and Scientific Advisor Dr. Raphael Gotardo’s role as principal investigator for The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative project to decode single-cell CITE-seq data, co-led by associate professor at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Dr. Evan Newell.
Ozette named one of the 21 most promising healthtech startups of 2022.
Business Insider features Ozette as one of the 21 most promising healthtech startups, along with Solv, Truepill and WELL Health, as ranked by VCs. Haomiao Huang at Kleiner Perkins nominated Ozette, noting that, “Ozette’s AI-driven solution has been succeeding in turning these high-dimensional problems in immune profiling into solvable and usable building blocks for drug development and scientific research.” Click through to Business Insider to read the full list, available with subscription.
AI for immune data.
Hear Ozette co-founder and CTO Greg Finak discuss how we leverage machine learning in next generation high-resolution immune profiling.
Ozette raises 6M seed.
Fred Hutch spin out Ozette, raises 6M in seed funding to develop its AI powered immune monitoring platform in a round led by Madrona Venture Group. Ozette’s raise will fund team growth and technology development.