Portal

United States - Watertown, Massachusetts

• 20/03/2024
• Pre-Seed
• $5,000,000

Portal is a cell engineering platform company focused on enabling next generation cell engineering and cell analytics across research and clinical applications. We are implementing a simplified approach to intracellular delivery, focused on accelerating advances enabled by the new generation of RNA, gene editing, and AI-driven technologies. Portal’s initial product suite is based on a proprietary mechanical delivery system capable of delivering many different types of cargo to a broad range of cell types. The technology's ability to be used stand-alone or as an integrated component of third-party systems provides a significant opportunity to broadly impact the fields of biological research and cellular therapeutics

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Armon Sharei, PhDFounder

United States - Arlington, Massachusetts

Armon Sharei, PhD, is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of SQZ Biotech, a biotechnology company creating innovative treatments by transforming cells into sophisticated therapeutics. Utilizing the proprietary Cell Squeeze® technology to develop a new generation of cell therapies, SQZ is creating powerful, multifunctional cell therapies for a range of diseases, with an initial focus on cancer, infectious disease and autoimmune disease.

Dr. Sharei developed the Cell Squeeze® platform during his PhD work in chemical engineering at MIT.

After his PhD, Dr. Sharei was a Ragon Institute postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard Medical School. He is co-author of 18 peer-reviewed publications and inventor on over 20 patents. In 2013, he founded SQZ Biotech. As a leader, Dr. Sharei’s motivating factor for his company is to simply make the world a better place. Dr. Sharei is driven by the potential global patient impact of the novel cell therapies SQZ can create using its breakthrough technology.

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/armonsharei/