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Perlara (YC W16) — Perlara: building the YC for rare disease parents

Perlara appears in Y Combinator's company directory in the Winter 2016 batch, listed 2016-01-05. Perlara: building the YC for rare disease parents.

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Perlara: Accepted into Y Combinator Winter 2016

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Winter 2016
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1
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Early
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United States of America
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Perlara 1.0 (Feb 2014 - Feb 2019) launched early R&D joint ventures called PerlQuests with highly motivated rare disease families, companies or impact investors. We screened gene-edited patient avatars for repurposable drugs in order to build a predictive R&D engine called ArkBase. We planned to monetize programs based on ArkBase predictions by selectively spinning out asset-centric clinical development NewCos. Perlara 1.5 (March 2019 - April 2020) was the transition to a one-person virtual clinical development company and when the epalrestat and aripiprazole repurposing trials were launched at Mayo Clinic for the treatment of PMM2-CDG and NGLY1-CDDG, respectively. Perlara 2.0 (May 2020 --> The first decentralized and distributed biotech

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BatchWinter 2016
Announced2016-01-05
StageEarly
StatusActive
Team size1
IndustryHealthcare
Sub-industryHealthcare -> Drug Discovery and Delivery
RegionsUnited States of America, America / Canada, Remote, Fully Remote
BasedSan Francisco, CA, USA; Oakland, CA, USA; Remote
HiringNo
Sitehttp://perlara.com
Previously known asPerlstein Lab PBC

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