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Pharmacelera

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Blurb

Quantum-Mechanics (QM) and Machine Learning (ML) Drug Discovery

HQ Location

Barcelona (Spain)

Founded

2015

Employees

11 - 50

Total funding raised

$4.04M

Last Funding Event

Seed, $1.74M, April 1, 2023

Smart insights

  • Catherine Msc (Chief People Officer) worked at Lilium as Head of People Business Partnering for 1.5 years (2021 - 2022)
  • Val Miftakhov (Founder & CEO) worked at Google in various roles, including Head of R&D, Google for Work Incubation, for a total of 4 years (2012 - 2016)
  • 6m headcount growth: 25%
  • 1Y headcount growth: 94%
  • Headcount-to-last-round ratio: 5.3 employees/$M

Developer of a drug discovery platform designed to explore large and diverse chemical spaces. The company's platform uses a 3D representation of molecules based on electrostatic, steric and hydrophobic interaction fields derived from semi-empirical quantum-mechanics calculations, enabling bioinformaticians and medicinal chemists to obtain results using benchmarked technology and boost their drug discovery projects.