Meet the 2023 FAST Spring cohort of companies! FAST California provides early-stage first-time founders of disruptive innovative life science technology companies with a customized advisory program to perfect their business models, assess strategic focus, maximize IP and help develop a milestone and scale-up plan to exit. A group of curated advisors, each with deep domain expertise, will work with them over twelve weeks to build a compelling commercialization strategy and prepare them for an Innovation Showcase to a curated audience of potential investors and collaboration partners. The CLS FAST program is open to companies that have no more than 12 employees, have raised less than $5 million, are precommercial, and are developing highly innovative, impactful products.
BCN Biosciences
Pre-IND precision oncology biotech, targeting RAS mutant cancers through the novel mechanism of PTEN restoration.
Flexperc Medical
Full stack percutaneous intervention robot to improve outcome and efficiency.
GelSana Therapeutics, Inc.
We are engineering highly elastic wound dressing hydrogels which can stretch and conform across any wound, reduce inflammation through their polymer chemistry, prevent infection, and have the ability to provide sustained drug delivery over time; all towards providing much needed new solutions for chronic wound healing in particular.
Immunova Therapeutics LLC
Immunova Therapeutics LLC is an early-stage startup company focused on novel therapeutic cancer vaccines, CAR-T and TCR-T cell immunotherapy.
Jaan Biotherapeutics LLC
Jaan Biotherapeutics LLC is a biotechnology company developing first-in-class microRNA targeting treatments for heart diseases
JAL Therapeutics
JAL Therapeutics is a preclinical stage life sciences company, focused on drug development for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease and other chronic conditions.
LEVEL 42 AI, INC
Level 42 AI is introducing easy high performance point-of-need devices that harvest novel data for AI extraction of health information and interpretation for accurate screening, early disease detection, and easy/fast/low-cost diagnostics.
Minutia
Minutia is a next generation cell therapy company dedicated to revolutionizing diabetes treatment through the transplantation of insulin-producing cells combined with nanosensors.
Paramag Biosciences
ParaMag Biosciences is a pre-clinical stage company focused on the discovery and development of novel therapeutics to diagnose and treat Protein Misfolding Diseases.
Scopi Medical
Scopi is a medical technology startup bringing point of care diagnostic imaging to patients and practitioners to address misdiagnosis of rhinosinusitis.
Siege Pharmaceuticals
Siege is developing synthetic sphingolipids that leverage natural programs to fight metabolic disease and cancer.
Synthis Therapeutics
Synthis Therapeutics has developed a first in class, cell targeted TGF-b therapeutic platform to treat cancer and fibrotic diseases.