HeartBeat.bio is a Vienna-based biotech developing a human organoid cultivation, screening and AI-supported data analysis solution for cardiac drug development. Its cardioid drug discovery platform relies on self-assembling, highly reproducible cardiac organoids that recapitulate human physiology and enable modeling of heart diseases not achieved with other in-vitro systems. The company is currently focused on drug-induced and various subtypes of genetic cardiomyopathies, with additional programs planned in diabetic cardiomyopathy, myocardial infarction and cardiac remodeling/fibrosis. Led by CEO Michael Krebs, HeartBeat.bio intends to use the funds to complete its cardioid platform for proprietary and collaborative drug discovery programs. Financially, the company closed a €4.5M Pre-Series A round. The platform combines organoid biology and AI-enabled data analysis to accelerate development of therapeutics for heart failure and related indications. HeartBeat.bio is a Vienna, Austria-based spin-off of the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (IMBA) developing a high-throughput 3D screening platform for heart diseases using self-organizing human cardiac organoids called Cardioids. The Cardioid technology, invented by the Mendjan lab at IMBA, enables automated, reproducible, and cost-effective large-scale generation and analysis of cardiac organoids suitable for high-throughput compound screening. The company intends to use the €1.5m seed financing to establish operations, build an experienced team over the next 12 months, and develop Cardioid into a platform solution for compound screening. Its drug discovery program will focus on heart failure, cardiomyopathies, and cardiotoxicity studies for new drug candidates. HeartBeat.bio has signed an exclusive license and collaboration agreement with IMBA and will closely cooperate with Sasha Mendjan's research group to further develop the technology. The company has also received financial support from AWS via the AWS Pre-Seed Program and from Vienna's INiTS AplusB Scaleup Program.

Total raised

$7M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Series A

Latest activity

Nov 2023