Kernal Biologics vs Superluminal Medicines
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AI-designed mRNA 2.0 therapeutics for in vivo CAR-T cancer and autoimmune therapy; $35.8M raised with Amgen Ventures backing advancing KR-335 toward IND filing.
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Kernal Biologics is a clinical-stage biotech developing AI-designed mRNA therapeutics for cancer and autoimmune diseases — using machine learning to engineer cell-type-specific mRNA sequences that direct therapeutic payloads (including CAR-T gene programs) to the right cells in vivo, enabling off-the-shelf CAR-T cancer therapy without the individualized cell extraction and ex vivo manufacturing process that makes current CAR-T treatments cost $400,000+ and require weeks of production time. The Y Combinator-backed company has raised $35.8 million including a $25 million Series A led by Hummingbird Ventures with participation from Amgen Ventures.
Boston AI GPCR drug discovery with $1.3B Eli Lilly collaboration Aug 2025 for obesity/cardiometabolic; $158M total ($120M RA Capital/Insight/NVIDIA/Lilly Series A Sep 2024) with MC4R obesity program advancing to IND competing with Relay Therapeutics.
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Superluminal Medicines is a Boston-based biotechnology company — backed with approximately $158 million in total funding including a $33 million seed in 2023 and a $120 million Series A in September 2024 led by RA Capital Management with Insight Partners, NVIDIA's NVentures, and Eli Lilly — developing AI-driven small molecule drugs targeting G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), combining artificial intelligence, protein dynamics simulation, and structural biology to discover drugs for 70% of GPCRs that currently remain "undruggable" despite GPCRs representing the target class for approximately 35% of all FDA-approved drugs. In August 2025, Superluminal secured a landmark $1.3 billion collaboration agreement with Eli Lilly to discover small molecule therapeutics for obesity and cardiometabolic diseases, and is advancing its lead internal MC4R agonist program (for obesity treatment) toward IND-enabling studies with human trials expected Q4 2026. Founded in 2022.
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