Cradle

We provide an AI-guided protein discovery platform that uses artificial intelligence to generate and improve protein candidates. Our platform learns from experimental data to accelerate protein engineering, allowing for faster development with fewer experiments.

Users can generate candidates, review reports, and manage experimental data, overseeing the process from candidate generation to experimental results. We design our platform to optimize multiple protein properties at once, such as activity, binding, stability, expression, secretability, structure, solubility, and metabolic engineering.

We support various protein types, including antibodies, enzymes, vaccines, and peptides. Companies like IFF, Johnson & Johnson, and Novo Nordisk use our platform to accelerate R&D in pharmaceuticals, industrial biotechnology, and foodtech, creating new therapeutics, agricultural solutions, and food ingredients. Teams using our platform report 2-12 times faster development.

Founded in 2021, we are a biotechnology company with 51-200 employees. We run an internal wet lab in Amsterdam to validate our models and ensure reliable performance without using customer-proprietary data.

Our mission is to make biology programmable. We are using advancements in AI to help scientists understand and modify biology, enabling the creation of new food sources, materials, and therapeutics.

Our team includes experts in biology, design, engineering, and machine learning, many with experience from companies like Google, DeepMind, Novartis, Uber, Zymergen, Twist, Booking, and Stripe. We have offices in Amsterdam and Zurich, and teams in Boston and California to work closely with our US customers. Our Amsterdam office also has a lab for internal projects and model validation.

We prioritize a culture where everyone can do their best work. We are committed to data privacy and security, ensuring customer sequences and data stay private, secure, and are never used to train models for others. Our platform is SOC 2 compliant, includes single sign-on, supports custom predictors, provides a zero-maintenance AI infrastructure, and offers dedicated support from our scientists and machine learning experts.

We offer competitive salaries, a generous equity stake for full-time employees, comprehensive benefits, and clear opportunities for career growth.