Evolution is the most powerful designer of organisms. We are building the world’s first evolutionary prediction engine. Our groundbreaking evolution steering platform is powering the bioeconomy.
The Melonfrost platform consists of the Evolution Reactor, our proprietary hardware, and Maia, our proprietary AI powered software.
Together they form the world’s first closed loop automated evolution system.
Technology
The Evolution Reactor cultivates thousands of independent populations, measuring phenotypes and applying selection pressures in parallel.
Maia learns how organisms evolve in response to selection pressures, and guides the Evolution Reactor by applying new pressures - steering organismal evolution in real time without knowing anything about their genetics.
Our platform significantly reduces the time and number of iterations traditionally needed to optimize traits and yield commercially viable organisms.
Team
Sam and Loren went to pre-school together. Two decades later, when Sam was at Oxford and Loren was at Stanford, they hatched an idea for a new way to modify organisms. With the help of two other childhood friends, they created Melonfrost.
Sam did his PhD on the origin of life at Oxford.
Loren designed electromechanical systems and reinforcement learning algorithms at Stanford.
Luc studied international conflict at LSE, and has managed both digital and physical infrastructure projects for fortune 500 companies.
Sasen is a McGill trained pharmacologist, whose experience ranges from developing targeted viruses for Alzheimer's to establishing covid antigen assays.
John has over 20 scientific publications, and has worked at Georgia Tech, Emory, and the Craig Venter institute.
Raman completed his PhD at Cambridge University and a postdoc at MIT where he worked on optimizing fitness landscapes for vaccine design.
Pierre completed his PhD in computational neuroscience and postdocs at Mount Sinai and NYU where he used machine learning to analyze and model the brain.
After getting his degree in Biomedical Engineering and Computer Science from Case Western Reserve University, Tony spent 7 years developing state of the art software tools for Philips Healthcare.
Hannah is a Software Engineer with a degree in data science from University of Vermont.
Lizzie studied mechanical engineering at Columbia with an emphasis in robotics & biological systems.
Jared is a Columbia-trained mechanical engineer and roboticist whose experience includes developing hardware products to combat COVID-19 and designing automated indoor farm systems with a focus on in-farm robotics.
Ryan is an Embedded Systems Engineer with an Electrical Engineering Degree from CCNY. He specializes in IoT controls and sensing electronics.
Sean spent years traveling the globe teaching English, roofing, writing freelance, and working service. He is an avid boxer and Grandmaster Risk player.
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