Nephrogen
Nephrogen is a biotech company developing curative gene therapies for kidney diseases.
Seed ·
Amount not disclosed in a source on record.
All 2 rounds ↓Signals
Website registeredNov 13, 2015 (11 years old)
Funding rounds
- Seed · amount undisclosed
NNational Kidney Foundation (lead)
Source: kidney.org - Summer 2020
YY Combinator · batch
Source: ycombinator.com - Website created
Founders and team
DM
Demetri M. Co-Founder and CEOLinkedIn · source: foundertrace.comCH
Chang Hong Chief Business Officer
Investors
NNational Kidney Foundationlead investor
SStartX (Stanford-StartX Fund)
TTechstarsaccelerator
YY Combinatoraccelerator
ZZAKA VC
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