Tech Company Financing Transactions
Pumpkinseed Funding Round
Pumpkinseed, based in Palo Alto, secured $20 million in investment from Future Ventures, NFX and Analog Devices.
Transaction Overview
Company Name
Announced On
5/5/2026
Transaction Type
Venture Equity
Amount
$20,000,000
Round
Series A
Investors
Future Ventures (Lead Investor) (Maryanna Saenko)
NFX (Lead Investor) (Omri Amirav-Drory)
Proceeds Purpose
The funding will accelerate Pumpkinseed's proprietary deSIPHR platform from peptide to full-length protein sequencing, expand biopharma and biosecurity partnerships, and advance the AI models being built on its proteomic datasets.
Company Information
Company Status
Private & Independent
Industry
Biopharmaceutical
Mailing Address
380 Portage Ave
Palo Alto, CA 94306
USA
Palo Alto, CA 94306
USA
Phone
Undisclosed
Website
Email Address
Overview
Pumpkinseed grew out of Stanford, where nanophotonics, biochemistry, and machine learning converged around a shared conviction: that the frontiers of biology aren't limited by wet-lab capability or even compute, but by actionable information density -- how much biology you can read, per cell per dollar. That insight pointed to a gap: no existing platform was designed around that constraint. So the founding team built one.
Profile
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Management Team
Title
Name
Email & Social
Chief Scientific Officer
Jack Hu
Chief Technical Officer
Nhat Vu
Co-Founder
Jen Dionne
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