# Melonfrost

Startup profile on Capital Atlas: https://capitalatlas.ai/startups/melonfrost

- Industry: Biotechnology
- Headquarters: Brooklyn, US
- Website: www.melonfrost.com
- Total disclosed funding: $6.2M
- Latest round: Seed (Aug 31, 2022)
- Investors on record: 2

## About

Based in New York, US, and founded in 2020, Melonfrost, Inc. provides the next generation of microbes using the power of evolution and machine learning. As of 2023, the company is headed by its CEO Samuel Levin who is a co-founder of the firm too. In January 2023, investors Alexandria Venture Investments and Refactor Capital co-led a USD 7 million Seed funding for Melonfrost, Inc.

The company offers a platform consisting of an evolution reactor, proprietary hardware, and artificial intelligence-based software forming an automated evolution system that creates high-fitness and stable organisms. The firm offering will be applicable in the field of therapeutics, biomaterials, food, and agriculture.

The company plan to use the January 2023 funding to support its thesis about organisms.

## Funding rounds

- Seed, Aug 31, 2022, $6.2M — Alexandria Venture Investments, Refactor Capital

## Investors

- Alexandria Venture Investments (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/alexandria-venture-investments) — Seed
- Refactor Capital (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/refactor-capital) — Seed