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| Company Name |
BioCOS Life Sciences |
| Founded in |
2008 |
| Headquartered in |
Bangalore |
| Company website/URL |
www.biocosls.com |
| Industry |
Biotech |
| Stage of the company |
Have prototype |
| Source of idea |
Systematic search for business opportunity |
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Today we have started on a winning platform and we hope to achieve those honors and awards soon.
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| Business description |
BioCOS Life Sciences is an R&D company that mainly focuses on providing cost effective and performance efficient solutions and leverages its core strengths in cell & molecular biology, systems level computational methodologies, signal & image processing, statistical and mathematical algorithms in broad areas of biomedical and life sciences.
BioCO...> Read more.. |
BioCOS Life Sciences is an R&D company that mainly focuses on providing cost effective and performance efficient solutions and leverages its core strengths in cell & molecular biology, systems level computational methodologies, signal & image processing, statistical and mathematical algorithms in broad areas of biomedical and life sciences.
BioCOS-COmputing Systems and Signals for Biomedical and Life Sciences is developing computing solutions for non-invasive biomedical devices for cardio vascular disease, tools to identify early biomarkers from high throughput mass spectrometry data, gene expression data, network biology solutions to predict the critical biomarkers through system level analysis of complex diseases, image processing solutions in life sciences and biomedical engineering.
Products and solutions being developed at BioCOS targets both biotech industries and research laboratories. BioCOS has a vision and business plan for the next five years. It has eminent international scientists and professors as its scientific advisors and collaborators approve its business plan/ ideas as milestones. The company has taken development initiatives in a pre-planned, systematic manner and aims to develop itself as a high quality interface life sciences company for life sciences industries, health care systems and academia.
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| How does the business make money? |
Bringing innovative and novel research ideas to products and subsequently to the valued economy and customers in it.
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| Team information |
-Sanjeev Kumar, CEO & MD
-Dr. Shipra Agrawal, CSO |
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| Competition |
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| Competitors |
Companies in areas of computational Molecular Biology/ Tools/ Imaging algorithms.
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| How different is your product or service? It has... |
Substitutes that differ in function |
| In what way is your product or service different? |
Performance efficient with induction of new mathematical algorithms and cost effective R&D and Solutions.
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| By The Numbers |
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2007 |
| No. of employees |
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0-5 |
| No. of locations |
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0-1 |
| No. of customers |
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2-5 |
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pre revenue |
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| Primary source of initial funding |
Personal savings |
| Primary source of additional funding |
Angel investors |
| Raised institutional capital? |
No |
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| Why is this startup hot? |
With the advancement of technology and new discoveries in the area of molecular biology, system biology and medicine, there is an increasing need for developing computationally sophisticated tools and software using recently evolved statistical and multi-scale mathematical algorithms that would solve diagnostic and conclusive problems for various disease...> Read more.. |
With the advancement of technology and new discoveries in the area of molecular biology, system biology and medicine, there is an increasing need for developing computationally sophisticated tools and software using recently evolved statistical and multi-scale mathematical algorithms that would solve diagnostic and conclusive problems for various diseases. BioCOS was started with the aim of fulfilling this growing necessity.
BioCOS Life Sciences is engaged in the R&D which impacts the performance efficient and customized solutions to the life sciences and biomedical industry. On the same time, one of the most important parameters of these efficient solutions is Cost Effectiveness for developing countries and to needy mass population which is being addressed by BioCOS.
That's where we are going to make a difference in customers' life. For example the cost effective solutions in biomedical hand-held devices to monitor blood chemistry and more complex diseases like early detection of cancer are on the anvil of the BioCOS R&D.
We do Embedded Bioinformatics and Computing (EBC). Our solutions which are targeted to reduce the wet lab experimental life cycles are definitely going to reduce the time taken in new drug discoveries and hence to effectively achieving the wet lab targets. BioCOS is changing the way of working in wet labs by doing Embedded Bioinformatics.
This means that BioCOS works to realize the wet lab and dry lab integrated approaches and solutions to fasten and provide cost effective solutions to the pharmaceuticals and research institutions in the areas such as drug discovery, early bio-marker detections, biomedical cost effective hand held devices to mention few. In doing so, our approach is towards archiving EBC in Life sciences domain on the similar lines as of embedded systems and software solutions to hardware semiconductor industry which has already proven its effectiveness in embedded devices domain.
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| What keeps the team awake at night? |
Being a startup company, the BioCOS team is driven by the urge to become a well established company in its expertise domains. Each team member at BioCOS understands well that the output of the company is the result of everybody's hard team work.
We desire to reach the top of R&D, and the excitement of getting optimal solutions and the approval of our experts keeps us going to design our objectives and attain them one by one. |
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