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Emulate: Funding, Investors & Team (Oct 2026)

Emulate is a privately held company that creates advanced in vitro models for understanding how diseases, medicines, chemicals, and foods affect human health. Our lab-ready Human Emulation System® includes three components: Zoë® Culture Module, Organ-Chips, and analytical software applications. The platform provides a window into the inner workings of human biology and disease—offering researchers a new technology designed to predict human response with greater precision and detail than conventional cell culture or animal-based experimental testing. Each of the Emulate proprietary Organ-Chip models—including the liver, intestine, and kidney—contains tiny hollow channels lined with tens of thousands of living human cells and tissues and is approximately the size of an AA battery. An Organ-Chip is a living, microengineered environment that recreates the natural physiology and mechanical forces that cells experience within the human body. Our founding team pioneered the Organs-on-Chips technology at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University. Emulate holds the worldwide exclusive license from Harvard University to a robust and broad intellectual property portfolio for the Organs-on-Chips technology and related systems. For more information, please visit emulatebio.com.

emulatebio.com LinkedIn Boston, United States 101-250 employees
Biotechnology Health Care Life Science Medical
Total raised
$82.0M
Rounds
1
Latest
Series E
Sep 2021

Emulate has raised $82.0M across 1 funding round on record, the most recent a Series E of $82.0M announced in Sep 2021.

That round is above the $8.1M median round size for Biotechnology companies tracked on FundedIQ over the last two years.

Emulate Company Profile and Key Stats

Total funding raised
$82.0M
across 1 round on record
Funding rounds on record
1
Latest funding round
Series E
$82.0M in Sep 2021
Employees
101-250
reported band
Headquarters
Boston, United States

Latest funding round on record: Sep 2021.

Emulate Funding Rounds

Date
Round
Amount
Series E
$82.0M

Emulate Founders and Leadership Team

Name
Role
Contact
Jim Corbett
CEO
Locked

Contact details for the Emulate team: 1 of 1 has an email address on file.

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Emulate Funding Compared to Other Biotechnology Startups

Segment
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Median round
4,185
$8.1M
30,234
$7.6M
275
$100M

Emulate's latest round of $82.0M is above the median round in Biotechnology. Medians cover the last 24 months of disclosed rounds.

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Emulate Funding FAQs

What does Emulate do?

Emulate is a privately held company that creates advanced in vitro models for understanding how diseases, medicines, chemicals, and foods affect human health. Our lab-ready Human Emulation System® includes three components: Zoë® Culture Module, Organ-Chips, and analytical software applications. The platform provides a window into the inner workings of human biology and disease—offering researchers a new technology designed to predict human response with greater precision and detail than conventional cell culture or animal-based experimental testing. Each of the Emulate proprietary Organ-Chip models—including the liver, intestine, and kidney—contains tiny hollow channels lined with tens of thousands of living human cells and tissues and is approximately the size of an AA battery. An Organ-Chip is a living, microengineered environment that recreates the natural physiology and mechanical forces that cells experience within the human body. Our founding team pioneered the Organs-on-Chips technology at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University. Emulate holds the worldwide exclusive license from Harvard University to a robust and broad intellectual property portfolio for the Organs-on-Chips technology and related systems. For more information, please visit emulatebio.com.

How much funding has Emulate raised?

Emulate has raised $82.0M across 1 round on record. The most recent is a Series E of $82.0M announced in Sep 2021.

When did Emulate last raise funding?

Emulate's most recent funding round on record is a Series E of $82.0M, announced in Sep 2021.

Who is the CEO of Emulate?

Jim Corbett is listed as CEO at Emulate.

Where is Emulate headquartered?

Emulate is based in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

How many employees does Emulate have?

Emulate is in the 101-250 employee band.

How does Emulate's funding compare to other Biotechnology startups?

Emulate's latest round of $82.0M is above the $8.1M median round size for Biotechnology companies on FundedIQ across 4,185 tracked companies over the last two years.

About FundedIQ's Emulate Funding Data

FundedIQ tracks announced funding rounds and refreshes this profile every week. Round dates, stages and amounts are normalised to a single format, converted to US dollars, and de-duplicated: two records of the same round announced days apart are merged, and two genuinely different rounds are kept apart on the amounts they disclose. Amounts shown are the disclosed figures only — a round announced without a number is listed and excluded from the total rather than estimated.

Employee counts are reported bands, not exact headcounts. Founder and executive names carry the job title on record. Anything we do not hold for Emulate is left off this page rather than filled in.

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