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VastBiome: Funding, Investors & Team (Sep 2026)

VastBiome is a biotechnology company that mines microbiome drugs to treat cancer and autoimmune disease. The company employs its proprietary methods in genomic sequencing, artificial intelligence, and synthetic biology to discover biomarkers and therapeutics for challenging immunologic disorders. It offers a platform that aims to aggregate public and private data in order to generate a microbiome database and leverages analytical processes to discover connections between distinct and biologically related data in order to increase statistical power and drive discovery. In addition, the platform can be used to identify novel biomarkers to risk-stratify patients and predict clinical outcomes. It was co-founded by Peter McCaffrey, Kovi Bessoff, Ayin Vala, and Kareem Barghouti in Millbrae, California in 2018.

www.vastbiome.com LinkedIn Millbrae, United States 11-50 employees
Biotechnology Predictive Analytics Therapeutics B2B
Total raised
$19.0M
Rounds
2
Latest
Series A
Sep 2022

VastBiome has raised $19.0M across 2 funding rounds on record, the most recent a Series A of $14.5M announced in Sep 2022.

That round is above the $5.8M median round size for Artificial Intelligence companies tracked on FundedIQ over the last two years.

VastBiome Company Profile and Key Stats

Total funding raised
$19.0M
across 2 rounds on record
Funding rounds on record
2
Latest funding round
Series A
$14.5M in Sep 2022
Employees
11-50
reported band
Headquarters
Millbrae, United States

Latest funding round on record: Sep 2022.

VastBiome Funding Rounds

Date
Round
Amount
Series A
$14.5M
Undisclosed round
$4.5M

VastBiome raised $4.5M in an undisclosed round announced in Nov 2020.

1.8 years later, a Series A of $14.5M was announced in Sep 2022.

VastBiome Founders and Leadership Team

Name
Role
Contact
Peter Mccaffrey
Founder
Locked
Kareem Barghouti
CEO
Locked

Contact details for the VastBiome team: 2 of 2 have an email address on file.

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VastBiome Funding Compared to Other Artificial Intelligence Startups

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Median round
29,878
$7.5M
8,422
$15M

VastBiome's latest round of $14.5M is above the median round in Artificial Intelligence. Medians cover the last 24 months of disclosed rounds.

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VastBiome Funding FAQs

What does VastBiome do?

VastBiome is a biotechnology company that mines microbiome drugs to treat cancer and autoimmune disease. The company employs its proprietary methods in genomic sequencing, artificial intelligence, and synthetic biology to discover biomarkers and therapeutics for challenging immunologic disorders. It offers a platform that aims to aggregate public and private data in order to generate a microbiome database and leverages analytical processes to discover connections between distinct and biologically related data in order to increase statistical power and drive discovery. In addition, the platform can be used to identify novel biomarkers to risk-stratify patients and predict clinical outcomes. It was co-founded by Peter McCaffrey, Kovi Bessoff, Ayin Vala, and Kareem Barghouti in Millbrae, California in 2018.

How much funding has VastBiome raised?

VastBiome has raised $19.0M across 2 rounds on record. The most recent is a Series A of $14.5M announced in Sep 2022.

When did VastBiome last raise funding?

VastBiome's most recent funding round on record is a Series A of $14.5M, announced in Sep 2022.

Who founded VastBiome?

FundedIQ lists Peter Mccaffrey (Founder) at VastBiome.

Who is the CEO of VastBiome?

Kareem Barghouti is listed as CEO at VastBiome.

Where is VastBiome headquartered?

VastBiome is based in Millbrae, California, United States.

How many employees does VastBiome have?

VastBiome is in the 11-50 employee band.

How does VastBiome's funding compare to other Artificial Intelligence startups?

VastBiome's latest round of $14.5M is above the $5.8M median round size for Artificial Intelligence companies on FundedIQ across 7,234 tracked companies over the last two years.

About FundedIQ's VastBiome 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 VastBiome is left off this page rather than filled in.

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