# Alfredo Andere

> Alfredo Andere is the co-founder and CEO of LatchBio, a San Francisco company building cloud and machine-learning infrastructure for biology. Born in Mexico City and raised in Guadalajara, he studied Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley, worked at Google on the TensorFlow-NumPy framework and as a data engineer at Facebook, then dropped out of Berkeley in early 2021 with two college friends to start LatchBio. The trio conducted roughly 300 customer interviews before writing code, raised an oversubscribed $5M seed led by Lux Capital, and have since scaled the company through a $28M Series A and a 2026 Series B, bringing total funding to $163M. Andere is a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree.

- **Role:** Co-Founder and CEO at LatchBio
- **Organizations:** LatchBio, Google, Facebook, Machine Learning at Berkeley, UC Berkeley
- **From:** Mexico City, Mexico
- **Nationality:** Mexican
- **Education:** B.S. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (left before completing senior year), University of California, Berkeley
- **Known for:** Co-founded and leads LatchBio, a cloud and machine-learning platform for biology, Raised an oversubscribed $5M seed, a $28M Series A, and a Series B (total funding $163M), Named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list

## Career timeline

- **2020** — Software engineer at Google working on the TensorFlow-NumPy framework
- **2020** — Data engineer at Facebook
- **2020** — President of Machine Learning at Berkeley
- **2021** — Dropped out of UC Berkeley with co-founders Kenny Workman and Kyle Giffin to start LatchBio
- **2021** — Completed a ~2.5-month Taiwan incubator, ran roughly 300 customer interviews
- **2021** — Raised an oversubscribed $5M seed round led by Lux Capital
- **2022** — Raised $28M Series A led by Coatue with Lux Capital
- **2026** — Series B announced; total funding reaches $163M

## Achievements

- Co-founded and leads LatchBio, a cloud and machine-learning platform for biology
- Raised an oversubscribed $5M seed, a $28M Series A, and a Series B (total funding $163M)
- Named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list
- President of Machine Learning at Berkeley
- Worked on the TensorFlow-NumPy framework at Google

## Latest updates

- **2026-04** — LatchBio's latest funding round (Series B) closed, bringing reported total funding to $163M.

## Links

- Website: https://latch.bio
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alfredoandere/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/latchbio

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Last updated: 2026-06-14