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The Lab That Turns Beauty Claims Into Receipts
Most beauty brands sell a promise. This 26-person Valencia lab sells the evidence behind it - and turned customized efficacy testing into a cross-border business.
Medpace
The Cincinnati CRO built a $2.5 billion business by taking on clinical trials that young biotechs cannot run alone - and by keeping the scientists, software, labs and logistics under one roof.
Cromatic
Cromatic is an AI-native platform for life-science R&D outsourcing and revenue operations. It runs a curated marketplace connecting biotech and pharma companies with vetted Contract Research Organizations (CROs) and Contract Development and Manufacturing Organizations (CDMOs), then layers on vendor discovery, project tracking, data storage, collaboration, contracting, and milestone payments so scientists can outsource complex research without stitching together spreadsheets, email threads, and word-of-mouth referrals. Founded in 2022 by Stanford geneticist Ann Lin and former Meta engineer Anne Chen, the company raised a $5.3M oversubscribed seed round in November 2023 and manages tens of millions of dollars in research budgets.