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The AI Startup Teaching Machines to Read Matter - Before the Lab Calls Back
HyperSpectral began with a three-hour COVID testing line and a failed ad-tech bet. Now it is building a software layer that promises to turn light into answers - across blood samples, bioreactors, food lines and defense supply chains.
Matterworks
Matterworks is a Somerville, Massachusetts biotech-AI company building foundation models for molecular biology. Its Large Spectral Models (LSMs) are trained on billions of mass spectrometry spectra and read raw molecular signals directly, turning slow, manual mass-spec workflows into automated, untargeted absolute quantitation. Its flagship cloud platform, Pyxis, acts as a predictive omics assistant that converts raw LC-MS data into identified, quantified molecules and biological insight - making mass spectrometry usable by any biologist rather than only specialist analysts.