Rising selection · No. 22 in The Rising 100
Tanay Lohia
Founder · Mandrake Bio
- Country
- India
- City
- Bengaluru
- Industry
- Biotech / AI
- Stage
- pre-seed
- Region
- India
- Rising rank
- No. 22
01 / The founder
Biography
Founder and Chief Editing Officer of Mandrake Bio, a Bengaluru startup building AI-designed, hypercompact gene-editing proteins for medicine and agriculture.
02 / The company
Mandrake Bio
Tanay Lohia works as founder at Mandrake Bio, a biotech / ai company based in Bengaluru at the pre-seed stage.
03 / Why they’re rising
Why they're rising
Raised ~$1.9M pre-seed co-led by Activate and Antler with strategic biotech angels, and is an Emergent Ventures Fellow, tackling a globally significant deep-tech problem.
04 / Verification
What we verified
Confirmed sole founder across company site and CB Insights; company operating, pre-seed funded with credible investor syndicate and press coverage.
05 / References