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Tempo Therapeutics, Inc.

San Diego, CA
LAST FUNDING
$16.3M
Series A

Tempo Therapeutics is a biotechnology and tissue engineering company based out of San Diego, CA specializing in speeding up patient recovery.

Funding history

RoundAmount
Series A$16.3M
SEC Form D filed
Mar 15, 2024·Aug 9, 2021·Jun 2, 2020

About Tempo Therapeutics, Inc.

How much funding has Tempo Therapeutics, Inc. raised?

Tempo Therapeutics, Inc. has raised $16.3M in total funding. The most recent round was Series A.

Where is Tempo Therapeutics, Inc. headquartered?

Tempo Therapeutics, Inc. is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

What does Tempo Therapeutics, Inc. do?

Tempo Therapeutics is a biotechnology and tissue engineering company based out of San Diego, CA specializing in speeding up patient recovery.

What problem does Tempo Therapeutics, Inc. solve?

Patients undergoing soft tissue reconstruction for dermal and abdominal wall indications face significant clinical challenges in surgical oncology.

What's Tempo Therapeutics, Inc.'s solution?

Tempo builds functional tissue and organs directly within patients using its MAP (microporous annealed particle) technology, combining immunomodulation and material science to improve tissue strength and restore function.

What makes Tempo Therapeutics, Inc. different?

Their proprietary MAP core technology is also being extended beyond wound repair into combination drug delivery, allogenic cell engraftment, and next-generation vaccine technologies, developed with academic partner labs (the Griffin Lab and Segura Lab).

What makes Tempo Therapeutics, Inc. notable?

Tempo Therapeutics, a San Diego tissue-engineering biotech founded by Westbrook Weaver and Donald Griffin, closed a Series A co-led by Johnson & Johnson Innovation and Galaxy-Sirius Partners.

Leadership

Westbrook Weaver
Executive Officer, Director
Donald Griffin
Director
Richard Hancock
Director
Biren Mehta
Director
Steven Richieri
Director
Steven Sands
Director
Robin Sitver
Director
Industry
Healthcare
HQ
San Diego, CA
Raised
$16.3M
Stage
Series A
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