Insider Brief
- Pluto Bio raised $3.6 million in new funding from Kickstart, Silverton Partners, and angel investors to expand its AI-powered computational biology platform for global pharma companies.
- The platform enables scientists to analyze and visualize complex biological data without coding, supporting applications in target discovery, translational medicine, and biomarker research.
- Pluto’s growth plans include enhancing AI agents, expanding R&D tool integrations, scaling commercial efforts, and accelerating adoption across therapeutic areas.
PRESS RELEASE — Pluto Bio, the leading, AI-powered platform for computational biology, announced it has raised $3.6 million in new funding to accelerate growth and scale adoption of its enterprise-grade platform among global pharma companies. The round includes participation from new investor Kickstart, alongside existing investor Silverton Partners and existing angel investors.
Pluto’s platform serves as the industry’s most powerful “canvas for computational biology” — a secure, collaborative environment where scientists at therapeutics companies explore large, high-dimensional datasets, run auto-scaling bioinformatics pipelines, and generate publication-ready visualizations tailored to their specific scientific questions without writing code. As large language models (LLMs) reshape drug discovery and development, Pluto is at the forefront of empowering biology and translational medicine teams to harness AI in a manner that complements the vital insights from human scientists.
“AI is transforming how we interrogate biology,” said Dalton Wright, General Partner at Kickstart. “What impressed us about Pluto is how it puts the power of LLMs into the hands of domain expert scientists — biologists, translational researchers, and discovery teams — by giving them an instantly intuitive interface for expressing scientific questions faster and in a way that increases scientific rigor and reproducibility.”
Pluto enables scientists to run proprietary analyses on both public datasets — such as The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia (CCLE), and Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) — and internal, raw data using industry-validated, auto-scaling pipelines built for scale, security, and reproducibility. Scientists use Pluto for critical steps in early-mid drug discovery, such as target discovery, mechanism of action (MoA) studies, translational medicine, and biomarkers/precision medicine research. The platform supports the wide range of assays used for investigating targets and biomarkers, including genomics, transcriptomics, epigenetics, and proteomics.
The platform is trusted by mid-market and enterprise clients across North America and Europe, with users spanning discovery biology, translational research, and computational teams. As a collaborative layer over drug discovery data infrastructure, Pluto integrates seamlessly into existing scientific workflows and supports data governance needs for regulated environments.
“With this funding, we’re fueling our mission to make high-dimensional biological data accessible to the people who deeply understand the underlying biology and unmet therapeutic needs,” said Dr. Rani Powers, Founder and CEO of Pluto. “Teams using Pluto are already demonstrating that innovation in drug discovery accelerates when scientists can directly generate insights from complex data. Our platform was built to make that vision real, whether for a team of ten scientists or an enterprise organization with hundreds.”
The new capital will support continued development of Pluto’s AI agents and copilots, expansion of integrations with other R&D tools, enable build-out of commercial roles, and accelerate deployment across therapeutic areas and modalities.
About Pluto
Pluto Bio is the leading AI-powered data management, analysis, and visualization platform for multi-omics. Designed for pharma, Pluto enables scientists to analyze, visualize, and collaborate on large-scale biological data without writing code. From target discovery to translational medicine, Pluto empowers R&D and translational science teams to turn complex datasets into insights faster and with greater confidence. Learn more at pluto.bio.
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