OAKLAND, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Omicia, Inc., a leading provider of clinical genome interpretation and reporting software, today announced the completion of a $23 million Series B financing round. Several new investors participated in the round, including UPMC Enterprises, Roche Venture Fund, LDV Partners, Ping An Ventures, and a large genomics investor, as well as existing investors ARTIS Ventures, Acadia Woods Partners and Buchanan Investments.
Omicia’s latest financing will be used to fuel acceleration in product development and an expansion in sales, sales support, marketing and operations. In addition, the company plans to extend variations of its flagship OpalTM Clinical platform for use in new geographies and new verticals including life science research, clinical trial support, population health management and consumer applications.
“With new investment from one of the nation’s leading health systems, a premier life sciences company, and China’s largest insurance company, we are well positioned to expand our team and extend our technologies, products and services into new markets,” said Matt Tindall, CEO of Omicia. “As evidenced by the work we’re doing with Genomics England, the world’s leading national genome project, Omicia is filling a critical gap between sequencing tools and clinical decision making, delivering on the promise of precision medicine.”
Omicia’s software provides leading healthcare system stakeholders with fast, accurate and scalable next generation sequence (NGS) interpretation and reporting capabilities to drive improved clinical outcomes. Further, the platform provides customers with an option to scale production in a HIPAA-compliant, cloud-enabled environment.
“As an investor, UPMC is excited to work with Omicia to begin to address today’s extraordinary opportunities in precision medicine,” said Tal Heppenstall, president of UPMC Enterprises, the innovation and commercialization arm of UPMC, one of the country’s largest integrated healthcare provider and payor systems. “We envision a future in which we can routinely deliver actionable genomic insights about individual patients in real-time, within the workflow of our 3,500 physicians.”
In addition, Omicia’s OpalTM Clinical platform leverages a deep variant data warehouse to deliver high-throughput results to assist lab partners with automated diagnostic reporting. The easily deployed, white-label solution can be used to replace manual, expensive and difficult to maintain in-house software pipelines to lower costs and improve quality.
“Omicia has built a world-class software platform that can be applied at the intersection of genomic data and more traditional healthcare information to generate insights powering both predictive and preventive medicine,” said Stu Peterson, co-founder and senior partner at ARTIS Ventures, who in addition to contributing to its latest round of financing was its first institutional investor, leading Omicia’s Series A. “Genome sequencing, combined with machine-learning algorithms and powerful data analytics, will provide physicians with more complete, actionable insights at a reasonable cost.”
Another significant new development for the company is the strong support in the round from strategically important overseas investors. With new partners in Asia and Europe, the company intends to continue its push into these important markets.
“We are very proud to work with Omicia and its team to bring novel technology offerings to markets which are driven by active health management initiatives,” said Jiang Zhang, Managing Director Ping An Ventures. “Omicia’s software is designed perfectly to address important population health management opportunities in Asia.”
About Omicia
Omicia delivers a market-leading software platform that enables analysis, interpretation, and reporting on genomic data to expedite diagnosis and improve medical outcomes. Omicia’s products are in use at more than 500 world-class academic and clinical institutions worldwide. By accelerating understanding of the genetic basis of disease, drug response, and health, Omicia is unlocking the potential of individualized medicine. Headquartered in Oakland, California with an office in the UK, Omicia was founded by renowned industry veterans with a deep understanding of technology, genomics, and diagnostics. Investors include ARTIS Ventures, Acadia Woods Partners, Bay City Capital, Buchanan Investments, Casdin Capital, LDV Partners, Ping An, Roche Venture Fund, UPMC Enterprises and Yuri Milner. For additional information, visit www.omicia.com and follow us on Twitter @omicia. For employment inquiries, please contact us at www.omicia.com/careers/.