Rapid chemical intelligence through living bioelectronic sensors
Digital camera chips changed the world by turning the information encoded in light into digital data accessible to anyone. At Kāhu SiliconBio, we are doing the same for solution chemistry — liberating the molecular information hidden in liquids as rapid, digital, chemical intelligence.
Critical chemical signals in liquids remain unreadable in real-time
In biomanufacturing, a failed batch is discovered hours too late. In medicine, a patient waits days for results that should be available in minutes. In the environment, contamination goes undetected for months.
Today’s solutions are either too slow or too insensitive to deliver critical chemical information when and where it matters.
Life as a sensor
We wire live bacteria directly into silicon chips, harnessing billions of years of evolution to measure the chemical signals that matter. Our BioChip is the first silicon chip that enables integration of living molecular machinery as a functional chip component — delivering rapid, electronic measurement of a broad range of target chemicals in liquids, at the point of need.
Rapid results at point of need.
From the environment to the body.
No lab required.
About us
Kāhu SiliconBio is a spin-out from the Centre for Engineering Biology at the University of Edinburgh.
James Flewellen
CEO & Co-Founder
Jake Tompkins
Chair
James Broughton
Bioengineering R&D Lead
Amritha Janardanan
Hardware R&D Lead
Teuta Pilizota
CTO & Co-Founder
Richard Marlow
CFO
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Our pre-seed investment round is open. We welcome enquiries from investors and potential partners.