The startup develops a data conversion and storage platform that encodes digital information into deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) format, providing a long-term archival solution. This technology enables customers to economically store vast amounts of data in DNA molecules, addressing the limitations of traditional digital storage methods.
Funding
$59.2M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Product
Problem
Modern data creation is outpacing the capabilities of conventional computer systems, leading to limitations in capturing and leveraging critical insights from vast amounts of data. The energy demands of traditional data centers are also unsustainable, posing environmental challenges.
Solution
Catalog is developing a DNA-based storage and computing platform that addresses the limitations of traditional systems. By encoding digital information into synthetic DNA, Catalog offers a hyper-scalable and energy-efficient solution for long-term data archival and computation. The platform enables massively parallel operations on trillions of molecules, allowing for cost-effective data processing and retrieval. Catalog's technology also provides data protection through high redundancy and chemical encryption, while adhering to biosecurity guidelines for synthetic DNA.
Target Audience
The primary target audience includes organizations dealing with massive data sets, such as research institutions, government agencies, and enterprises in industries like media, finance, and healthcare, seeking long-term, energy-efficient, and secure data storage and computing solutions.
Features
- DNA-based data storage using synthetic, biologically inert sequences
- Massively parallel computing operations executed on trillions of DNA molecules
- High data density, enabling storage of vast amounts of information in a compact form factor
- Chemical encryption for enhanced data protection
- Compliance with NSTC guidelines and IBBIS Common Mechanism for biosecurity of synthetic DNA
- Prototype DNA writer (Shannon) utilizing inkjet printing technology for data encoding
- Demonstrated massively parallel search operation on a 208k-word text archive