Mimulus provides a molecular archive technology that stores digital data in synthetic DNA on credit‑card‑sized Glacier Cards, delivering petabyte‑scale density with zero power consumption and 200+ years durability.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Enterprises and organizations store massive amounts of cold data on magnetic tape or hard‑disk arrays that require continuous power, periodic refresh cycles, and are vulnerable to degradation and cyber‑attack. This results in high operating costs, limited data longevity, and security risks for critical assets such as AI training sets, media libraries, and regulated records.
Solution
Mimulus offers a molecular archive technology that encodes digital files into synthetic DNA and stores them on credit‑card‑sized Glacier Data Storage Cards. The DNA medium provides petabyte‑scale density with no power consumption, eliminating ongoing energy and maintenance expenses. Data is sealed in an air‑gapped, physically isolated card that remains readable for centuries without degradation, delivering permanent, corruption‑free retention. Customers retrieve their files through a proprietary decoding pipeline that reconstructs data with 99.9999% fidelity, typically within 48 hours. This approach enables organizations to offload cold data from the grid, reduce OPEX, and achieve post‑quantum security for their most valuable information.
Target Audience
Primary customers are AI research labs, media and entertainment companies, and regulated sectors such as government, healthcare, and finance that need long‑term, low‑cost, and secure storage for large cold‑data sets.
Features
- Credit‑card‑sized Glacier Card with up to 1,001 TB of data per card (petabyte density)
- Synthetic DNA storage engineered via MAT™ CMOS platform for precise, parallel molecular writing
- Zero‑watt, air‑gapped architecture requiring no power, cooling, or periodic refresh cycles
- Proven durability exceeding 200 years with >99.9999% file integrity projected for millennia
- Proprietary compression and encoding (Mimulus Code) that maximizes storage efficiency
- Secure, physically isolated archive providing inherent resistance to cyber‑threats and post‑quantum attacks
- Retrieval pipeline delivering original files with 99.9999% fidelity within 48 hours