OpenBiome
A nonprofit stool bank enabling access to fecal transplants.
What they do
Patients and clinicians lack safe, standardized access to screened fecal microbiota for treating conditions like recurrent C. difficile and for microbiome research.
A nonprofit stool bank that screens donors and processes, stores, and distributes fecal microbiota preparations for fecal transplants and research.
Hospitals, clinics, and researchers who use fecal microbiota transplant material for patient treatment and microbiome studies.
Founders
Co-founder, OpenBiome. Physician scientist researching the role of the microbiome in human health.
Carolyn Edelstein is OpenBiome’s Executive Director. She previously worked at Development Innovation Ventures, a program at USAID designed to fund ideas that could improve millions of lives in more cost-effective ways than standard international development approaches. Carolyn helped launch the Global Innovation Fund, a $200M multilateral development fund built on the DIV model, before co-founding OpenBiome.
Company timeline
- Founded2013
- YC batchWinter 2020
- StatusActive
- Team size70 people
- LocationCambridge, MA, USA
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