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Philip Fradkin

Philip Fradkin is a co-founder of Blank Bio, a health and biotech AI company based in San Francisco. Philip Fradkin co-founded Blank Bio with Jonathan Hsu and Ruian Shi. Blank Bio raised a US$7.2M seed round in May 2026 from Define Ventures, Leonis Capital, Nova Threshold and others.

Co-founder of Blank Bio.

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Blank Bio

RNA foundation models trained on tumour transcriptomes for patient stratification and biomarker discovery in oncology.

Role
Co-founder
HQ
San Francisco, CA, US
Status
Active
Disclosed raised
US$7.2M
Latest round
Seed, May 19, 2026
Website
blank.bio

Co-founders: Jonathan Hsu, Ruian Shi

Investors: Define Ventures, Leonis Capital, Nova Threshold, Ripple Ventures, SignalFire, Y Combinator

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Data as of November 10, 2026.

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