Advanced Cell Analysis · Multi-Omics · Drug Discovery

25+ life science products launched.
Yours is next.

You built the instrument. We’ll build the business that sells it.

For technical founders and C-level teams, pre-seed to Series B, with small, limited, or no commercial team.

$150M+
Client Capital Raised
30K+
Contacts & KOLs
35+
Years Experience
The innovators who chose us
Why Kaironexus

The commercial team you don’t have to build.

Focus on the science, we’ll take it to market.

A commercial team without the hiring.

35+ years and 25+ launches, working from day one. No twelve-month build, no equity grant, no bad hire to unwind.

You don’t have a network yet. We do.

30,000+ scientists and KOLs across flow cytometry, bioprocess, and metabolic research. The people who decide whether your category adopts.

You can build ten. We’ll get you to five hundred.

CDMO and supply chain networks across the Americas, EU, and Asia, so making the units is never the thing that stalls the launch.

Give your next round something to price.

Companies we’ve worked with have raised $150M+. At pre-seed to Series B, commercial traction is what the term sheet is built on.

Selected Launches

Platforms we have taken from bench to market, exit, and scale.

A sample of the 25+ products our founding team has commercialized across three decades in life science tools.
Drug Discovery · Flow Cytometry · M&A Exit

IntelliCyt: from screening platform to a $90M acquisition

Exit value$90M cash (Sartorius, 2016)
Revenue at exit$13.4M (FY2015)
Revenue multiple~6.7× trailing
Growth into exit68% in the final year

Sartorius acquired IntelliCyt in June 2016 to anchor its position in immuno-oncology and antibody discovery. In the four years into the deal, we scaled the iQue platform from a niche high-throughput screening tool into a system installed at the top 15 global pharmaceutical companies, and delivered a cash exit at a multiple well above life-science tools norms.

Led by Janette Phi, Chief Commercial Officer, then Chief Business Officer

AI Cell Analysis · Product Launch · Drug Discovery

ThinkCyte: the world’s first dual-mode AI cell platform, in nine months

Design to release9 months
First-year revenue$5M+
RecognitionSLAS 2023 finalist
Team built30+ in 12 months

ThinkCyte had breakthrough science, Ghost Cytometry published in Science, but no product and no go-to-market organization. We built the five-year roadmap across instruments, consumables, reagents, and cloud AI software, took VisionSort from design to manufacturing release in nine months, launched at SLAS 2023, and stood up a 30-person global commercial organization in the first year.

Led by Janette Phi, Chief Business and Commercial Officer

Fundraising · Non-Dilutive Capital · Global Expansion

ThinkCyte: $56M raised across equity and government grants

Raised in tenure$56M (2023–24)
Total funding$91M through Series C
Capital sourcesVC + strategic + grants
Strategic investorsSysmex, Nomura SPARX, JICN

Scaling a hardware-plus-AI platform out of Japan into US and EU markets needed capital that pure venture equity could not efficiently supply. We closed a $24M round in November 2023 and a $32M Series C in August 2024, blending institutional venture, strategic corporate investors, and Japanese government non-dilutive funding (NEDO Deep Tech Startup Program), bringing total funding to $91M while limiting dilution.

Led by Janette Phi, Chief Business Officer

Label-Free Detection · Instruments + Consumables · Biopharma

ForteBio: launching the Octet platform and its consumables engine

Instruments launchedOctet QK (2005), RED (2008)
Consumables on market11 biosensor products
Capital raised$42.3M (Series A–C)
Assay time vs. ELISA<20 min vs. 4–5 hrs

ForteBio entered a market defined by Biacore’s expensive, low-throughput SPR systems. Positioning Bio-Layer Interferometry as the faster, higher-throughput alternative, we launched the Octet QK (2005) and Octet RED (2008) alongside a biosensor consumables line that reached 11 products, establishing the recurring-revenue model. The platform became the anchor asset in Pall’s acquisition of ForteBio, today part of Sartorius.

Led by Janette Phi, VP Marketing

What We Run

Four phases. One team.

No handoffs between specialists. No disappearing between phases.

01Strategy

Strategy & Corporate Advisory

Define the market, the buyer, the commercial model, and the milestone-based roadmap. Translate your science into the right path to revenue.

02Launch

Commercial Strategy & Launch Support

Launch planning, pricing, reimbursement, channel strategy, and field readiness. Everything that turns a cleared product into commercial scale.

03Partnerships

Licensing & Partnership Development

Identify, evaluate, and negotiate partnerships, licensing deals, and collaborations that expand capabilities and unlock strategic growth.

04Manufacturing

Manufacturing & Supply Chain Solutions

Global manufacturing networks, CMO/CDMO selection, scale-up readiness, and distribution partnerships across the Americas, EU, and Asia.

Our Products

On the market today.

Microbioreactors and nanoparticle analysis platforms we have commercialized for the technology developers behind them.

Cell Line Development

NEST

Accelerate Cell Line Development by 29 to 42 percent with true dynamic mixing at 24- and 96-well scale. Real-time DO and pH metabolic insight at the microplate stage.

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Metabolic Monitoring

DolphinQ

See metabolism in motion. Continuously monitor DO, pH, OCR, and ECAR in real time for full-course metabolic profiling throughout the entire culture period.

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The Team

Founder-led. Expert-backed.

Three founders with decades of senior leadership across pharma, biotech, and diagnostics, backed by specialists across every commercial function and an advisory board of industry-leading experts.

Janette Phi, MBA. Chief Executive Officer.

Janette Phi, MBA

Chief Executive Officer

Strategy, commercialization, and capital. Multi-product launches across pharma and life science tools.

Brett Gordon. Co-founder and Chief Commercial Officer.

Brett Gordon

Chief Commercial Officer

Operations, manufacturing, and global distribution. Decades scaling life science companies through launch and beyond.

Nick Wilson, MBA. Business Development Director.

Nick Wilson, MBA

Business Development Director

Licensing, partnerships, and business development across biotech, diagnostics, and life science tools.

Free Resource

The Commercialization Readiness Checklist

A 12-point self-assessment built from 20+ life science launches. Use it to evaluate whether your product is ready for commercial launch.

  • Where you are vs. where you need to be on regulatory, market access, and operations.
  • The 5 most common gaps that derail life science launches.
  • Build vs. buy decisions for your first commercial team.

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Plus a 30-minute commercialization review with our team if you want one.