Stipple Bio was founded in 2022 by cancer biology pioneers Dr. Aaron Ring, Associate Professor at Fred Hutch and Dr. Aashish Manglik, Associate Professor at UCSF, who believed that targeting tumor-specific cell surface epitopes could improve therapeutic index and unlock targets previously intractable with conventional drug discovery methods.
Investors a16z Bio+Health, Yosemite and OMX provided Stipple Bio’s initial Seed financing.