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Axor was selected as a finalist in the largest startup competition in the Greater Seattle area with more than 300 attendees.

Jan 30, 2025

"On the second day of SLAS 2025, the world's largest laboratory automation conference in San Diego, the last two finalists of the Ignite Award pitched their business models.
Seattle-based Axor Biosystems’ founders Abizar Lakdawalla (CEO) and Brett Anderson (CTO) have developed a cost-effective, high-throughput approach that automates and miniaturises microfludic electrophoresis. Their One-Box platform carries out purification, analysis and dectection in 96 well microplate format leading to 10-fold higher throughput and reduction of process costs by factor 10. The company targets the US$5.6bn market for analytical electrophoresis, the US$4.1bn market for biomolecule purification as well as the US$23bn market for biomolecule affinity assays at the same time. Axor’s technology provides autonomous electrophoresis cells arrayed in microplate strips that offer interoperability for a broad range of electrophoresis applications. Specifically, the electrophoresis consumables are available as 2, 4, 8 well/cell microplate strips. The strips are self-contained and only require the addition of a sample (DNA, RNA, protein and cell or cell lysates suspended in a labelling mix) depending on the specific application. These strips are held in a microplate holder and are processed in an instrument that controls the electrophoresis within each cell independently of the other cells under real-time imaging control."

Jan 25, 2025

Axor was one of only eight companies selected by the Society for Laboratory Automation and Screen (SLAS) to compete for the 2025 SLAS Ignite Award. The SLAS Ignite Award recognizes the best start-up or emerging company invited to exhibit at the Innovation AveNEW, specially designated for start-ups and emerging companies at the 2025 International SLAS Conference and Exhibition held in San Diego in late January 2025.