He-man Gene Announces Closing Angel Round of Millions of RMB

(VCBeat) Jan. 15, 2021 -- According to the report from 36Kr.com, He-man Gene, a commercial pet cloning service company, announced closing an angel round of millions of RMB with participation from Wudun Baoan and Qupin Keji.

The funds are earmarked for cloning experiments of dogs, cats and mice, as well as the company operation and team construction.

He-man Gene is a national high-tech enterprise engaged in gene technologies of animals. It has built the closed loop of animal life cycle management from gene testing, gene editing, cell therapy to animal cloning.

Based on two technology platforms respectively for gene editing and somatic cloning, and the animal genetic diversity database, He-man Gene is a provider of commercial pet cloning services with independent intellectual property rights and an internationally leading technology of gene-edited dog.

The business of He-man Gene is divided into three major segments: cloning & asexual reproduction, gene therapy, and biological medicine. Aiming at three different markets, the company adopts different market strategies to carry out its industrial layout and market expansion.

The asexual reproduction technology provided by He-man Gene, which allows artificial insemination and reproduction through the extraction of somatic cells, is a growing demand for pet owners to keep related offspring of their pets.

He-man Gene uses CRISPR/Cas9 genetic scissors and gene repair technology to find the treatment of cancer. The project is scheduled to be delivered to volunteers and marketed in 2021, with an estimated annual sales volume of RMB 40 billion.

The dog is the standard model animal in biomedical research, and the dog model for gene therapies is the ideal large animal model for the study of human genetic diseases, cardiovascular diseases, rare diseases, and brain diseases. The animal model of atherosclerosis and autistic in dogs of He-man Gene have significant value in the biomedicine field.

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