Perlara
Perlara: building the YC for rare disease parents
Oakland, United States · Founded 2014 · $1.0M raised
- Headquarters
- Oakland, California
- Employees
- 1–10
- Founded
- 2014
- Website
- perlara.com
- Total Funding
- $1.0M
- Last Round
- $1.0M GrantSep 2025
- Rounds
- 3
About
Perlara 1.0 (Feb 2014 - Feb 2019) launched early R&D joint ventures called PerlQuests with highly motivated rare disease families, companies or impact investors. We screened gene-edited patient avatars for repurposable drugs in order to build a predictive R&D engine called ArkBase. We planned to monetize programs based on ArkBase predictions by selectively spinning out asset-centric clinical development NewCos. Perlara 1.5 (March 2019 - April 2020) was the transition to a one-person virtual clinical development company and when the epalrestat and aripiprazole repurposing trials were launched at Mayo Clinic for the treatment of PMM2-CDG and NGLY1-CDDG, respectively. Perlara 2.0 (May 2020 --> The first decentralized and distributed biotech
Summary
Perlara is a Healthcare company based in Oakland, United States, founded in 2014. It has raised $1.0M in total across 3 rounds, most recently a $1.0M Grant round in Sep 2025. Investors include Y Combinator, Slow Ventures and Novartis Venture Fund.
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Funding History
Sep 2025
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