Built by believers.
Redefining life science.

Vitaura brings together scientists, AI researchers, and engineers from diverse backgrounds. Driven by curiosity and deep expertise, we work side by side to explore the complexity of life and build the infrastructure for the next era of biology.

Built by believers. 
Redefining life science.

Vitaura is an AI-native virtual cell platform company building AI infrastructure for the life sciences. Powered by large-scale biological data and cutting-edge model architectures, our virtual cell systems recognize cell states and predict how cells respond to perturbation.

We aim to shift drug discovery, cell therapy, synthetic biology, and beyond from costly trial and error to simulation-driven R&D — simulating cells and living systems first, then testing them in the lab. Our mission is to usher the life sciences into the programmable era.

Our Team

李鑫

李鑫

创始人&CEO

杨帆

杨帆

联合创始人&COO

阮星华

阮星华

CTO

杨阳

杨阳

产品及创新总监

朱迪聪

朱迪聪

高级科学家

毋冰

毋冰

Business Development

娄殿宇

娄殿宇

Business Development

李吉羊

李吉羊

高级算法工程师

王聃

王聃

高级算法工程师

吴云佳

吴云佳

高级算法工程师

周祺

周祺

高级算法工程师

乐元

乐元

高级算法工程师

吴增丁

吴增丁

高级算法工程师

杨明燕

杨明燕

高级生信工程师

金海晶

金海晶

算法工程师

武鹏鹏

武鹏鹏

算法工程师

Team
Composition

Vitaura

Vitaura

Vitaura

Vitaura

Vitaura

Vitaura

Vitaura

Vitaura

Vitaura

Vitaura

Vitaura

Vitaura

Vitaura

Vitaura

Vitaura

Vitaura

Vision

Vision

Entering the Programmable Era of Living Systems

Mission

Mission

Building AI infrastructure for the life sciences to simulate, predict, and design living systems.

Values

Values

Scientific Rigor · Open Collaboration · Long-Term Commitment

AIVC Industry Evolution Map

2023

2023.12

University of California, San Francisco
Releases Geneformer

2024

2024.01

University of Toronto
Releases scGPT

2024

2024.06

Tsinghua University and BioMap
Release scFoundation

2024

2024.10

Xin Li's Team, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Releases GeneCompass

2024

2024.10

GeneCompass model
published in Cell Research

2024

2024.11

Vitaura
Company Founded

2024

2024.12

Stanford, CZI, and Genentech
call for building AI virtual cells

2025

2025.02

AI drug discovery company Tahoe Therapeutics
open-sources the Tahoe-100M dataset

2025

2025.04

U.S. FDA announces plans to replace animal testing
with AI-driven models and other approaches

2025

2025.06

AI drug discovery company Xaira Therapeutics (raised $1B in its 2024 initial financing)
releases the X-Atlas/Orion dataset

2025

2025.06

Arc Institute, with UC Berkeley, Stanford, and others, releases
STATE, the first virtual cell model

2025

2025.06

Embryo digital twin company
Somite.ai closes $47M Series A

2025

2025.06

Arc Institute
launches the first Virtual Cell Challenge

2025

2025.07

Cell-GraphCompass model
published in National Science Review

2025

2025.09

Angel Round
Led by FreeS Fund
With participation from Shunxi and Baidu

2025

2025.10

AstraZeneca partners with Turbine to optimize ADC development
by predicting drug efficacy and potential resistance

2025

2025.11

CZI plans to invest $200B+
to scale up AI-driven biology research

2026

2026.01

Somite rebrands as Cellular Intelligence
and publishes a virtual cell white paper

2026

2026.01

Noetik and GSK Sign the First Pharma Licensing Deal
for a Human Biology / Virtual Cell Foundation Model

2026

2026.05

Angel+ Round
Led by CRHC Fund
with participation from Dalton Fund and Yunqi Partners, and follow-on investment from FreeS Fund and Baidu

2026

2026.06

Launch of AURACellOS,
the Next-Generation Virtual Cell World Model

2026

2026.07

CellAura Agent
Closed Beta Launched

2026

2026.07

Strategic Round
Led by Shanghai Aochuang Xiandao (Aopumai and Dalton Fund), with follow-on investment from Yunqi Partners and FreeS Fund

2026

2026.08

Second-generation perturbation model
First application model
Official launch

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