Biomatrica

What Biomatrica does

Biomatrica is a US-based biostability company that develops technologies to stabilize, process, store, and ship biological samples at room temperature, eliminating dependence on traditional cold-chain logistics. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in San Diego, California, the company operates with a workforce of 11-50 employees, placing it in the small-cap life sciences tools segment. The company's core offering centers on proprietary room-temperature stabilization chemistries that preserve nucleic acids, proteins, and other biological analytes without refrigeration, addressing a structural pain point in biobanking, clinical sample logistics, and field research where cold-chain failures can compromise sample integrity.

Over its operating history, Biomatrica has raised approximately $27.4M across four disclosed funding rounds between February 2011 and December 2017. The 2011 round was led by In-Q-Tel — the U.S. intelligence community's venture arm — alongside Mesa Verde Venture Partners, indicating strategic relevance to government, defense, and biodefense applications in addition to the company's apparent core biomedical research, clinical diagnostics, and pharmaceutical customer base. Specific product SKUs, list pricing, distribution channels, and a detailed customer roster are not disclosed in available sources, so the company's go-to-market mechanics can only be characterized at a high level: a B2B consumables-and-platform model selling into regulated, technically demanding end markets where validated sample-handling workflows create stickiness.

Name

Biomatrica

Website

https://biomatrica.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2004

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Biomatrica is a San Diego biostability company (founded 2004, 11-50 employees) that develops room-temperature stabilization, processing, storage, and shipping technologies for biological samples, serving biomedical research, clinical diagnostics, pharmaceutical, and government/defense customers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Biological Sample Stabilization Reagents

NAICS

Biological Product (except Diagnostic) Manufacturing (325414)

SIC

Biological Products, (No Disgnostic Substances) (2836)

akta.pro primary industry

Packaging, Labeling & Serialization Services (biologics/cold chain) (HLAAAKAJ)

Keywords

• Biological sample stabilization
• Room temperature storage
• Biostability reagents
• Ambient temperature shipping
• Sample preservation chemistry

Headquarters

HQ city

San Diego

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Core offering

Biomatrica is a biostability company that develops and supplies technologies to stabilize, process, store, and ship biological samples at room temperature. The company's offerings replace traditional cold-chain handling (freezing, dry ice, refrigerated transport) with proprietary chemistries that preserve nucleic acids and other biospecimens at ambient conditions for research, clinical, and diagnostic workflows.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Biostability Reagents and Kits

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• DNA Genotek (OraSure Technologies): Direct competitor in ambient-temperature biological sample collection and stabilization (notably saliva DNA/RNA kits). Closest direct peer to Biomatrica's room-temperature stabilization technology.
• Streck: Manufactures stabilized blood collection tubes and molecular diagnostics reagents that preserve samples without immediate processing. Directly comparable in stabilization chemistry targeting clinical and research labs.
• Zymo Research: Provides DNA/RNA stabilization, collection, and purification reagents. Overlaps directly with Biomatrica's nucleic acid stabilization use cases in research and diagnostics.
• GenTegra: Specialist in room-temperature DNA/RNA stabilization products. Small, focused competitor closely comparable in technology approach and end markets.

Broad incumbents

• Qiagen: Global life-sciences incumbent offering sample stabilization, nucleic acid purification kits, and biobanking solutions. Competes with Biomatrica across research and clinical workflows but as part of a much broader portfolio.
• Thermo Fisher Scientific: Dominant life-sciences tools provider offering sample stabilization and storage reagents (e.g., Ambion, Invitrogen brands). Comparable end-customers and product categories, though Biomatrica is a niche specialist against this giant.
• Bio-Techne: Develops and commercializes biological reagents and sample-prep tools across proteomics and genomics. Overlaps with Biomatrica on reagent chemistries used by research and clinical customers.
• Merck KGaA (Sigma-Aldrich / MilliporeSigma): Major supplier of biological buffers, stabilizers, and reagents for sample preservation. Comparable in target customers and product overlap, though vastly larger and broader.

Regional players

• Brooks Life Sciences: Provider of biobanking storage services and consumables for biological samples. Adjacent comparability — same end-customers and cold-chain-vs-ambient dynamics — though focused on storage services rather than stabilization reagents.

Emerging players

• Akonni Biosystems: Small molecular diagnostics developer with sample preparation and stabilization components for nucleic acid testing. Emerging competitor with partial product overlap in ambient sample handling.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/Biomatrica
• Facebookfacebook.com/233577190022307
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/biomatrica

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds4 records

Investors2 records

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M&A

Investments

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