What Suspended Animation does

Suspended Animation is a privately held U.S. biotechnology company founded in 2002 that develops and deploys hypothermia-inducing techniques to extend the viability window of human cells and tissues. Its core commercial activity is providing standby, stabilization, and transport services for cryonics patients who have pre-arranged funding and paperwork with cryonics storage providers, primarily across the continental United States on a 24/7 on-call basis. The company also extends similar rapid-cooling stabilization services to non-transplantable tissue and organ donors.

Its technology portfolio rests on three pillars: extracorporeal bypass cooling (surgical circulation of blood through a heat exchanger for rapid, uniform body cooling), a liquid ventilation system being co-developed with Critical Care Research that uses the lungs as heat exchangers for non-surgical out-of-hospital cooling, and biomarker research studying gene expression following cardiac arrest and during hypothermia to identify treatment targets. The company operates two mobile operating room vehicles (a customized Florida shuttle bus and a Southern California van) and maintains three air-transportable stabilization kits, supported by a network of more than 40 contracted Board-certified surgeons, perfusionists, and emergency/critical care professionals trained at its Boynton Beach, Florida training facility. Its headquarters and laboratories are in Lake Forest, California.

The business model is professional services: revenue is generated through stabilization and transport engagements rather than product sales, with customers routed via cryonics storage providers rather than direct-to-consumer marketing. Pricing is not publicly disclosed, no funding rounds are recorded, and the company has no disclosed institutional investors, parent entity, or subsidiary structure. The company has explicitly signaled a broader mission beyond cryopreservation — extending its hypothermia protocols to victims of cardiac arrest, stroke, and trauma — but the commercial scale of those adjacent applications is not documented in the available data.

Name

Suspended Animation

Legal name

Suspended Animation

Website

https://suspendedanimationlabs.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2002

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Suspended Animation is a U.S. biotechnology company founded in 2002 that provides 24/7 hypothermia-based standby, stabilization, and transport services for cryonics patients and non-transplantable tissue donors across the continental United States, using extracorporeal cooling and a network of contracted medical professionals.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Cryopreservation Stabilization Services

NAICS

Ambulance Services (62191)

SIC

Electromedical & Electrotherapeutic Apparatus (3845)

akta.pro primary industry

Cryogenic Logistics (LN2 Dry Shippers, -150°C) (HLAGAMAB)

akta.pro secondary industry

Ventilators & Mechanical Ventilation Systems (ICU/Transport/Home) (HLAHAGAC)

Keywords

• Hypothermia stabilization services
• Cryopreservation transport
• Emergency medical stabilization
• Tissue preservation technology
• Cardiac arrest recovery services

Headquarters

HQ city

Lake Forest

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Stabilization Services: Professional medical services for tissue stabilization including rapid cooling, medications, cardiopulmonary support and perfusion with organ preservation solution. Provided to cryonics patients and non-transplantable tissue donors.
2. Transport Services: Recovery and transport services for whole body and tissue donors, including stabilization and transport of human cryopreservation patients across the continental United States.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Suspended Animation provides standby, stabilization, and transport services for human cryopreservation patients and non-transplantable tissue donors across the continental United States. Services are delivered 24/7 by contracted teams of Board-certified surgeons, perfusionists, and emergency/critical care professionals using proprietary hypothermic techniques such as extracorporeal bypass cooling and cardiopulmonary support with organ preservation solution. The company also conducts hypothermia-related research (including biomarker studies and liquid ventilation technology co-developed with Critical Care Research) and offers a quarterly training program for medical professionals at its Florida facility.

Product overview

Suspended Animation offers a suite of hypothermia-based stabilization and transport services for cryopreservation patients and organ/tissue donors. The core offering consists of hypothermic stabilization procedures using extracorporeal bypass cooling, with emerging liquid ventilation technology being developed for out-of-hospital rapid cooling. The company maintains two mobile operating room vehicles and three air-transportable stabilization kits across Florida and California, supported by over 40 contracted medical professionals available 24/7. Additionally, Suspended Animation provides biomarker research services and a quarterly training program for medical professionals at its Florida facility.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Standby, Stabilization and Transport Services 24/7 standby, hypothermic stabilization, and transport services for human cryopreservation patients and non-transplantable tissue donors. Teams of contracted medical professionals deploy with air-transportable stabilization kits and mobile operating room vehicles across the continental United States. Service includes rapid cooling, medications, cardiopulmonary support, and perfusion with organ preservation solution.
• Extracorporeal Bypass Cooling Surgical procedure that circulates blood outside the body through a heat exchanger to rapidly and uniformly cool the patient; typically performed at the bedside.
• Liquid Ventilation Cooling System

Quantifiable outcome

• Cells begin dying within minutes of cardiac arrest but with intervention can remain viable for longer

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Critical Care ResearchcoreTechnology or IntegrationCollaborative development partnership for liquid ventilation technology. Critical Care Research is a California laboratory working with Suspended Animation to create a rugged, portable liquid ventilation unit capable of being easily used by first responders treating patients outside of a hospital environment.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Cryonics Institute: Michigan-based cryonics storage provider with a member-funded standby and transport program. Comparable in serving the same cryonics patient population with stabilization and transport, though structured as a member cooperative rather than a for-profit services firm.
• BioLife Solutions: Supplier of biopreservation tools, cold storage, and cell/tissue preservation media. Comparable in underlying preservation technology and cold-chain logistics expertise, though focused on regenerative medicine and cell therapy customers rather than cryonics.
• Oregon Cryonics: Smaller US cryonics organization providing standby and transport for its members. Comparable niche and similar service model, but smaller scale and primarily serves the Pacific Northwest.
• Alcor Life Extension Foundation: One of the largest US cryonics storage providers that has historically relied on Suspended Animation for standby and transport. Comparable as a player in the cryonics service stack, though Alcor's primary focus is long-term storage and member operations.
• Paragonix Technologies: Medical device company developing organ preservation and transport systems for transplant. Comparable in the underlying business of preserving and moving biological tissue under hypothermic conditions, though focused on transplant organs rather than cryonics patients.
• Tomorrow Biostasis: European cryonics provider offering standby, stabilization, and transport services for cryopreservation patients. Most directly comparable peer: same niche, similar standby/transport model, and overlapping customer base (pre-arranged cryonics patients), but operating in Europe rather than the US.

Others

• Critical Care Research: California research laboratory co-developing Suspended Animation's portable liquid ventilation system. Not a commercial competitor, but a strategic R&D partner with overlapping research focus on out-of-hospital hypothermic therapy.

Broad incumbents

• ZOLL Medical Corporation: Large medical device company offering therapeutic hypothermia products (e.g., Thermogard) for cardiac arrest and trauma care. Comparable in developing and deploying hypothermic treatment technology, though ZOLL operates at much greater scale with a broad emergency-care portfolio.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/Suspended-Animation-Inc-100069340922103

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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