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Kingdom

New York, NY, USA18+ employeesSeries A raised
Natural functional ingredients that actually work

Natural functional ingredients that actually work

YC S20

About the Company

Kingdom creates and sells Superculture® ingredients. Our Superculture® ingredients are an entirely new class of clinically-validated postbiotics that target the root causes of unmet pet health needs. Superculture® Pet Oral and Superculture® Pet Immune are our first two breakthrough ingredients, driving industry-leading efficacy and unlocking new marketing claims for brands.

Tech Stack

Our team brings together world-class expertise in the microbiome and genomics fields, who have published nearly a dozen first-author papers in top journals like Science, Nature Biotech, and Nature Methods. Our technology platform allows us to access broad swaths of unexplored microbial diversity, to screen these strains for novel functionalities, and to assemble them into novel, stable microbial communities using proprietary experimental and computational approaches

Our work is defining an entirely new engineering discipline, in which we are building the capacity to design new microbial communities from scratch within a nearly infinite design space. This combines robotic and software automation, high throughput screening, microbiology, data science and statistics, machine learning, and genomics and in a highly collaborative and interdisciplinary environment.

Founders

Kendall Dabaghi
Kendall Dabaghi

I'm a co-founder of Kingdom. Previously, I co-founded two consumer tech startups that were acquired by public companies (ArmorHub in 2014 and A Plus in 2016). Throughout my life I've dealt with a set of health issues related to my microbiome, and became a microbiome researcher in 2016 to develop deep expertise in the area. I deferred my PhD at MIT to co-found Kingdom in 2019, with the goal of harnessing natural microbes to address unmet health needs.

Ravi Sheth
Ravi Sheth

I'm a co-founder of Kingdom. I received my PhD from Columbia supported by Hertz and NSF fellowships, and published 8+ first author papers in the microbiome and genomics fields (Science, Nature Biotech, Nature Methods, and more). I also spent time at the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation working on childhood malnutrition, and co-founded a edtech company in college (STEAMtrax) that was acquired by a public company.

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