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Public · LSE:ONT.LFor profitBiotechnologyOxford, United Kingdom

Oxford Nanopore Technologies

Oxford Nanopore Technologies is a biotechnology company that develops and commercializes nanopore sequencing technology.

Founded
2005
21 years ago
Staff
501-1000
1,334 on LinkedIn
Followers
117k
on LinkedIn
Funding
$1.1B
as listed, USD

Our goal is to enable the analysis of anything, anywhere, by anyone. We have developed the world’s first and only nanopore DNA and RNA sequencing platform. It’s a new generation of sequencing technology, the only one to offer: scalability to portable or ultra-high throughput formats, real-time data delivery, and the ability to elucidate rich biological data. We are aiming to disrupt the way that biological analyses are currently performed, and open up new applications that have a profound, positive impact on… Read all

Our goal is to enable the analysis of anything, anywhere, by anyone. We have developed the world’s first and only nanopore DNA and RNA sequencing platform. It’s a new generation of sequencing technology, the only one to offer: scalability to portable or ultra-high throughput formats, real-time data delivery, and the ability to elucidate rich biological data. We are aiming to disrupt the way that biological analyses are currently performed, and open up new applications that have a profound, positive impact on society. Our devices offer real-time analysis, for rapid insights, in fully scalable formats, from pocket to population scale, and the technology is being used in more than 100 countries worldwide. Founded in 2005 as a spin-out from the University of Oxford, the company now employs more than 600 people from multiple disciplines including nanopore science, molecular biology and applications, informatics, engineering, electronics, manufacturing and commercialisation. The management team, led by CEO Dr Gordon Sanghera, has a track record of delivering disruptive technologies to the market.

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Size

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501-1000 people: larger than 95% of companies with a size listed. 1,334 people list it on LinkedIn.

Age

200519002026

21 years old.

Reach

Website ranked #269,326 in the world for traffic, about 150k visits a month. 116,564 followers on LinkedIn.

What it does

BiopharmaBiotechnologyGeneticsHealth DiagnosticsNanotechnologyDNA sequencingNext Generation Sequencing

Funding, as listed

$1.1B raised in total

  • Rounds20
  • LatestPost ipo equity, Aug 2024
  • Latest amountUSD 63,638,412
  • Investors23, 9 leading

What the source datasets report. We have not watched these rounds ourselves.

FoundersGordon Sanghera, Hagan Bayley, Spike Willcocks
Apps7 · 3 downloads

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The company

Name
Oxford Nanopore Technologies
Type
For profit
Status
Public · LSE:ONT.L
Founded
2005
Founders
Gordon Sanghera, Hagan Bayley, Spike Willcocks
Industry
Biotechnology
Categories
Biopharma, Biotechnology, Genetics, Health Diagnostics, Nanotechnology
Specialities
DNA sequencing, Next Generation Sequencing

Where

City
Oxford
Country
United Kingdom
Markets
Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)

Size and reach

Staff band
501-1000
People on LinkedIn
1,334
LinkedIn followers
116,564
Web traffic rank
#269,326
Monthly web visits
150,018
Apps
7
App downloads
3

Funding, as listed

Total
$1,114,637,500 USD
Rounds
20
Latest round
Post ipo equity
Latest round date
Aug 2024
Latest amount
63,638,412 USD
Investors
23
Lead investors
9
Stock listing
LSE:ONT.L
Listing status
public

About this record

Sources
Crunchbase, LinkedIn
Last imported
Sept 2026

Growth, as the source summarises it

Oxford Nanopore Technologies reported widening losses, delaying its break-even point. The company has also entered into strategic collaborations, including a partnership with SeqOne for rare disease DNA diagnostics and another with Plasmidsaurus to advance plasmid sequencing. Additionally, Oxford Nanopore Technologies has made a strategic shift targeting growth.

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