Kian Deaves
Co-Founder & CEO, GeneLoop
Founder profile
Building the software layer for programmable biology.
I am building GeneLoop because the software stack used to engineer biology still feels fragmented, manual, and disconnected from the way modern AI systems can reason and iterate.
Mission
Make biology easier to engineer
Researchers should spend more time asking better scientific questions and less time stitching together brittle tools. GeneLoop is aimed at the gap between intent and execution: design the construct, inspect the biology, generate the protocol, evaluate the result, and feed the next iteration with structured evidence.
Focus
Where I spend my time
AI for biological design
Agentic workflows that reason over sequence design, cloning strategy, assay context, and experimental constraints.
Synthetic biology infrastructure
Plasmid editing, protocol planning, CRISPR design, and lab automation built into one scientific workspace.
Computational biology systems
RAG, model evaluation, structured biological data, and software foundations for closed-loop discovery.
Principle
The product thesis
Biology needs tools that can preserve experimental context, make constraints explicit, and turn every design session into useful data. The long-term opportunity is a closed loop where scientists, models, and lab automation improve each other instead of living in separate systems.
Work