Hermes Life Sciences
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Hermes Life Sciences was a Rockville, Maryland diagnostics startup founded in 2020 by Sasank Vemulapati, developing point-of-care blood testing solutions to make accurate diagnostics more accessible, later focusing on infectious-disease tests. It operated on grant funding, including a National Science Foundation award, and later rebranded as Lo Bio.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Company founded
Sasank Vemulapati founds Hermes Life Sciences in Rockville, Maryland to build point-of-care blood testing solutions.
- Funding round
The company receives a $925K National Science Foundation grant to advance its point-of-care diagnostics work.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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