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Redesigning Nature's Biology

Asperitas is a platform synthetic biology company translating raw biodiversity datasets into programmable products. We study specialized adaptations in non-model organisms to design novel biological pathways.

What We Do

Asperitas Inc. is a platform synthetic biology company that discovers novel biological intelligence from the world's biodiversity and converts it into programmable products. We operate a vertically integrated pipeline — from sourcing rare and non-model organisms through global field networks, to analyzing their genetic, protein, and metabolic data with our proprietary Biological Knowledge Graph and AI, and finally engineering validated synthetic biology products.

Where traditional biotech relies on a narrow set of model organisms, Asperitas explores the vast, untapped reservoir of specialized adaptations found in nature — bioluminescent pathways, neurotoxin biosynthesis, extremophile resilience — and translates these into scalable applications across therapeutics, agriculture, industrial materials, and living design.

Headquartered in Delaware, USA, and incorporated as a C-Corporation, Asperitas maintains sourcing operations across 31+ countries and adheres strictly to international biodiversity conservation protocols including CITES and the Nagoya Protocol (ABS).

31+

Countries with active sourcing operations

100+

Rare species in our biodiversity portfolio

30K+

Specimens distributed globally since 2019

Leadership

Minseo Kim

Minseo Kim

Founder & CEO

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Minjae Kim

Minjae Kim

CTO

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Beomseok Oh

Beomseok Oh

COO & AI Lead

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Eunseong Lee

Eunseong Lee

CFO

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Faculty

Juwon Ham

Juwon Ham

Faculty

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Junsoo Bae

Junsoo Bae

Faculty

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Advisory

Join the Frontier of Biology

We are looking for computational biologists, synthetic biologists, machine learning engineers, and operational pioneers who are eager to expand natural intelligence into programmable products.

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