Traditional drug development processes aren’t able to support the unique needs of rare diseases, which affect 1 in 10 people worldwide. Important information from patient medical records is often trapped in hospitals or kept private, inaccessible to researchers who need it. Patients often have limited visibility and influence over how their information is being used for research.
AllStripes aims to change that. We do hard work behind the scenes to ensure that patients’ medical information is as accessible, accurate, and usable as possible for medical researchers, while putting patients in control of their own data. By leveraging modern technology and data science, we empower patients to remove the barriers to treatment development at every step of the way.
We are going through a period of huge growth with biopharma partners. With one of our partners, it will be the first time that a patient can sign up on a website and have his or her medical information be used directly to support an FDA approval of a drug for a rare condition. We're really excited by this, and believe it will be game-changing in the rare disease and drug development world.
Our team, investors, and advisors are exceptional. Our CEO was previously Head of Corporate Development at 23andme. Our Head of Product previously led product teams at Roche, Stride Health, athenahealth, and worked in rare disease research. Our Head of Engineering was previously CTO at two consumer tech companies and is both an excellent engineer and mentor. We raised from top healthtech and consumer investors: Lux Capital, Village Global, Shasta Ventures, and the CEOs/execs of 23andme, Flatiron Health, Clover Health, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Livongo, Forward, McKesson, Apple Health, and Freenome. The people surrounding the company are the kindest, smartest, most mission-driven people we know.
We're a very different company - we're building both a consumer (patient)-facing web application as well as an FDA-grade decentralized data structuring platform. Thus, we tackle super interesting technical challenges across a modern stack, working on UI/UX components for patients, remote data extractors, and internal tools, as well as interesting logic challenges around data architecture and biopharma needs.
We value empathy and collaboration combined with individual responsibility and creativity. Our organization if flat, transparent, and dynamic. Every team member has full ownership of part of the product, including UI/UX, data modeling, and operations. We run weekly sprints, daily check-ins, and cross-functional 1-1s. All engineers work closely together with non-technical team members. It's part of the attraction of working here - you can work directly with clients and cross functionally with other depts.
From one of our engineers: "For me most important is that one is working on the latest and greatest in terms of product engineering technologies. The second is defining and designing a system from the ground up that needs to be really robust, stable, and scalable, which is probably the most difficult and interesting part for me. The third might just be the fact you're working on so many different things. It's the opportunity to truly own a product."