# Slingshot Biosciences

- **Website:** <https://slingshotbio.com>
- **Primary alias:** `slingshotbio.com`
- **Founded:** 2012
- **Employees:** 51+
- **Location:** Emeryville, California, United States
- **Company kind:** PRIVATELY HELD

## Description

Slingshot Bio develops engineered cell mimics and controls for flow cytometry, offering a reproducible alternative to conventional controls. Designed to support consistent results across laboratory workflows, its products serve applications including compensation, spectral unmixing, immunophenotyping, viability testing, instrument calibration, standardization, and quantitative antigen-density measurement. The portfolio includes ViaComp, SpectraComp, FlowCytes, PhenoCytes, StimCytes, FluoroCytes, NanoCytes, ScatterBridge, QuantCytes, and TruCytes, with options such as white blood cell, T-cell, TBNK, CD34+ stem cell, and custom mimics. Slingshot Bio also provides controls for cell activation and exhaustion, fluorescence, and instrument performance. Its solutions are intended for biopharma, academic and core laboratories, clinical research organizations, and instrument manufacturers, supporting work in areas such as cell therapy manufacturing, clinical-trial analysis, and rare biomarker screening. To help researchers plan experiments, the company offers a free Panel Builder for selecting markers and fluorophores and assessing spectral overlap. Additional resources include application notes, technical data, case studies, webinars, videos, and scientific publications.

## Industries

- ⛑ Biotechnology and Pharmaceuticals _(under Health)_
- ⛑ Health

## Links

- [linkedin](https://linkedin.com/company/slingshot-biosciences)
- [instagram](https://instagram.com/slingshotbiosciences)
- [twitter](https://twitter.com/slingshotbio)

## Logos & icons

- logo _(primary)_ — PNG, SVG — [download](https://cdn.brandfetch.io/idQ7Ljpbrd/w/820/h/820/theme/dark/logo.png?c=1bxid64Mup7aczewSAYMX&t=1783553477493)
- icon _(primary)_ — JPEG — [download](https://cdn.brandfetch.io/idQ7Ljpbrd/w/400/h/400/theme/dark/icon.jpeg?c=1bxid64Mup7aczewSAYMX&t=1791735955134)

## Colors

| Name | Hex | Theme |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Persian Blue | #1032cf | accent |
| Ebony | #0a0f1e | dark |
| Danube | #7ba6db | light |

## Fonts

- var(--bs-body-font-family) — asset _(custom)_
- Open Sans — asset _(google)_
- var(--font-sans) — asset _(custom)_

## Imagery

- banner _(primary)_ — JPEG — [download](https://cdn.brandfetch.io/idQ7Ljpbrd/w/1500/h/500/idCduX9cPK.jpeg?c=1bxid64Mup7aczewSAYMX&t=1791735955263)

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