Exactics Has A Lab

CEO Julian Kage and CSO Sean Greeby in Exactics Lab Suite in Hyde Park Labs

To kick off our next R&D phase, this May—in the middle of UChicago's finals week and only 4 days away from UChicago's Social New Venture Challenge final round—CEO Julian Kage and CSO Sean Greeby bought last-minute plane tickets to Boston. They had gotten a text at 11:31pm the night before about a fire sale of lab equipment in the area, and that was all they needed to know.

Only a few hours after their plane landed, Sean and Julian were carefully packing up over approximately half a million dollars' worth of research equipment (which they managed to get for pennies on the dollar) into a U-Haul for a 17-hour cross country road trip back to Chicago. Allegedly, they only listened to Deftones and only stopped at Taco Bell.

When they arrived back in Chicago, they were met by cofounders Dylan Murray, Max Almeida, and Zach Sarmoen. The entire team was up until 5am unpacking, cataloging, and repacking each lab item. After a quick nap, Exactics was back at it, spending the next day carefully putting everything into storage.

In June, most of that equipment found a new home in Hyde Park Labs, our new lab space. Since then, Exactics has welcomed research interns out of UChicago's biology program. With the bigger team and the new equipment, Exactics has been able to run the first protocols of our expansion projects.