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Malva

The search platform for single-cell biology

Malva offers pharmaceutical teams, clinician-scientists, and translational researchers a revolutionary way to interrogate complex molecular data to answer complex, integrative questions that were previously impractical. Analyses that once required weeks or months can now be performed in seconds, unlocking insights and accelerating drug discovery, target identification, and therapeutic development.

The Problem

The world’s single-cell data is growing exponentially. The tools to search it haven’t kept up. Billions of cells have been sequenced and stored in public repositories. But finding a specific sequence across all of that data still requires downloading terabytes, running custom pipelines, and waiting days or weeks for results. That’s not an analysis problem. It’s a search problem.

The Solution

Malva is the search platform for single-cell and spatial biology. Query by sequence, gene, or plain language. Get results across 50M+ cells in seconds. Full metadata. Full provenance. No downloads, no preprocessing, no pipelines. It doesn’t replace your analysis tools. It sits upstream: find the right data first, then analyze it with whatever you already use. What about your own data? It fits right in. Index it securely and make it instantly searchable alongside public datasets.

Looking for

The team is looking for a business lead and partnerships with biotech firms and large pharmaceutical companies for case studies.
 

Founding Team

Funded by

Berlin Institute of Health — Digital Health Accelerator

Website

https://dha.bihealth.org/project/malva/