Malva
The search platform for single-cell biology
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/