What Cradle does
Cradle is an AI software platform for protein engineering used in drug discovery and biotechnology. It helps scientists generate protein candidates, design variants with desired properties, and use machine learning models trained on their own experimental data to guide each successive round of engineering, with the goal of achieving results in fewer experiments.
Key capabilities
The platform supports AI-driven candidate generation and the simultaneous optimization of multiple protein properties such as binding affinity, stability, expression, and activity. Scientists upload experimental results to iteratively improve predictive models, and organizations can train proprietary models on their own data, which remains private. Cradle includes enterprise security features such as SOC 2 compliance and single sign-on, and the company operates its own wet lab in Amsterdam to validate and improve model performance.
Who it's for
Cradle serves biopharma R&D teams, industrial biotech companies, and academic researchers working on antibodies, enzymes, vaccines, peptides, and other protein-based products.