News and Events News and Events You'll find company information, news releases, official logos, and downloadable high-res photos here. Latest News February 2, 2026 Clear Labs Clear Labs is Rebranding our Infectious Disease Portfolio Clear Labs will be transitioning the name of our infectious disease RUO portfolio from Clear Dx™ to Clear Ix™. This change is part of a broader effort to clearly distinguish our... Read Article November 14, 2025 PRWeb Clear Labs Showcases Oncology NGS Automation Initiatives and Announces Collaboration with Labcorp Clear Labs announced its expanded automation platform and collaboration with Labcorp to develop streamlined, oncology-focused NGS workflows, marking its move beyond infectious disease sequencing... Read Article November 13, 2025 PRWeb Clear Labs Unveils Automated Workflow Featuring Pillar Biosciences' SLIMamp® Technology at AMP 2025 Clear Labs announced a new automated workflow featuring Pillar Biosciences' SLIMamp® chemistry on the Clear Dx™ platform, debuting at the AMP Annual Meeting. The collaboration expands Clear... Read Article November 1, 2025 Association for Molecular Pathology Clear Labs Debuting Oncology Solution at AMP 2025 in Boston, MA Clear Labs will be showcasing our latest venture into the Oncology space during the Innovation Spotlight Stage (ISS #3) on 11/13/2025 at AMP 2025, featuring Ramin Khaksar, CSO & COO of Clear... Read Article August 26, 2025 PRWeb Clear Labs Launches Clear Dx™ Deeplex® Myc-TB, An Automated Solution for Mycobacterium Species Identification and TB Drug Resistance Mutations Clear Labs, a leader in automated genomic sequencing solutions, is proud to announce the release of its latest product, Clear Dx™ Deeplex® Myc-TB, an automated version of the widely used... Read Article July 31, 2025 The Acheson Group Joint Webinar by Clear Labs and The Acheson Group Addressing Automation of NGS and Regulatory Landscape for Food Safety Testing Join Clear Labs' Director of Product Management, Kyle Rhoden, and TAG's COO & EVP of Regulatory & Scientific Affairs, Benjamin Miller, for a webinar on August 25, 2025 from 10 - 11 am PDT (1 - 2... Read Article June 4, 2025 PRWeb Clear Labs Launches New Fully Automated NGS Platform for Rapid Bacterial and Fungal Detection from Sterile Site Specimens Clear Labs announced the launch of its newest innovation: an enhanced Clear Dx™ System with additional capabilities and the Clear Dx™ Microbial ID tNGS assay workflow. This end-to-end... Read Article April 30, 2025 American Society for Microbiology Clear Labs will be Presenting and Exhibiting at ASM Microbe 2025 in Los Angeles, CA Clear Labs will be exhibiting at ASM Microbe 2025 (6/19/2025 - 6/23/2025) in Los Angeles, CA. Come join us at Booth #2005 to learn more about our latest scientific advances and check out our... Read Article April 21, 2025 GenomeWeb Clear Labs to Expand Foothold in Sequencing-Based Pathogen Testing Last month, the San Carlos, California-based company said that following an evaluation of its technology, its Clear Dx platform can now be used by labs as part of the US Food and Drug... Read Article April 1, 2025 Association of Public Health Laboratories Clear Labs will be Presenting and Exhibiting at APHL 2025 in Portland, OR Clear Labs will be hosting an Innovate Session on 5/7/2025 at APHL 2025, featuring Bureau Chief Dr Marie-Claire Rowlinson from the Florida Bureau of Public Health Laboratories, application... Read Article March 1, 2025 Association of Public Health Laboratories Clear Labs will be Presenting and Exhibiting at APHL ID Lab Con 2025 in Pasadena, CA Clear Labs will be exhibiting at APHL ID Lab Con 2025 (3/25/2025 - 3/27/2025) in Pasadena, CA. Come join us at Booth #707 to learn more about our latest product offerings and check out our... Read Article February 12, 2025 Great Entrepreneurs The Top 50 Healthcare AI Entrepreneurs of 2025 We’re proud to announce that our Co-founder and CEO, Sasan Amini, has been recognized as one of the Top 50 Healthcare AI Entrepreneurs of 2025 by Great Entrepreneurs! This honor highlights... Read Article January 13, 2025 PRWeb Clear Labs Secures $30 Million in Series D Financing to Accelerate Development and Adoption of Cutting-Edge Sequencing Solutions This round of financing was led by a strategic investor, along with participation from existing investors, including Counterpoint Global (Morgan Stanley), Felicis, GV, HBM Genomics, Khosla... Read Article January 7, 2025 Precision Medicine World Conference 2025 Clear Labs CSO and COO Ramin Khaksar to Present at the PMWC 2025 Clinical & Research Tools Showcase Clear Labs’ Dr. Ramin Khaksar, will be presenting on 2/7/2025 at 11:30 am PT on “Fully-Automated NGS Solution for Infectious Disease Identification and Characterization”. Read Article July 19, 2024 International Journal of Molecular Sciences New Publication Available: The Next Frontier in Tuberculosis Investigation A fully automated bacteria whole genome sequencing (WGS) assay was evaluated to characterize Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) and non-tuberculosis Mycobacterium (NTM) clinical isolates. The... Read Article July 1, 2024 International Association for Food Protection Annual Meeting 2024 Clear Labs CSO and COO Ramin Khaksar to Co-Present with Aviagen’s Laboratory Director Lola Crespo at IAFP 2024 Annual Meeting Clear Labs' Dr. Ramin Khaksar and Aviagen's Laboratory Director Dr. Lola Crespo will be co-presenting at IAFP 2024 Symposia S50 on 7/17/2024 between 8:30 - 10am PT in Room 104AB. Read Article June 3, 2024 American Society of Microbiology Microbe 2024 Meeting Clear Labs Presenting and Exhibiting at ASM Microbe 2024 Clear Labs will be exhibiting at ASM Microbe 2024 (6/14/2024 - 6/16/2024) in Atlanta, GA. Come join us at Booth #617 to learn more about our latest scientific advances and check out our poster. Read Article May 1, 2024 Annual Conference of the Association of Public Health Laboratories 2024 Clear Labs Presenting and Exhibiting at APHL 2024 Clear Labs will be hosting an Innovate Session on 5/7/2024 at APHL 2024, featuring Research Scientist Samantha Wirth from Wadsworth Center, NYSDOH. Come join us at Booth 404/406 to learn more. Read Article February 28, 2024 Journal of Food Protection New Publication Available: Targeted Next-Generation Sequencing Assay for Direct Detection and Serotyping of Salmonella from Enrichment In this study, an automated, targeted next-generation sequencing (tNGS) assay to detect and serotype Salmonella from sample enrichments was evaluated. The assay generates millions of reads to... Read Article February 18, 2024 Clear Labs New Features Available for Microbial Surveillance WGS The Clear Dx™ Microbial Surveillance WGS platform can now accommodate additional sample input types including heat-inactivated bacterial isolates, extracted DNA, and cultured MTB. Read Article January 5, 2024 Precision Medicine World Conference 2024 Clear Labs CSO and COO Ramin Khaksar to Present at the PMWC 2024 Sequencing Technologies Showcase Clear Labs’ Dr. Ramin Khaksar, will be presenting on 1/26/2024 at 9:30 am PT on “Fully Automated Genomics Solution to Profile AMR for Better Antibiotic Stewardship”. Read Article November 13, 2023 Clear Labs Clear Labs Launches Wastewater Sequencing Solution Clear Labs announces the launch of Clear Dx™ FlexPro: Wastewater (SARS-CoV-2), a fully automated end-to-end whole genome sequencing (WGS) solution for sequencing SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater. Read Article July 3, 2023 International Association for Food Protection Annual Meeting 2023 Clear Labs CSO and COO Ramin Khaksar to Present at IAFP 2023 Annual Meeting Clear Labs' Dr Ramin Khaksar will be presenting a poster on the capability of our Clear Safety Salmonella solution to simultaneously detect and serotype Salmonella directly from enrichment... Read Article June 1, 2023 American Society of Microbiology Microbe 2023 Meeting Clear Labs Presenting and Exhibiting at ASM Microbe 2023 Clear Labs will be exhibiting at ASM Microbe 2023 (6/15/2023 - 6/19/2023) in Houston, TX. Come join us at Booth #1709 to learn more about our latest scientific advances and check out our poster. Read Article May 30, 2023 PRWeb Clear Labs Launches Microbial Surveillance Whole Genome Sequencing Solution Clear Labs announces the launch of the Clear Dx™ Microbial Surveillance WGS, a fully-automated, end-to-end whole genome sequencing (WGS) solution for bacterial and fungal isolates. Read Article May 1, 2023 Annual Conference of the Association of Public Health Laboratories 2023 Clear Labs Presenting and Exhibiting at APHL 2023 Clear Labs is hosting an Innovate Session on 5/23/2023 at APHL 2023, featuring Asst. Professor Michael Wiley and Dr. Mark Pandori from NSPHL. Come join us at Booth 506/508 to learn more. Read Article March 1, 2023 APHL ID Lab Conference 2023 Clear Labs Presenting and Exhibiting at APHL ID Lab Con 2023 Clear Labs will be exhibiting at APHL ID Lab Con 2023 (3/13/2023 - 3/15/2023) in Atlanta, GA. Join us at Booth #218 to learn more about our latest scientific advances and see our poster. Read Article January 3, 2023 Precision Medicine World Conference 2023 Clear Labs CSO and COO Ramin Khaksar to Present at the PMWC 2023 Sequencing Technologies Showcase Clear Labs' Dr. Ramin Khaksar, will be presenting on 1/27/2023 at 1:30pm PT on "Automated Pathogen-Agnostic, Isolate Whole Genome Sequencing". Read Article December 1, 2022 Health Tech World 28 Health Tech Innovations Which are Truly Changing Healthcare Who is having a real impact on healthcare and digital health? Which innovations will positively affect healthcare in 2023? Here’s the Health Tech World longlist of some of the most prominent... Read Article November 11, 2022 Genome Web Clear Labs Pushing Automated Whole-Genome Sequencing Into Clinical Market for Infection Control During the pandemic, Clear Labs expanded the market for its automated sequencing system from environmental pathogen detection in the food industry to SARS-CoV-2 surveillance and wastewater... Read Article October 20, 2022 BioProcess International From Immigrant to Entrepreneur: Lessons Learned in Building an Innovative Business As an entrepreneur, I stepped away from a fulfilling position in a large and established company to go out on my own and build something new. My decision to leave the advanced research... Read Article October 19, 2022 Medical Laboratory Observer (MLO) News State of the industry 2022: Molecular diagnostics The 2022 Medical Laboratory Observer (MLO) State of the Industry (SOI) survey on molecular diagnostics revealed some intriguing insights on the use of molecular testing by U.S. labs for COVID-19... Read Article October 11, 2022 PRWeb Clear Labs to Present at IDWeek on Role of Whole Genome Sequencing in Hospitals Clear Labs announced plans to attend key events in October that are focused on microbiology, pathogen surveillance, and outbreak management, including sponsoring and presenting at this year’s... Read Article August 16, 2022 npj Science of Food The Power, Potential, Benefits, and Challenges of Implementing High-Throughput Sequencing in Food Safety Systems The paper presents a review of recent advances in high-throughput sequencing (HTS) and its impacts on the food industry and three U.S. federal agencies: CDC, FDA, and USDA FSIS. Read Article August 2, 2022 Clear Labs Clear Safety Salmonella: Automated Targeted NGS Detection and Serotyping from Sample Enrichment This IAFP scientific poster presented how Clear Safety Salmonella uses an automated NGS-based platform to detect Salmonella and identify the most common serotypes from sample enrichments. Read Article July 27, 2022 PRWeb Clear Labs to Present at IAFP Annual Meeting of 4,000 Global Food Safety Experts Clear Labs will present a scientific poster that showcases the power of sequencing for detecting Salmonella and identifying the most common serotypes. Read Article July 25, 2022 PRWeb Clear Labs to Lead Session on Whole Genome Sequencing at AACC Annual Scientific Meeting in Chicago Clear Labs, an innovator in next-generation sequencing, showcases solutions at premier global scientific technologies event. Read Article July 11, 2022 PRWeb Clear Labs Expands Leadership Team with Appointment of Edward Fan as Chief Financial Officer Clear Labs, an NGS innovator, hires healthcare finance leader to support the mission to liberate genomics to all. Read Article June 22, 2022 PMWC Clear Labs CSO Speaks at Genomic Profiling Showcase Dr. Ramin Khaksar, Chief Scientific Officer and Chief Operating Officer, will be speaking at the Precision Medicine World Conference on June 29th 2022 - 4.15pm PST - Track 7. Read Article June 8, 2022 Food Navigator How next-gen sequencing tech is advancing food safety testing technologies As the food industry champions full transparency, genomics testing provider Clear Labs has developed surveillance to increase accuracy and efficiency in food safety diagnostics. Read Article June 7, 2022 PRWeb Clear Labs to Address NGS for Near Real-Time Surveillance and Outbreak Response at ASM Microbe 2022 in Washington, D.C. Clear Labs CSO and COO Ramin Khaksar is leading a session about the value of Near Real-Time Surveillance for Outbreak Response, while CEO Sasan Amini will join Dr. Khaksar at the close of the... Read Article June 6, 2022 Ingredients Network Automation meets advanced technology to maximize food safety Food safety testing technologies, such as Clear Labs' automation and next-generation sequencing methods, are instrumental to building industry transparency, consumer confidence, and detecting... Read Article May 31, 2022 The Tech Tribune Clear Labs CEO Sasan Amini is Profiled by The Tech Tribune Sasan shares his startup entrepreneur experiences, challenges, and how he grew Clear Lab to be one of Tech Tribune’s 2022 Best Tech Startups in San Carlos. Read Article May 31, 2022 The Tech Tribune The Tech Tribune Nominated Clear Labs to be One of the 2022 Best Tech Startups in San Carlos Clear Labs was found in 2014. With a novel approach, Clear Labs is helping the world better understand, track and mitigate tomorrow’s novel pathogens. Read Article May 19, 2022 APHL Press Release Clear Labs Presents New Science at the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) Annual Conference Clear Labs' experts in automated next-generation sequencing workflow solutions presented a scientific poster, panel, and lecture on novel technologies for pathogen and public health surveillance. Read Article April 28, 2022 CBS News COVID Detectives: A look inside Bay Area lab hunting for new variants of COVID Clear Labs CEO Sasan Amini talks to CBS about the increasingly important role of genomics and how our next-generation sequencing technology is helping public health labs continue to understand... Read Article April 28, 2022 Medical Laboratory Observer (MLO) News The impact of next-gen sequencing on tracking SARS-CoV-2 variants How ClearDx helps public health to detect the COVID19 variants and improves sequencing workflows Read Article April 28, 2022 Food Quality and Safety How Advances in Food Testing Technology Help Fight SARS-CoV-2 A new article in Food Quality and Safety describes how innovations in automating genomics developed for food testing were used to fight the SARS-CoV-2 global pandemic. Read Article April 19, 2022 Clear Labs White Paper Comparison of Clear Safety Listeria with Conventional Methodologies for Listeria Detection and Speciation A new white paper describes how Clear Safety Listeria and qPCR achieved 100% accuracy in detection while ELISA-1 (28.6% false negative rate) and ELISA-2 (23.8% false negative rate) failed to... Read Article March 31, 2022 Clear Labs White Paper The Clear DX Rapid, Fully Automated Whole Genome Sequencing Platform for SARS-CoV-2 Detection and Genomic Surveillance This new technical publication details the Clear Dx WGS SARS-CoV-2 application, automation and software that provides complete characterization of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Read Article March 21, 2022 Xtalks Rapid Whole Genome Sequencing in the Ever-Evolving Age of COVID-19 Webinar on April 5 Clear Labs' Sasan Amini and Nebraska Public Health Laboratory's Baha Abdalhamid discuss Clear Dx technology for SARS-CoV-2 genomic surveillance. Read Article March 10, 2022 Xtalks The Advantages and Challenges of Next Generation Sequencing in Food Safety Testing Clear Labs’s CEO, Sasan Amini, discusses solutions to manage microbial contamination in food manufacturing. Read Article March 10, 2022 Xtalks Rapid Whole Genome Sequencing in the Ever-Evolving Age of COVID-19 Clear Labs is excited to offer a free webinar beginning 4/5/22 that features a case study from Nebraska on SARS-CoV-2 variant tracking. Read Article March 9, 2022 BioPharm International The Next Step For COVID-19 Vaccines New technologies in development help tackle COVID-19 and its assorted variants. Read Article March 2, 2022 AGDaily 2022 list of top 50 agtech and FoodTech companies is released Clear Labs is one of the top 50 FoodTech companies, according to SVG Ventures THRIVE FoodTech Reports. Read Article March 1, 2022 PRWeb Clear Labs’ Real-Time Technology Solution Supports Half of U.S. Public Health Labs in Identifying SARS-CoV-2 Variants Leader in automated next-generation sequencing solutions provides rapid detection of COVID-19 variants for more than 50% of state public health labs Read Article February 23, 2022 PRWeb Food Safety Testing with the Power of Fully Automated Sequencing, Upcoming Webinar Hosted by Xtalks In this free webinar, learn how genomic diagnostic and software tools offer a deeper understanding of microbial contamination in food manufacturing. Read Article February 8, 2022 Xtalks Food Safety Testing with the Power of Fully Automated Sequencing Clear Labs is proud to present this new webinar focused on advancements in food safety testing. Read Article January 31, 2022 La Crosse Tribune Senators Baldwin, Cassidy Introduce Tracking Pathogens Act to Prepare for Future Pandemics The Tracking Pathogens Act would enhance the US's ability to prepare for future pandemics and strengthen efforts to identify new viral threats. Read Article January 6, 2022 Meat+Poultry Establishing barriers There is no doubt that Listeria is a significant threat to food safety. Read Article January 6, 2022 Healthline What to Know About the New Isolation Guidelines from the CDC Isolation restrictions for people who test positive for COVID-19, yet remain asymptomatic, were reduced from 10 to only 5 days. Read Article January 1, 2022 BioPharm International What’s Next for COVID-19 Vaccines and Variants? Although mRNA and viral vector vaccines have been top of mind for COVID-19 treatments, other technologies and treatments are emerging—along with new variants. Read Article December 21, 2021 MedCity News The power of Next Generation Sequencing in management of the pandemic and future outbreaks The Covid-19 pandemic has brought a laser focus to the critical and immediate need for next-generation sequencing tools. Read Article December 14, 2021 PRWeb Clear Labs Appoints Three Innovators in Microbiology and Diagnostics to Leadership Team The company announced the expansion of its leadership team with the appointments of Darshna Tanna as Vice President of Product Portfolio, Scott Carlucci as Vice President of Customer Success and... Read Article December 4, 2021 PubMed Central COVID-19 Vaccine Breakthrough Hospitalizations and Deaths in the Veterans Health Administration A paper that reports Veterans Health Administration (VHA) breakthrough cases, focusing on hospitalizations and deaths. Read Article December 4, 2021 WISN 12 Milwaukee Health Department testing for omicron variant, but haven't seen it yet 95% of genomic sequencing samples from people sick with COVID-19 in Milwaukee area showing delta variant. Read Article December 3, 2021 WOWT 6 News Omicron variant confirmed in southeast Nebraska Dr. Peter Iwen and Dr. Baha Abdalhamid at NPHL identified the omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 using the Clear Labs next-generation whole-genome sequencer and the identification was made available... Read Article December 2, 2021 KETV Omaha An inside look at the Nebraska public health lab testing for SARS-CoV-2 variants Clear Labs supports Nebraska Public Health Dept with its #ClearDx platform, enabling detection of SARS-CoV-2 variants. Read Article November 30, 2021 Lab Manager Trends in Lab Automation Life science labs embrace AI and cloud computing. Read Article November 30, 2021 Salon The omicron variant is spreading rapidly — but doctors note cases so far are not severe Scientists are rushing to find answers, as omicron's mutational profile raises concerns. Read Article November 9, 2021 Salon Why the coronavirus is unlikely to mutate into something deadlier The virus may have reached "peak fitness," experts say — here's what that means. Read Article October 27, 2021 Salon How worried should we be about the "delta plus" variant? The variant is spreading across the UK – so Salon spoke to experts about whether the US could be next. Read Article October 14, 2021 PR Newswire Clear Labs Automated NGS Technology Platform (Clear Safety™) Approved by USDA’s National Poultry Improvement Plan for Salmonella Detection Clear Safety™ Salmonella has been approved by the National Poultry Improvement Plan (NPIP) for interim use in the detection of Salmonella. Established in the 1930s to provide a cooperative... Read Article October 7, 2021 Salon How the once-feared mu variant all but disappeared The vaccine-resistant variant turned heads when it was discovered. It hasn't been detected anywhere for two weeks-- Read Article September 1, 2021 APHL Lab Matters Clear Labs Shares Its 10 Considerations for Implementing NGS in a Post-Pandemic World NGS-based technologies have played a significant role in public health, but such technologies have remained relatively inaccessible for a number of reasons. Subsequently, the COVID-19 pandemic... Read Article August 24, 2021 Journal of Food Protection Clear Labs Research Published in the Journal of Food Safety In collaboration with the USDA, Clear Labs investigated how combining risk-based information with diagnostic tools can help poultry processors identify spread of #Salmonella, utilizing the... Read Article August 23, 2021 Alldus Clear Labs VP of Engineering Interviewed by Alldus “AI in Action” Podcast VP of Engineering, Henrik Gehrmann, discusses the impact that data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence are making on our everyday lives, and how Clear Labs is contributing to... Read Article July 13, 2021 Press Democrat Sonoma County gets new tool to quickly detect COVID-19 mutations With new COVID-19 cases on the rise and the more infectious delta variant spreading especially among unvaccinated people, Sonoma County public health officials have added a new weapon in the... Read Article July 2, 2021 GenomeWeb Clear Labs Develops SARS-CoV-2 Variant Monitoring Engine Using Rapid Sequencing Workflow With a rapid, automated solution that incorporates Oxford Nanopore sequencing for diagnostics and surveillance, Clear Labs is growing its footprint in both applied and clinical markets. Read Article May 26, 2021 PRWeb Clear Labs Raises $60MM in Series C Financing to Accelerate Breakthrough Approach that Identifies Pathogens, including SARS-CoV-2 and Its Variants, in Real-Time The financing was co-led by new investors Counterpoint Global (Morgan Stanley) and funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc., with significant participation by existing... Read Article March 31, 2021 Gothamist How Coronavirus Variants Are Tracked: A Tour Inside NYC’s Genome Labs Tracing the evolution of the coronavirus has taken over Anne-Catrin Uhlemann’s life. Formerly, the Columbia University researcher studied why drug-resistant bacteria often thrived inside... Read Article March 31, 2021 Omaha World Herald Nebraska Lab Uses New Gene Sequencer to Look for COVID-19 Mutations A team of scientists at the Nebraska Public Health Laboratory in Omaha is using a new machine that can sequence the coronavirus’s entire genome to help track the movement of the virus in... Read Article March 4, 2021 GEN SARS-CoV-2 Under Surveillance Sequencing information about the viral genome can be gathered so quickly—almost in real time—that it can power a dynamic public health response. Read Article February 26, 2021 Biocentury How variant surveillance could drive a sequencing boom The push to keep up with COVID-19 variants could be the inflection point that turns genomic sequencing from a sophisticated technique into a widely accessible tool, with companies in the... Read Article January 27, 2021 PRWeb Clear Labs Launches Groundbreaking Solution for Enhanced Screening and Genomic Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 and its Mutations Leader in Next-Generation Sequencing Automation Workflow Solutions Delivers First Turn-key Solution for Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) of COVID-19 Read Article January 5, 2021 MDisrupt Clear Labs Recognized as One of 10 Companies to Watch The fully-automated platform has major implications for monitoring and surveillance applications, particularly now as novel mutated strains of the virus emerge Read Article October 29, 2020 PRWeb Jeff Field Joins Clear Labs as Chief Commercial Officer Healthcare industry veteran with deep experience in NGS will lead development and scaling of Clear Labs’ signature products, Clear Safety and Clear Dx. Read Article September 24, 2020 PRWeb Clear Labs Granted EUA by FDA for SARS-CoV-2 Novel Descriptive Diagnostic NGS-enabled platform tracks infection clusters for contact tracing and monitors emerging mutations, combining once separate aspects of screening and genomic surveillance Read Article May 14, 2020 GenomeWeb Clear Labs Will Launch Diagnostic Nanopore Sequencing COVID-19 Assay The company submitted for Emergency Use Authorization to the US Food and Drug Administration last week. Read Article May 14, 2020 PR Web Clear Labs Raises $18M; Plans to Expand Application of Automated Next-Generation Sequencing Platform to COVID-19 Diagnostics Company’s novel characterizing diagnostic could significantly improve testing rates, results, and ability to trace the virus. Read Article March 25, 2020 Thrive AgiFood Clear Labs Again Lands on the Thrive Top 50 Report, an Annual Ranking of Leading AgTech and FoodTech Companies The San Carlos, California company has made the list for the third year in a row, which exemplifies the best in agriculture and food-focused innovation. Read Article March 10, 2020 Forbes Clear Labs Named to Forbes’ America's Best Startup Employers Ranking The list was compiled by evaluating 2,500 American businesses with at least 50 employees on three criteria: employer reputation, employee satisfaction and growth. Read Article January 8, 2020 PRWeb Clear Labs Moves Headquarters, Expanding Office and R&D Space to Support Rapid Growth Clear Labs today announced that the company has relocated its headquarters to 1559 Industrial Road, San Carlos, California 94070 in order to support its growth plans. Read Article January 6, 2020 Food Safety Tech 2020 Expectations: More Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Technology Advances in Food Safety Testing In addition, technology will play an even larger role in how the food industry manages its supply chain this year. Read Article November 11, 2019 Food Dive Accuracy in food safety: Why good enough isn't good enough When evaluating food safety solutions, accuracy should be the most important variable in the equation. Read Article September 24, 2019 PRWeb Clear Labs’ Clear Safety Platform Receives AOAC Certification for Listeria Testing Official Approval from Leading Accreditation Group Follows the Recent Addition of Listeria testing and Environmental Mapping™ capabilities to the Clear Safety™ platform Read Article September 18, 2019 Food Safety Tech Beyond the Results: What Can Testing Teach Us? The value of next-generation food safety technology goes beyond squashing outbreaks within facilities. Read Article July 25, 2019 GenomeWeb Integrated DNA Technologies, Clear Labs Ink Supply Agreement for Food Safety Testing Integrated DNA Technologies of Coralville, Iowa,said today that it has signed a multi-year agreement with Menlo Park, California-based Clear Labs to act as the primary supplier of... Read Article July 23, 2019 Food Industry Executive Clear Labs Announces Listeria Testing, Persistence Monitoring, and Environmental Mapping Powered by Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) Clear Safety connects Listeria screening, subtyping, persistence monitoring, and mapping software in one unified platform. Read Article July 22, 2019 The Packer Clear Labs adds listeria testing, mapping capabilities Clear Labs, Menlo Park, Calif., has new listeria testing and environmental mapping capabilities on its Clear Safety platform, a rapid detection method that reduces the time needed to pinpoint... Read Article July 22, 2019 GenomeWeb Clear Labs Announces Clear Safety Listeria, Environmental Mapping Testing Menlo Park, California-based Clear Labs has launched new Listeria testing and environmental mapping capabilities on its Clear Safety next-generation sequencing platform. Read Article May 30, 2019 The Feed Blog Tyson Ventures Invests in Clear Labs Tech to Advance Food Safety Clear Labs’ focus on food safety, speed and accuracy makes sense to the venture capital arm of the meat processing company and forms part of core investment strategy. Read Article April 12, 2019 Food Dive Tyson's VC arm invests in Clear Labs food safety tech Tyson Foods' venture firm is branching its investments out. The fund has put money into alternative meat and protein companies that could be the future for its core business. With this new... Read Article April 11, 2019 Bloomberg Tyson Ventures Invests in Food Safety Testing Firm Clear Labs Tyson Ventures has already made splashes buying stakes in alternative protein companies. Now, the venture capital arm of giant Tyson Foods Inc. is betting the meat industry will beef up its... Read Article March 25, 2019 Food Safety Magazine Clear Labs Announces Partnership with Oxford Nanopore Clear Labs has announced a North American distribution agreement with Oxford Nanopore. Clear Labs’ flagship product Clear Safety will leverage Oxford Nanopore’s GridION DNA sequencing... Read Article March 25, 2019 GenomeWeb Clear Labs, Oxford Nanopore Ink North American Distribution Agreement for Food Safety Testing Food testing and analytics startup Clear Labs said today that it has signed a US distribution agreement with Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) for rapid food-based pathogen screening technology. Read Article March 25, 2019 GenomeWeb Clear Labs Turns to Nanopore Sequencing for Food Safety Testing Having inked a distribution partnership with Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT), food testing and analytics startup Clear Labs plans to offer a next-generation sequencing-based platform to... Read Article March 25, 2019 AgFunder News Clear Labs & Oxford Nanopore Team up to Offer Rapid Result Food Safety Testing Technology Food recalls are becoming common fodder in the news, from rubber pieces in chicken nuggets to multi-state outbreaks of salmonella-contaminated beef. Each year, food safety outbreaks cause 9.4... Read Article March 25, 2019 PRWeb Clear Labs and Oxford Nanopore Announce Distribution Agreement for Rapid, Intelligent Food Safety Testing Clear Safety leverages Oxford Nanopore’s GridION technology for rapid pathogen screening purpose-built for food safety testing. Read Article March 4, 2019 Quality Assurance & Food Safety Clear Labs Releases New Clear Safety Feature; Adds Robach to Board of Directors Clear Labs has released a new feature on its NGS platform, Clear Safety – Salmonella serotyping enabling food safety professionals to detect up to 40 unique Salmonella serotypes in an enriched... Read Article February 26, 2019 The Packer Food Safety expert Michael Robach joins Clear Labs' board of directors Michael Robach has joined Clear Labs’ board of directors. Robach has more than 40 years of experience in the food industry, most recently as vice president of corporate food safety, quality... Read Article February 21, 2019 WATT Ag Net Clear Labs Clear Safety platform with serotyping capabilities Clear Labs, the only automated and intelligent NGS platform purpose-built for food safety testing, announced it is including serotyping capabilities on its Clear Safety platform. Food safety... Read Article February 21, 2019 GenomeWeb Clear Labs Releases Serotyping Update for its Clear Safety NGS Platform According to the firm, food safety professionals can now detect up to 40 unique Salmonella serotypes in an enriched sample in about 24 hours. Read Article February 21, 2019 PRWeb Clear Labs Welcomes Michael Robach to Board of Directors Former VP, Corporate Food Safety, Quality and Regulatory Affairs at Cargill and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Global Food Safety Initiative brings deep industry expertise and... Read Article February 19, 2019 Food Industry Executive Clear Labs Announces Salmonella Serotyping Capabilities Powered by Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) Clear Safety platform now enables food safety professionals to capture significantly more data from one test, improve accuracy, and dramatically reduce time from insight-to-decision. Read Article January 9, 2019 Grub Street Do You Know What’s in Your Salad’s DNA? New technology promises to tell us everything about the food we eat. Read Article December 17, 2018 Food Quality and Safety Can NGS Be a Replacement for PCR? As the industry becomes complacent with current tools, safety systems are in need of new, intelligent innovation. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR), which has been a popular method for detecting... Read Article December 10, 2018 FoodNavigator How next-generation sequencing will impact your food safety program It is impossible to ignore next-generation sequencing (NGS) in the food industry. It is no longer just a buzzword – it’s changing food safety as we know it. By leveraging the power of NGS,... Read Article December 4, 2018 Food Safety Magazine Clear Labs Earns AOAC Certification for Salmonella Testing Clear Labs has announced that its flagship product, Clear Safety, has received AOAC Performance Tested certification for Salmonella enterica testing, license number #111802. Read Article December 4, 2018 PRWeb Clear Labs’ Clear Safety Receives AOAC Certification for Salmonella Testing Clear Labs, the only automated and intelligent next-generation sequencing (NGS) platform purpose-built for food safety testing, today announced that its flagship product, Clear Safety, has... Read Article November 2, 2018 FoodNavigator ‘We can effectively eliminate recalls’: Clear Labs eyes $100bn food safety opportunity Clear Labs thinks it has a big role to play in the future of food safety. The company has just completed a $21m finding round and is gearing up for growth. Read Article Oct 30, 2018 PRWeb Clear Labs Raises $21M Series B2 to Expand Clear Safety, World’s Only Automated NGS Platform for Routine Pathogen Testing Clear Labs, the only automated and intelligent NGS platform purpose-built for food safety testing, today announced the close of $21M in funding. The Series B2 was led by Menlo Ventures, with... Read Article October 30, 2018 AgFunder News Clear Labs Raises $21m in Series B-2 Funding to Make Food Safety Testing Quicker and Cheaper Clear Labs, a Californian startup using next-generation sequencing (NGS) to test food for dangerous pathogens like Salmonella, has raised $21 million in an extension to its Series B round. The... Read Article October 30, 2018 GenomeWeb Food Testing Firm Clear Labs Closes $21M Series B2 Round Food testing and analytics firm Clear Labs announced today that it has raised $21 million in a Series B2 financing round. The round was led by Menlo Ventures and included Wing VC, Dentsu... Read Article October 30, 2018 Food Dive Clear Labs closes $21M funding round to advance food safety solutions Food safety testing has become big business as manufacturers try to avoid the negative fallout of a potential recall. The average cost of a recall can be as much as $10 million if brand damage... Read Article October 30, 2018 GenomeWeb Food Testing Firm Clear Labs Closes $21M Series B2 Round Food testing and analytics firm Clear Labs announced today that it has raised $21 million in a Series B2 financing round. The round was led by Menlo Ventures and included Wing VC, Dentsu... Read Article October 26, 2018 Food Dive Why whole genome sequencing is not the right tool for routine pathogen testing A misconception has run amok in the food safety industry. You’ve likely heard the terms “whole genome sequencing” and “next-generation sequencing” a lot lately. It’s common even for... Read Article October 5, 2018 Food Safety Tech The Power of Advanced NGS Technology in Routine Pathogen Testing The use of NGS represents a seismic shift in the food safety world. It changes the age-old food microbiology question from: “Is this specific microbe in my sample?” to “what is the... Read Article July 11, 2018 FoodNavigator ‘A new era in food safety’: Clear Labs wants to disrupt the food safety sector Food safety specialist Clear Labs has unveiled what it describes as âthe first automated systemâ for routine pathogen testing that takes advantage of âadvanced DNA sequencing and... Read Article July 9, 2018 Food Safety Tech Will Next-Generation Sequencing Dethrone PCR? Clear Safety, a new NGS platform from Clear Labs, aims to go head-to-head with PCR, as it is touted to be on par with cost and turnaround time but provides more accuracy and targets multiple... Read Article June 27, 2018 Forbes The 25 Most Innovative AgTech Startups In 2018 Forbes has taken to the fields and phones to come up with the top 25 most innovative startups in the ag-tech space. Just as we did last year, we surveyed the agricultural technology landscape by... Read Article June 27, 2018 Food Safety Tech The Future of Food Safety: A Q&A with Cargill’s Mike Robach Continuing on our journey to bring you the successes, best practices, challenges and accomplishments from the very best in this industry, this month I had the pleasure of interviewing Mike... Read Article June 5, 2018 Food Industry Executive Advancing Food Safety Testing with Next-Generation Sequencing: An Interview with Clear Labs’ Mahni Ghorashi Clear Labs, a Silicon Valley startup, is seeking to change that by replacing the traditional method of routine safety testing with next-generation sequencing (NGS). The company recently launched... Read Article May 23, 2018 Food Safety Tech The Future of Food Safety: A Q&A with Walmart’s Frank Yiannas Continuing on our journey to bring you the successes, best practices, challenges and accomplishments from the very best in this industry, this month I had the pleasure of interviewing Frank... Read Article May 15, 2018 Food Industry Executive Clear Labs Launches Pilot Program to Usher in a New Era of Routine Food Safety Testing Clear Labs, the only automated and intelligent platform purpose-built for food safety testing, today announced the launch of a pilot program that will bring a routine pathogen testing platform... Read Article May 15, 2018 Food Safety Tech Pilot Program Aims to Advance NGS to a Routine Pathogen Testing Platform Clear Labs is working to bring industry a platform that uses DNA sequencing, bioinformatics and robotics, while being competitive with the turnaround times and cost of PCR. Read Article April 10, 2018 Food Safety Tech The Future of Food Safety: A Q&A with Mars, Inc. For our first interview, I had the pleasure of interviewing Bob Baker, corporate food safety science and capability director at Mars, Inc.. Bob leads the corporate food safety science strategy... Read Article November 6, 2017 Food Safety Magazine Technology’s Role in Eradicating Foodborne Illness Food recalls cost an average of $15 million per incident and cause significant harm to brands’ reputation and credibility. They can also cause significant harm to individuals. In the U.S.... Read Article September 26, 2017 Food Safety Magazine Food Safety Matters Podcast Interviews Mike Taylor Former FDA Deputy Commissioner for Foods and Veterinary Medicine Mr. Taylor currently a senior fellow at the Meridian Institute, an advisor to the Food and Society Program at the Aspen Institute, and a board member of both STOP Foodborne Illness... Read Article September 20, 2017 Food Safety Tech NGS in Food Safety: Seeing What Was Never Before Possible Over the last 30 years, multiple technology transitions have occurred to improve food safety. Now, NGS offers an unprecedented opportunity to protect against likely threats in food... Read Article August 30, 2017 Project Nosh Clear Labs Lands $16M to Improve Food Safety Developments in food technology are altering more than just product innovation. Using next-generation proprietary technology based on DNA sequencing and data management... Read Article August 15, 2017 San Francisco Chronicle What’s in my food? DNA sequencing, blockchain provide closer look Looking at food at the molecular level helps Clear Labs answer questions that plague retailers, manufacturers and consumers. Read Article June 28, 2017 Forbes The 25 Most Innovative Ag-Tech Startups From irrigation hardware engineered to beat the drought to biotechnology startups cultivating future cash crops, Forbes has identified the 25 most innovative pieces of burgeoning technology... Read Article Show More News Events March 21-26, 2026 | San Antonio, TX USCAP 2026 VISIT SITE May 4-7, 2026 | Baltimore, MD APHL Annual Conference VISIT SITE June 4-8, 2026 | Washington, D.C. 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