Biotech / PharmaLas Vegas

Heligenics

Biotech / Pharma · Las Vegas, NV

Heligenics is a Las Vegas–based biotechnology company pioneering next-generation biologic drug discovery and functional genomics research. Its core technology, the GigaAssay™, enables advanced diagnostics and biologic drug development. The company is headquartered at 10530 Discovery Drive, Las Vegas, NV 89135.

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About Nevada

Nevada's real company base has moved well past the casino floor. Light & Wonder and Everi Holdings turned gaming technology and payments into genuine operating companies headquartered in Las Vegas; Switch runs some of the largest data centers in the western US from the same city; Boxabl is manufacturing factory-built modular housing in North Las Vegas at a scale few housing startups reach. A real, still-small biotech cluster -- Heligenics, Equani, MedWand Solutions, X2L Bio -- has formed loosely around UNLV. And the state built its own venture infrastructure to fund it: StartUpNV, AngelNV, Battle Born Venture, Rebel Venture Fund, and Tip of the Spear Ventures are all real, Nevada-based investor firms, not out-of-state funds passing through. UNLV and UNR anchor the two ends of the state.

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Total firms 48

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Companies 35

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From Hoover Dam to the Gigafactory