HAWK Biosystems

HAWK Biosystems, formerly Fastbase Solutions, is a Bilbao-based biotechnology company that develops tools to measure how proteins function inside patient tissue. Its patented QF-Pro® technology measures protein interactions and modifications directly in biopsies. One use is predicting a cancer patient's response to immunotherapy, by measuring interactions between the PD-1 and PD-L1 proteins. The company sells the Violet 3.0 benchtop microscopy system and QF-Pro® reagent kits to research labs, drug companies and clinical users. It was founded in 2016 by scientists from the Francis Crick Institute and Cancer Research UK, including Professor Peter J. Parker and Professor Banafshé Larijani, and took the HAWK Biosystems name in 2022. It raised €750,000 from about 450 investors in a 2020 crowdfunding round and is backed by Hasten Ventures and CDTI's INNVIERTE programme. In 2024 it was one of 42 companies selected for the European Innovation Council's EIC Accelerator.

Founded
2016
Founders
2
Total funds raised
€1.7M
Rounds
3
Investors
4
Last round
Mar 2023
SectorsBiotechnology, Diagnostics, Precision Oncology, Life Science Tools Start-up MapHealthtech & Bio › Diagnostics & precision medicine testing

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Founders

Banafshé Larijani
Co-founder, Joint Managing Director and Chief Scientific Officer
Peter J. Parker
Co-founder and Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board

Global models 4

Akoya Biosciences
United States · www.akoyabio.com ↗
Sells spatial tissue-imaging instruments plus consumable reagent kits to research labs, drug companies and clinical users, including immunotherapy-response biomarker work, the same instrument-plus-reagents model as HAWK's Violet system and QF-Pro kits.
$250MComparable
Lunaphore Technologies
Switzerland · lunaphore.com ↗
Sold its COMET automated tissue-staining and imaging platform with reagents to research, pharma and clinical labs until Bio-Techne bought it, matching HAWK's instrument-and-kits model.
$110MComparable
Ultivue
United States · ultivue.com ↗
Sells multiplex tissue assay kits and services that profile the immune system in tumour biopsies, including the PD-1/PD-L1 pathway, to pharma and clinical researchers, close to HAWK's QF-Pro biomarker offering.
$50MComparable
Navinci Diagnostics
Sweden · navinci.se ↗
Sells reagent kits that detect protein interactions and modifications directly in tissue by in-situ proximity ligation, the closest technical and commercial match to HAWK's QF-Pro.
$15MComparable

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Funding rounds 3

DateRoundAmountLead
PublishedArticle
2026-10-23 Seaya arranca el megafondo con los primeros €600M. Más gestoras se rearman. Las tripas del pacto Factorial-General Catalyst ↗
Ecotechers
2026-10-23
2026-10-22 Seaya raises €600M for new growth fund to back Europe's next global tech leaders ↗
2026-10-21 HAWK Biosystems raises €3.5M to take its cancer diagnostic to the clinic ↗
Dealroom News
2026-10-21
2025-12-30 La medicina de precisión de Hawk Biosystems, surgida de la UMH, cierra 2025 con presencia en EEUU y China y ya distribuye en 33 países ↗
Alicante Plaza
2025-12-30
2025-11-04 Groundbreaking clinical study demonstrates predictive value of PD-1/PD-L1 engagement measured by QF-Pro® even in PD-L1–negative NSCLC patients ↗
HAWK Biosystems (press release)
2025-11-04
2025-08-19 HAWK Biosystems Announces Strategic Partnership with APG BIO to Expand Spatial Biology Solutions into China ↗
HAWK Biosystems (press release)
2025-08-19
2025-08-07 HAWK Biosystems and Sinapse Partner to Bring Next-Generation Spatial Biology to Brazil ↗
HAWK Biosystems (press release)
2025-08-07
2025-08-05 HAWK Biosystems Founder Prof. Peter Parker Honoured with Cancer Research Horizons Entrepreneurship Recognition Award ↗
HAWK Biosystems (press release)
2025-08-05
2025-04-29 HAWK Biosystems Joins BME's Entorno Pre Mercado Program ↗
HAWK Biosystems (press release)
2025-04-29
2024-12-10 Bringing Spatial Biology to India: HAWK Biosystems and Inkarp Instruments Forge Strategic Partnership ↗
HAWK Biosystems (press release)
2024-12-10
2024-11-26 HAWK Biosystems and SciTech Announce Strategic Partnership for Australia and New Zealand ↗
HAWK Biosystems (press release)
2024-11-26
2024-09-17 HAWK Biosystems entra en beneficios y cierra acuerdos para la distribución de su tecnología ↗
Estrategia Empresarial
2024-09-17
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