Biotech / PharmaNew Mexico

BennuBio

Biotech / Pharma · Albuquerque, NM

Albuquerque developer of high-throughput flow cytometry instruments, founded 2018 and backed by Cottonwood Technology Fund. Acquired in October 2025 by Precision Cell Systems (PCS), a medical technology company headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area; Albuquerque operations continue.

Founded

2018

Region

New Mexico

Investors

People

About New Mexico

New Mexico runs on two national laboratories most of the country only half-remembers exist: Los Alamos, where the first nuclear weapons were designed and where Triad National Security now holds the management contract, and Sandia in Albuquerque, run by Honeywell's NTESS since the contract moved off Lockheed Martin in 2017. Descartes Labs, a satellite-imagery and geospatial-AI company headquartered in Santa Fe, was founded by scientists who left Los Alamos to build it -- the exact same lab-to-company pattern that built San Antonio's cyber cluster and Tampa's CENTCOM-adjacent defense firms, playing out here around physics instead of signals.

Region Stats

Total firms 35

VC / investors 2

Companies 31

Schools 2

Known For

National Labs

Defense

Geospatial AI