37.7898°N 122.4172°W · San Francisco, CA
Cohort 3 // Sept 15 — Dec 15 2026
Haus

The First Check
into Biology's Outsiders.

Haus is a pre-seed biotech fund. We run Biopunk — a live-in accelerator where founders move in, plug into wet lab space and a cohort that ships, and leave with a company. Haus writes the first check. No lectures. No theater. Bench to showcase in twelve weeks.
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The cohort outdoors near San Francisco Haus
Place · the cohort, outdoors
00 / The Thesis
Biotech isn't built
in office parks.
Community dinner inside the house
The house · community dinner
The next generation of life-science companies is being built at kitchen tables and shared lab benches — not inside corporate campuses. Biopunk, the operating company that runs the accelerator, compresses everything an early-stage biotech founder needs into one address: a place to live, a bench to run experiments, capital from the fund, and a cohort moving at the same velocity.

Remove rent, remove commute, remove isolation — what's left is the work. San Francisco is the network's fundraising node — where biotech companies go from angel to seed — and the reference design for Biopunk as a global accelerator of specialized residencies, all backed by one fund: Haus.
Format
Live-In
Duration
12 Weeks
Focus
Bio Only
Stage
Angel→Seed
Location
SF, CA
Output
Showcase
01 / The Program · Biopunk
Twelve weeks, one trajectory.
Biopunk is Haus's accelerator for early-stage biotech founders — an intensive twelve weeks blending rigorous scientific work, startup building, and a culture of mutual care and ambition. Presence and participation are the deal.
Founders at work at the bench
The work · bench to showcase
Phase_01
Orient
Week One
Orientation
Move in, meet your cohort, map your science to a buildable company. Lab onboarding, biosafety clearance, and a working hypothesis you'll be held to.
Phase_02
Diligence
Investors Pitch You
Diligence Prep → Reverse Demo Day
Build the data room before anyone asks for it: science, IP, market, team. Then the tables turn — at Reverse Demo Day, the investors pitch the founders on why they deserve a seat on your cap table.
Phase_03
Build
Ship Something
Hackathon Sprint
Heads-down execution: experiments at the bench, customers on the phone, weekly demos to the house. The sprint forces a shippable artifact out of every team.
Phase_04
Showcase
The Finale
Final Immersive Showcase
Not a pitch night — an immersive demonstration of your company, your data, and your raise, staged for investors, partners, and press. Then: alumni network, ongoing community, and extended stays for breakout projects.
Constant
Ritual
Every Week
Weekly Dinners
Every week, the whole house at one table. The cross-pollination engine of the entire program — non-negotiable, and the part alumni miss most.
02 / What You Get
The full stack, one address.
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Housing
A furnished room in the house for the full program. Private rooms available; some shared to lower costs for founders who need financial support. Live with your cohort — momentum is ambient.
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Wet Lab Access
Bench space, equipment, and biosafety infrastructure at Haus Lab’s managed facility — a separate building a short walk from the houses. Dry lab and computational work at the house; wet work at the bench, properly.
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Capital
Haus Fund I backs companies built inside the program — first checks into standout cohort teams, plus a direct line to the fund's LP and angel network when it's time to raise.
⌬
Mentor Network
Scientists, founders, and investors from across the Bay Area bio ecosystem — office hours, dinners, and direct introductions. People who've taken science to market, on call.
▶
Media Engine
Haus Media documents and amplifies the work — long-form stories, video, and distribution that put your science in front of investors, talent, and the public before the showcase.
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Alumni for Life
Permanent access to the alumni network, ongoing events at the house, and extended stays for the most promising projects. The showcase is the start, not the end.
Evening around the fire at the house
03 / The Nodes
A growing network of nodes.
View Global Nodes →
NODE_01 · RESIDENCE
PUNKHAUS
Active
San Francisco
The fundraising flagship. Cohort housing, communal kitchen, dry-lab workspace, and the weekly dinners where companies go from angel to seed. Home of Cohort 3.
FundraisingCohort HousingShowcase
NODE_02 · RESIDENCE
FEMHAUS
Active
San Francisco
The all-women house — a founder residence blending rigorous scientific work, startup building, and a culture of mutual care and ambition.
Women FoundersCohort HousingCommunity
NODE_03 · RESIDENCE
ALUMHAUS
Active
San Francisco
The alumni house. Where graduated founders keep building inside the network — extended stays, ongoing community, and the gravitational center of the alumni layer.
AlumniExtended StaysNetwork
NODE_04 · RESIDENCE
SAFEHAUS
Sept 2026
San Francisco
The biosecurity house — a live-in residency for founders building defenses against engineered pandemics: countermeasures, DNA-synthesis screening, and biosurveillance, alongside the labs and agencies that fund the field.
BiosecurityBiodefenseCountermeasures
NODE_05 · RESIDENCE
CELLHAUS
Sept 2026
Kobe, Japan
The cell & gene therapy house — inside the Kobe Biomedical Innovation Cluster, where Japan’s conditional approval pathway lets therapies reach patients years ahead of the FDA or EMA.
Cell & GeneRegenerativeKobe · KBIC
NODE_06 · LABORATORY
BIOPUNK LAB
Active
San Francisco
Managed shared wet laboratory — bench space, core equipment, and biosafety infrastructure for cohort companies and visiting researchers.
Wet LabBSL-1/2Shared Equipment
04 / The Ecosystem
The fund and the accelerator.
Haus Ventures Fund is the investment vehicle. Biopunk Ventures is the operating company that runs the accelerator. Together with the lab and the media arm, they make one loop: find founders, back them, build them, tell the story.
Haus · The Fund
Haus Ventures Fund is the investment vehicle — it writes the first check, with pre-seed capital and a network of LPs and co-investors behind the companies built in the program.
Fund I · First Checks
Biopunk · The Accelerator
Biopunk Ventures, the operating company, runs the live-in residency. Cohorts, programming, demo day — the houses where founders and science collide at the kitchen table.
Biopunk Lab
Managed shared wet laboratory in San Francisco — bench space, equipment, and biosafety infrastructure for the community.
BIOPUNKLAB.COM →
The Media
Stories, video, and education from inside the program — the publishing engine that turns the work into reach.
Press & Stories
06 / Life at Haus
Documentary, not staged.
Warm, filmic, unstaged — the work, the house, and the people, shot from the inside. Twelve weeks, one address.
On the coast near the Golden Gate
The cohort under the residency banner
Founders at the house
Inside the engine room
Demo day on stage
Presenting at the house
A pitch at the house
On set in the build room
Portraits at the chalkboard wall
Filming an interview
Evening in the lounge
Presenting to the room
Around the fire
Gathering in the hall
05 / The Network
Built with a network behind it.
Haus is embedded in a network of residencies, labs, and capital — alongside the partners and co-investors who back the companies built inside it.
The Residency· Frontier Tower· Superhero Hotel· Orrick· Nucleate·
With co-investors from
50 Years· 1517 Fund· Boost VC· Draper Associates· Entrepreneur First· Foresight Institute·
08 / Apply
Join the
Revolution.
We're looking for biotech founders ready to build the future of life sciences — together. Applications for upcoming cohorts are open now.
Apply Now → Talk to Us
Direct line: elliot@haus.fund