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Color is democratizing access to genetic testing. Founded in 2013 due to a personal experience of the CEO and enabled by a new law, Color is building a unique business model in diagnostics by owning the relationship with the customer and commoditizing genetic testing to increase the value of its software.
Color was founded by 4 individuals — Elad Gil, Nish Bhat, Taylor Sittler, and Othman Laraki. Before Color, Othman (CEO) and Elad (Chairman) had sold a geotagging company, Mixer Labs, to Twitter and stayed there for a bit. Taylor was a pathology resident at UCSF and took up the role of CSO. Nish was a security engineer at Lookout. They were a group of four fearsome founders:
Elad Gil, Nish Bhat, Taylor Sittler, and Othman Laraki (top), Lamar Lundy, Rosey Grier, Merlin Oslen, and Deacon Jones (bottom)
