New York Startup, Phosphorus, Offers DNA Testing That Assesses Your Risk Of Disease And More

Forbes August 29, 2019
Daniel D'Ambrosio

Alexander Bisignano sold his first company, Recombine, based in New York, for $85 million to CooperSurgical in Pleasanton, California, in 2016, four years after he started it.

Recombine offered a reproductive screening test that lowered the cost for couples to identify the diseases they were at high risk of passing on. It was a $20 million company expected to grow quickly.

Now, for an encore, Bisignano, 31, launched Phosphorus in September 2018, also based in New York at 26^thand Broadway, which bills itself as offering “The DNA Test for what matters the most.”

In a good-natured dig at 23andMe and Ancestry.com, Phosphorus encourages its customers to “Go beyond lifestyle and ancestry” and be “proactive” about their health with a genetic...

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