Cardea Bio, Inc.

Discover how Ribera Solutions partnered with a rapidly growing California startup to design and develop a cutting-edge enterprise platform. Our collaboration enabled them to secure a landmark contract with the world’s largest global healthcare company, achieving this remarkable feat in record time.

About Cardea Bio, Inc.

Cardea Bio, Inc introduced a new paradigm in understanding how electronics and biology work together: the Biological Processing Unit, or BPU. Like a CPU, a BPU is a type of microchip. What makes the BPU™ distinct is the integration of biological material with silicon and other electronics materials. The BPU™ is the first mass produced chip that creates a gateway between the live signals in biologyand the digital world.

 

The Goal: Cardea had a very ambitious goal to reach. They wanted to create a suite of SAAS platform around how they plan and run experiments, analyze data, and visualize the data for themselves and their customers/partners. The software system would include a dashboard of apps and a unified visual theme, login, along with a single database for user data. The framework would then be given to a partner where they could customize and create their own version of the software and branding. Initially they were going to start with just the planning portion of the project, with an eye towards this larger software suite. However, in the end they completed the entire goal

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The Challenge

A fast growing start-up company needed a skilled and reliable software team to work on a highly complex, custom robotic automation platform with specific regulatory requirements.

The company focused primarily on hardware and had little experience with software development. Although there was a lead programmer and team members who understood the basics of software development, they needed the process, tools, methodologies, and resources to build the product.

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The Solution Process

When the team at Cardea first sat down with Ribera, they had a sense of what they wanted to do and provided architectural sketches of their ideas. Some drafts were not quite to the point of wireframe designs, but they had clear technical touchstones.


Ribera came in with the resources and tools needed to help them with their project. They built a team, assisted with product development, and conducted the required protocol for quality assurance. The team included a project manager/scrum master and senior developers to help Cardea with the Agile software development process and backend development, which included a selection of the technologies that would help them build their product.


Ribera worked closely with the team at Cardea to ensure all the requirements were met to release the product. They followed a sprint-by-sprint development schedule, which kept the project within Cardea’s timetable for completion. The first sprint included a discussion around the ideas for the software architecture and reviewing alternatives. The next sprint focused on figuring out what they needed to accomplish in each sprint to meet the goal. In the remaining sprints they worked on the different aspects of the product development.

Prior to product release, Ribera conducts a series of tests from QA to user acceptance testing in development and production environments to confirm that all regulations are addressed.

The Outcome

Development of a Fully Functional Product

Cardea, with the guidance and support from Ribera, was able to transform incomplete sketches into a fully functional product within a scheduled timeline of six months. The final product successfully integrated complex systems involving hardware, software, and wetware.

Timely Delivery and Operational Success

The company managed to deliver complete and operational products/systems to their customers within the scheduled timeline, demonstrating their ability to execute complex projects efficiently.

Successful Online and User Integration

Cardea successfully launched the system online, ensuring smooth user login experiences and successfully onboarding their internal team members. This facilitated an increase in the number of people using the system.

Enhanced Confidence and Market Competence

The successful completion of the project boosted Cardea’s confidence in their ability to deliver comprehensive, functioning systems under tight deadlines. This, in turn, demonstrated their competence to their customers and partners, attracting new customers.

Testimonials

Brett Goldsmith, Co-Founder/CTO

“Abish really has done a great job setting the culture of his organization and making sure that it’s the kind of organization that works really well with people like us, who have a vision, but maybe haven’t articulated or drawn up that vision the way that it needs to be in order to move forward. He’s very good. And some of the folks on his staff are just as excellent to walk you through the process of the proper organization of a software project, setting milestones months ahead, and then meeting those milestones. That’s hard to do and they do it well.”

Brett Goldsmith, Co-Founder/CTO

“There’s lots of people that we’ve worked with that sound good. And then you sit down and do work, and the work is not useful, the product doesn’t get used. And so, the reason we’ve kept working with Ribera (even if we didn’t have a project), is because we wanted to keep something going with them continuously because the product we’ve created has been put to use within the timeline that we set, our team has been using it, and the feedback is good.”

Brett Goldsmith, Co-Founder/CTO

“We haven’t had the kinds of issues like weird crashes and things not connecting the way that they should, that we’ve had with outsource people have used in the past.”

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