Our mission
To help accelerate human discovery and fight disease by enabling everyone to see and understand the microscopic details of life
Our story
Founded in 2016, ONI is now a leading and rapidly growing biotech redefining the boundaries of scientific discovery with super-resolution microscopy.
The Nanoimager, ONI’s flagship product, is the world’s first desktop super-resolution microscope, capable of visualizing, tracking and imaging individual molecules in living cells with 20nm resolution.
Each team at ONI – from scientists to software engineers to sales teams – wants to create and provide innovative technologies that will empower researchers and users alike. We want to accelerate human discovery and fight disease and in doing so drive super-resolution microscopy to novel frontiers.
Our values
💎 Seek truth
💎 Seek truth
We conduct ourselves with integrity and transparency. 💎 We share information accurately and pro-actively, especially feedback. 💎 We leverage others to find our blind spots and biases. We love finding new avenues of self-discovery to see ourselves in the largest possible context. 💎 We dig for root causes by asking “why” a lot. 💎 We use a first principles approach and do not blindly follow a well-trodden path.
💛 Care and be kind
💛 Care and be kind
We want every interaction between people to leave a positive impact. 💛 With every decision made, we ask ourselves whether it comes from a place of caring and whether it maximizes kindness. 💛 We encourage employees to be kind to themselves, to their friends and family. 💛 We are passionate about improving humanity in the abstract and we care about helping individual human beings. 💛 We extend our caring to all living beings and the environment.
🌉 Bridge differences
🌉 Bridge differences
We enjoy listening to each other and celebrate the diversity of our voices. We are eager to understand different perspectives of truth. 🌉 Seeing the larger picture of why people have a different opinions is important to us. We mediate between different opinions and foster shared understanding. 🌉 We are passionate about connecting people who would otherwise not easily find each other. 🌉 We enjoy influencing and storytelling to get your views across instead of insisting forcefully. 🌉 We love to connect the dots between different domains and foster understanding of how very different things are interrelated.
🧶 Think detail, make simple
🧶 Think detail, make simple
We empathize with your customer, put ourself in their shoes, live through their pain. 🧶 We obsess about the smallest details. We strive to master complexity and we are always prepared to dive into deep details. 🧶 We imagine the simplest user experience and build towards that, in external and internal products alike. 🧶 Leaving something complex is a technical debt for us. 🧶 We communicate in simple terms. We use storytelling, analogies and visual aids. For us, less is more.
💡 Innovate everywhere
💡 Innovate everywhere
As lifelong learners we value personal innovation, improving ourselves and all avenues of learning. The more we learn, the more we realize how much there is yet to learn. 💡 We don’t get comfortable with the status quo and we question why things are done the way they are. We pro-actively disrupt ourselves before others do it. 💡 We love to pair problems and approaches from different disciplines together, creating creative solutions this way. 💡 We innovate in areas that others consider solved. 💡 Innovation everywhere can lead to innovation nowhere, so we are focused on innovating a few things at a time.
Our science starts with the passion to understand the molecular mechanisms of life to enable us to unlock a new generation of diagnostics and treatments. Our Nanoimager is just the beginning of this journey. We continuously develop new instruments, applications and AI powered software to fulfil the potential of super-resolution microscopy. And most importantly, to make it accessible to all researchers.
