About Us

Empowering curious minds,
transforming discovery

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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

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. 💎 We are lifelong learners and strive to improve ourselves. The more we learn, the more we realize how much there is yet to learn.

💛 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

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

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.

🖖 Go boldly

We are aspirational and our actions match our aspirations. 🖖 We have a sense of urgency and are keen to test our assumptions as quickly as possible. 🖖 We iterate and learn quickly as a team. 🖖 We seek out the uncomfortable, with a good plan. 🖖 We are not afraid to fail and we win together as a team.

Our mission

Our mission is to help accelerate human discovery and fight disease by enabling everyone to see and understand the microscopic details of life.

We are dedicated to unlocking the microscopic secrets of life, propelling a new frontier of diagnostics and treatments. Guided by relentless innovation, we continue to develop cutting-edge instruments, applications, and software to fully unleash the potential of super-resolution microscopy. Above all, we remain steadfast in our commitment to democratizing access, ensuring that researchers worldwide can harness the power of our technology for groundbreaking discoveries.