COMPANY

Blue chip heritage

Moddik has infrastructure and expertise already up and running.

Moddik was spun out of Looma Design, an engineering innovator with over 15 years of experience translating complex science off the lab bench and into commercial products.

Moddik Founder and CTO Trevor Ruggiero recognized a universal truth: building custom fluidic hardware from scratch for every single client cost millions and took years.

Moddik was born to be the microchip manufacturing platform for imprinting fluidic logic directly onto single-use assay plates.

The Paradigm Shift: From Mainframe to Microchip

Before the microchip, computing meant choosing between manual tools or room-sized mainframes.

Labs face a similar challenge when choosing between manual sample preparation and complex robotic systems.

Moddik brings automated fluid-handling workflows into a single consumable plate.

Multidisciplinary labs get robotic precision and convenience for the cost of a consumable, while high-throughput labs get the scale and flexibility they need.

It is elegant simplicity that works for everyone.

Transcribe Your Science on Our Architecture

We translate your assay protocols into fluidic plate designs that work with your instruments and reagents.

Custom, On-Demand Translation

We don’t offer a rigid, generic platform that forces your science to compromise.

Through our AI-guided design ecosystem, we translate your unique assays into optimized, custom microscale fluidic modules, engineered specifically for your applications.


THE TEAM

Core Team

David Ferrick, CEO & Co-founder

Over 30 years’ experience commercializing life science tools, notably the first live-cell metabolic analyzer (Seahorse) and first kit-enabled benchtop cytometer (easyCyte).

Trevor Ruggiero, CTO & Co-founder

Inspired by 15 years of translating complex bench science into products, Trevor Ruggiero invented Moddik’s architecture to solve microfluidic bottlenecks and eliminate rigid custom hardware.

Brian Dranka, Science & Strategy

Brian Dranka brings life science strategy and world-class expertise in assay principles, ensuring rigorous scientific execution across Moddik’s platforms.

Senior Advisors

Paul Sabin, Strategic Partner

Combining entrepreneurial acumen with deep engineering design and manufacturing expertise, Paul Sabin helps Moddik mature and scale its core technology.