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Unlocking the power of biotech with modern software for modern science
Backed by Y Combinator · a16z (portfolio)
Biotechnology is rewriting life as we know it, from the medicines we take, to the crops we grow, the materials we wear, and the household goods that we rely on every day. Biotech R&D is radically transforming our world, but to move at the new speed of science, scientists need better technology. Benchling’s mission is to unlock the power of biotechnology. The world’s biotech leaders and innovators use our R&D Cloud to power the development of breakthrough products and accelerate time to milestone and market.
Benchling provides a cloud-based platform designed for biotechnology R&D, integrating data management, collaborative workflows, and AI-enabled tools to design experiments, automate workflows, and capture structured results. It positions itself as a biology-first platform that unifies data, collaboration, and insights across discovery, pre-clinical, and process development.
The product connects predictive AI models, structured data, and wet-lab execution into a feedback loop that designs experiments, routes lab automation or guides manual work, captures results as structured data, and recommends next steps. It offers digital notebooks for planning and sharing experiments, automated workflows and analytics, a unified data model for biomolecules, cells, reagents, and more, and an open platform with out-of-the-box integrations plus custom app development. It supports instrument data automation, AI-assisted analysis, and a developer platform with APIs and integrations to connect instruments and software, enabling end-to-end data capture, analysis, and collaboration across biotech workflows.
Who it’s for: Biotech and life sciences organizations across discovery, pre-clinical, and process development, including academic labs, startups, and large biopharma companies.
Customers: More than 1,300 leading biotechnology companies, Hundreds of biopharma organizations
Public pricing page, multiple product suites and solutions, ongoing emphasis on AI, integrations, and a large customer base indicating traction and scale
How Benchling’s homepage introduced itself over the years — each line is the page title the web actually saw, linked to that moment’s archived capture.
Our mission is to make biology easier to engineer.
We grow cells for biotech companies.
