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Gurkern Sufi and Ravata Solutions: Redefining Embryo Health Analysis in IVF Treatment

Gurkern Sufi is a visionary entrepreneur and the Co-Founder and CEO of Ravata Solutions. He recognized the potential of precision medicine and genomic data in 2012 and has since been working towards improving the lives of patients undergoing IVF treatment. His venture, Ravata Solutions, is making a significant impact in the field of embryo health analysis, providing hope and relief for couples struggling to conceive.

Scispot Launches GLUE: A Revolutionary Data Stitching Platform for Life Science Companies

Scispot, a Y Combinator-backed life science informatics company, has announced the launch of Scispot GLUE, a revolutionary data stitching platform designed to streamline life science data for visualization, auditing, and machine learning. The platform is set to transform the biotech and pharma industries by eliminating data silos and making data audit-ready, visualization-friendly, and machine learning-ready.

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From Lab to Table: Anne-Sophie Mertgen's Inspiring Journey to Reshape the Meat Industry with Micro Meat

Cultivated meat, also known as lab-grown meat, is produced by growing animal cells in a lab and creating meat that is nutritionally identical to traditional meat, but without the need for raising and slaughtering animals.‍

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Advanced Tools for Efficient Microbial Workflows in Labs: All in one spot with Scispot!

Our platform offers a comprehensive suite of features to support your microbial research, including bulk data ingestion, sequence designer, inventory automation, and advanced electronic lab notebook (ELN) - all in one spot!

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Revolutionize Your Biotech Research with Scispot Analytics: Say Goodbye to Data Overload

Our platform provides a powerful yet easy-to-use tool for visualizing and analyzing your data, allowing you to quickly draw insights and make informed decisions.

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Streamline Your Biotech Research with Scispot: Your End-to-End Cell Line Study Solution

Scispot offers a comprehensive solution for streamlining your workflow and optimizing your cell line studies.‍

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Unlock the Power of Genomics Research with Scispot: Simplify, Streamline, and Collaborate

Whether you are performing NGS, or designing your plasmid, or curating your viral/non-viral vectors, Scispot can scale up your productivity.

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Introducing Scispot GLUE - The Must-Have Tool for Computational Biologists Working with Benchling

With GLUE, computational biologists can easily extract, transform, cleanse, and visualize data from Benchling, Airtable, Notion, legacy ELN, and LIMS in one place.

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Revolutionize Your Biotech Workflows with Scispot's Request Management Platform - A Comprehensive Solution for Efficient Collaboration and Workflow Management

Scispot's Request Management Platform offers a comprehensive solution for managing requests and tasks within and between teams.

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Scispot Glue: Effortlessly extract, transform, enrich and visualize your Benchling data

Scispot developed Glue, a groundbreaking data infrastructure solution tailored specifically for biotech and pharma IT leaders. Scispot GLUE streamlines the data extraction, transformation, and preparation process, making it an essential tool for modern biotech and pharma organizations dealing with internal data graveyards and legacy systems.

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Scale Up Your Startup’s Lab Workflows with Scispot's Advanced Lab Inventory Automation Features

Scispot's advanced lab inventory automation features offer an integrated, user-friendly solution for startups looking to optimize their lab workflows.

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Streamline Your Biotech R&D with Scispot: The Power of Connection and Visualization

Scispot enables seamless connection between all of your databases, making biotech R&D as simple and accessible as possible for all startups and scaleups.

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Leading the Digital ELN Revolution: Scispot's Advanced Validation Features Following FAIR Principles for Enhanced Data Accuracy and Reliability

Scispot is a powerful data and lab management platform that enables companies to easily validate scientific data with just a few clicks.

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Biotech Store: Set Up Your Online Store in Minutes with Scispot’s E-Commerce Platform

Biotech Store™, an e-commerce add-on for Scispot’s Labsheets, allowing companies to turn their inventory or catalog into a secure online store.

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Scispot Celebrates Women Entrepreneurs Making Waves in Biotech Industry

These women are breaking barriers and paving the way for the next generation of scientists and business leaders.

Tips and Tricks

Advanced Tools for Efficient Microbial Workflows in Labs: All in one spot with Scispot!

Tips and Tricks

Revolutionize Your Biotech Research with Scispot Analytics: Say Goodbye to Data Overload

Our platform provides a powerful yet easy-to-use tool for visualizing and analyzing your data, allowing you to quickly draw insights and make informed decisions.

Tips and Tricks

Streamline Your Biotech Research with Scispot: Your End-to-End Cell Line Study Solution

Scispot offers a comprehensive solution for streamlining your workflow and optimizing your cell line studies.‍

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Unlock the Power of Genomics Research with Scispot: Simplify, Streamline, and Collaborate

Whether you are performing NGS, or designing your plasmid, or curating your viral/non-viral vectors, Scispot can scale up your productivity.

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Revolutionize Your Biotech Workflows with Scispot's Request Management Platform - A Comprehensive Solution for Efficient Collaboration and Workflow Management

Scispot's Request Management Platform offers a comprehensive solution for managing requests and tasks within and between teams.

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Scale Up Your Startup’s Lab Workflows with Scispot's Advanced Lab Inventory Automation Features

Scispot's advanced lab inventory automation features offer an integrated, user-friendly solution for startups looking to optimize their lab workflows.

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Streamline Your Biotech R&D with Scispot: The Power of Connection and Visualization

Scispot enables seamless connection between all of your databases, making biotech R&D as simple and accessible as possible for all startups and scaleups.

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Leading the Digital ELN Revolution: Scispot's Advanced Validation Features Following FAIR Principles for Enhanced Data Accuracy and Reliability

Scispot is a powerful data and lab management platform that enables companies to easily validate scientific data with just a few clicks.

Trends

Biotech Store: Set Up Your Online Store in Minutes with Scispot’s E-Commerce Platform

Biotech Store™, an e-commerce add-on for Scispot’s Labsheets, allowing companies to turn their inventory or catalog into a secure online store.

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Scispot Celebrates Women Entrepreneurs Making Waves in Biotech Industry

These women are breaking barriers and paving the way for the next generation of scientists and business leaders.

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Top Innovative Techniques Changing the Game of Biotech Research

These innovative techniques have the potential to completely change R&D in biotech startups and scaleups.

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Streamline Omics Research with Scispot: The All-In-One Platform for R&D, Data Management, and Lab Operations

Omics research and development (R&D) is a rapidly evolving field, with increasingly sophisticated technology that allows biotech startups and scaleups to create huge data sets.

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Top 5 Biotech Startups Pushing the Boundaries of Bioprospecting

Here are some of the top bioprospecting startups and scaleups shaping the future of the biotech, pharmaceutical, agricultural, cosmetics and personal care industries

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Sample Manager: An Easy Way to Manage Your Samples

Scispot developed Sample Manager, the ultimate laboratory sample management solution for biotech companies.

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Scispot Simplifies Biologics Research and Drug Discovery

Scispot’s lab and data management platform is designed to simplify drug discovery by providing a range of powerful features that can help biotech startups work faster, more effectively, and more collaboratively than ever before.

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R&D Tools for Biotech Startups and Scaleups: How to Streamline your Crispr-Cas9 Workflows

CRISPR-Cas9 is a revolutionary gene-editing technology that has taken the scientific community by storm.

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Next-generation bioprocessing solutions to meet the challenges of modern Industrial Biotech research

Some of the ways you can use Scispot to streamline and automate your industrial biotech workflows

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Top 5 mRNA Biotech Startups and Scaleups in Boston

Here is a snapshot of the exciting work being done in the mRNA research space in Boston, with many startups and scaleups making their mark.

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Biotech Startups: Say Goodbye to Complexities and Inefficiencies in Small Molecule Drug Discovery

Scispot, a revolutionary, completely configurable platform that's changing the game in small molecule drug discovery.

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10 Tips for Managing Biotech Startup Data

Laboratory information management systems (LIMS) and cloud-based R&D platforms can help startups manage digital data.

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Streamlining Research Efficiency: The Power of LIMS Systems for Small Laboratories

Choose a system that is designed for modern biotech and is flexible enough to grow with your company.

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Unlocking the Potential of Biotech Startups with Efficient R&D

The biotech industry is one of the most exciting and innovative fields to work in today. But as any biotech startup knows, there's a lot of work that goes into bringing a product or service to market. And while innovation is the lifeblood of the industry, there's no room for inefficiency.

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Scispot Launches “pico” OS for Early-Stage Biostartups

With pico, every biostartup can be a scalable, data-driven TechBio company from Day 1.

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15 Innovative Biotech Startups and Scaleups in Delaware

In recent years, the state of Delaware is becoming a hub for biotech startups and scaleups. From companies working on new treatments for cancer to those developing innovative technologies for the food and agriculture industry, these bio-businesses are making a big impact in the First State. To help you keep up with the latest in Delaware biotech, we’ve compiled a list of our top 15 biostartups and scaleups picks. These companies are doing cutting-edge work in a variety of areas, including biopharma, medical devices, and diagnostics.

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LabSQL Allows Biostartups to Build Their Own Customized, Adaptable LIMS

Biostartups are adaptable, fast growing, and always changing as they race to create new products or technology to improve or save human lives. Startups need to be agile to survive. Therefore, every biostartup has its own workflows and lab data management needs. Yet, most lab information management systems (LIMS) and electronic notebooks (ELNs) are hard-coded with rigid templates that scientists cannot customize. Scientists have to adapt to their LIMS when it should be the opposite.

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Top 30 Biotech Companies in Boston: From Biotech Startups to Scaleups

The biomedical and pharmaceutical industry in Boston is booming. In recent years, the city has seen an influx of biotech startups and scaleups, many of which are revolutionizing the healthcare landscape. In this blog post, we will be taking a look at the top 30 biotech startups and scaleups in Boston. These companies are changing the way we think about and approach healthcare.

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Top 20 Biostartups and Scaleups in Poland

Poland's biotech sector has grown considerably in the last decade. While the nation's pharmaceutical sector has historically concentrated on creating generic medications, several of these businesses have begun shifting their attention to creating biologic medications. ‍Here, we've chosen 20 biostartups and scaleups making their mark in Poland.

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Top 20 Biotech Startups and Scaleups in San Diego

One of the largest biotech centers in the United States is located in San Diego. We have selected twenty San Diego-based biotech startups that have received significant venture capital funding.

Tips and Tricks

Tired of scavenging through spreadsheets to find your lab samples?

Scispot’s Location Manager can streamline your sample management process, improve compliance, increase lab productivity, and eliminate lab errors

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Scispot vs. Spreadsheets

Distinguish between Scispot and Excel Spreadsheets to help you choose the ELN and LIMS that is right for you.

Turn your biostartup into a digital company

Scispot is a no-code digitization & automation suite for life science

How to start a biotech company?

9 rules of success for bioentrepreneurs

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Top 7 Plant-Based Meat Companies in India

Here are some of the top plant-based meat companies in India

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Top 12 Emerging Biotech Companies in India

Here are some of the top emerging startups in india

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Top 20 Innovative Stem Cell Companies in the US

Here are some of the top stem cell companies in the US

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Top 20 Most Innovative Longevity Biotechs in the World

Here are some of the top 20 most innovative longevity biotechs in the world

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Top 20 most innovative organ-on-a-chip companies in the world

Here are some of the most innovative organ-on-a-chip companies in the world

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Top 20 Innovative Synthetic Biology Companies in the US

Here are some of the top innovative synthetic biology startups in the US

10 Innovative Black-Founded Biotech Companies

Here are some innovative black-founded biotech companies

10 Innovative Latinx-founded YC Life Sciences Startups

Here are some innovative Latinx-founded YC life sciences startups:

Top 20 innovative female-founded biotech companies

Here are some of the most innovative women-founded biotech companies chosen by the Scispot team

Top 20 Innovative Microbiome Companies in the US

Here are some of the top innovative microbiome companies in the US:

Top 8 Innovative Life Science Startups in Mexico

Here are the top 8 innovative life science startups in Mexico

Top 8 IndieBio Companies That are Creating Food for the Future

Here are some IndieBio companies that are creating food for the future

Top 8 Genome Editing CROs in North America

Here are some of the top genome editing CROs in North America

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Top 8 Zebrafish CROs in the World

Here are some of the top zebrafish CROs in the world

Top 5 World-Renowned Mini Pig Providers

Here are some of the most world-renowned mini pig providers

Top 5 organizations in North America that are efficiently using Mass Spectrometry to bring new innovation

Here are some of the best CROs and academic core labs for mass spectrometry in North America

5 Top Innovative Tissue Engineering Startups in 2021

Here are 5 of the world’s most innovative startups for tissue engineering.

Top 5 Innovative Alt-Dairy Biostartups that are Revolutionizing the Dairy Industry

Here are some alt-dairy companies that are revolutionizing the dairy industry

Top 20 Investors for Early Stage Industrial Biotech Startups

Here are some notable investors that are known for investing in early stage industrial biotech startups

Top 30 Innovative Immuno-Oncology Companies in the US: The future of Immunotherapy for Cancer Patients

Here are some of the top innovative immuno-oncology companies in the US

Top 20 Agricultural Biotech Startups to Watch Out for in 2022

Here are some of the top agricultural biotech startups in the world

Scispot is secure by design

Trust, security, and privacy are part of Scispot's fabric

Is Canada the Next Biotech Hotspot?

Canada might be on its way to becoming the next biotech hotspot

How to make your biotech startup a tech company?

Digitize your biotech startup to scale like a tech company

Top 8 Alternative CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing Technologies

Here are some alternatives to the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technology

8 IndieBio backed Industrial Biotech Companies Making a Huge Impact in the Biotech Industry

Here are some of the IndieBio companies that are making a huge impact in the biotech industry.

8 Essential Lab Software Every Scientist Should Know About

Here are some essential lab software every scientist should know about

5 Upcoming Bioscience Companies in the Bay Area to Watch Out for in 2021

Here are some of the upcoming Bioscience Companies in the Bay Area

5 Top Biomanufacturing Startups Making an Impact in the Biotech Industry

Here are some of the top biomanufacturing startups making an impact in the biotech industry

5 Synthetic Biology Companies that are Changing the World

Here are some synthetic biology companies that are changing the world

5 Innovative Artificial Blood Substitute Companies in the World

Here are some of the most innovative artificial blood substitute companies in the world

5 Innovative Anti-Aging Companies in the World

Here are some of the most innovative anti-aging companies in the world

5 Food Technology Companies that are Making the World Better

Here are some of the food technology companies that are making the world a better place

5 European Biotech Companies to Watch Out for in 2021

Here are some of the European biotech companies to watch out for in 2021

6 Emerging Lab-Grown Meat Companies Leading the Charge in 2021

Here are some of the emerging lab-grown meat companies in the world

5 Companies that are Advancing Research Using Ex Vivo Models

Here are some of the companies that are advancing in research using ex vivo models

6 Biotech Companies that are Driving Neuroscience Research Forward using Psychedelics

Here are some of the companies that are driving neuroscience research forward using psychedelics

Top 5 Biofabric Startups that are Leading the Way towards Ethical Fashion

Here are some of the top biofabric startups that are leading the way towards ethical fashion

10 Promising Gene Therapy Companies in Massachusetts

Here are some of the most promising gene therapy companies in Massachusetts

10 Most Innovative 3D Bioprinting Startups in the World Right Now

Here are 10 of the most innovative 3D bioprinting startups in the world right now.

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From Lab to Table: Anne-Sophie Mertgen's Inspiring Journey to Reshape the Meat Industry with Micro Meat

Interviews

This founder has developed a platform that discovers and designs drugs to target 'undruggable' proteins

In this episode of Talk is Biotech! Guru Singh, our CEO, talks to Maria Soloveychik, Co-founder, CEO at SyntheX to learn about her background, entrepreneurial journey, and mission.‍

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This entrepreneur wants to raise the average human lifespan to 800 years

In this episode of Talk is Biotech! Guru Singh, our CEO, talks to Steven Ten Holder, Director at The Knowledge Society (TKS) to learn about his background, entrepreneurial journey, and mission.

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Scispot Impact : Micro Meat

Our Co-founder & CPO, Satya Singh sat down with Gricelda Mendiola, Researcher/Scientist at Micro Meat, to talk about how Scispot is helping Micro Meat digitize and automate their workflows.

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Labsheet Impact - Parallel Bio

Robert loves Labsheets! Robert Torrez is a research associate at Parallel Bio who thinks that Labsheets is a winning combination of form and functionality.

Labsheet Impact - CellChorus

Lindsey loves Labsheets! A research technician at CellChorus, Lindsey uses Scispot to keep everything in the lab organized, and Labsheets has helped her keep track of information for samples and reagents.

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This entrepreneur is on a mission to support Canadian bioentrepreneurs

In this episode of Talk is Biotech! Guru Singh, our CEO, talks to Samir Hamadache, CEO at Forest City SynBio to learn about his background, entrepreneurial journey, and mission.‍

This virtual biotech uses discarded breastmilk to save lives

Talk is Biotech! with Guru Singh & Viraj Mane

This bio entrepreneur started his own life science company to break free from big pharma’s bureaucracy

Talk is Biotech! with Guru Singh and Rajan Bawa

Talk is Biotech! with Serghei Glinca

In this episode of Talk is Biotech!, Guru Singh, our CEO, talks with Serghei Glinca, CEO of CrystalsFirst to learn about his background, entrepreneurial journey, and mission.

Talk is Biotech! with Matt Hodgson

In this episode of Talk is Biotech! Guru Singh, our CEO, talks to Matt Hodgson, Co-Founder at Outbreaker Solutions, to learn about his background, entrepreneurial journey, and mission.

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Talk is Biotech! with Lindsay Pino

In this episode of Talk is Biotech! Guru Singh, our CEO, talks to Lindsay Pino, Co-Founder & CTO at Talus Bio to learn about her background, entrepreneurial journey, and mission.

Talk is Biotech! with John Butler

In this episode of Talk is Biotech! Guru Singh, our CEO, talks to John Butler, CEO/CSO and Founder of QuantumCyte to learn about his background, entrepreneurial journey, and mission.

Talk is Biotech! with Jennifer Côté

In this episode of Talk is Biotech! Guru Singh, our CEO, talks to Jennifer Côté, CEO & Co-Founder at BetterMilk, to learn about her background, entrepreneurial journey, and mission.

Talk is Biotech! with Harland Brandon

In this episode of Talk is Biotech! Guru Singh, our CEO, talks to Harland Brandon, Co-Founder & CEO at Allos Bioscience, to learn about his background, entrepreneurial journey, and mission.

Talk is Biotech! with Guillaume Leboucher

In this episode of Talk is Biotech! Guru Singh, our CEO, talks to Guillaume Leboucher, CEO at Labtoo, to learn about his background, entrepreneurial journey, and mission.

Talk is Biotech! with Eric Merle

In this episode of Talk is Biotech! Guru Singh, our CEO, talks to Eric Merle, Chief Business Innovation Officer at Genoskin, to learn about his background, entrepreneurial journey, and mission.

Talk is Biotech! with Brett Thompson

In this episode of Talk is Biotech! Guru Singh, our CEO, talks to Brett Thompson, CEO at Mzansi Meat, to learn about his background, entrepreneurial journey, and mission.

Talk is Biotech! with Aruna Somasiri

In this episode of Talk is Biotech! Guru Singh, our CEO, talks to Aruna Somasiri, President of Wax-It Histology Services to learn about his background, entrepreneurial journey, and mission.

Talk is Biotech! with Anneke van Heuven

In this episode of Talk is Biotech! Guru Singh, our CEO, talks to Anneke van Heuven, CEO, Co-Founder at AlgoBio, to learn about her background, entrepreneurial journey, and mission.

Talk is Biotech! with Andrew Grey

In this episode of Talk is Biotech! Guru Singh, our CEO, talks to Andrew Grey, CEO of Karma Biotechnologies to learn about his background, entrepreneurial journey, and mission.

Talk is Biotech! with Adi Goldman

In this episode of Talk is Biotech! Guru Singh, our CEO, talks to Adi Goldman, CEO & Co-Founder at Biotic, to learn about his background, entrepreneurial journey, and mission.

Talk is Biotech! with Shane Kilpatrick

In this episode of Talk is Biotech! Guru Singh, our CEO, talks to Shane Kilpatrick, CEO at Membio, to learn about his background, entrepreneurial journey, and mission.

Talk is Biotech! with Mike Tarselli

In this episode of Talk is Biotech! Guru Singh, our CEO, talks to Mike Tarselli, CSO of TetraScience to learn about his background, entrepreneurial journey, and mission.

Talk is Biotech! with Finn Rieken

In this episode of Talk is Biotech! Guru Singh, our CEO, talks to Finn Reiken, CEO & Co-Founder at LabBench2Business, to learn about his background, entrepreneurial journey, and mission.

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Scispot Impact : Culture Biosciences

Satshabad Khalsa, Software Engineering Manager at Culture Biosciences, gives us insights into how Scispot.io (YC S21) is helping Culture Biosciences digitalize and automate their workflows.

Dissatisfaction became a driving force for this bio entrepreneur to start his own biotech business.

Talk is Biotech! with Guru Singh and Hugo Gagnon

Apheris is setting a new standard for secure data collaboration

Talk is Biotech! with Guru Singh and Robin Röhm

AI Joins Forces with Biology to tackle neuro diseases

Talk is Biotech! with Guru Singh & Krzysztof Potempa

News

Introducing Scispot GLUE - The Must-Have Tool for Computational Biologists Working with Benchling

With GLUE, computational biologists can easily extract, transform, cleanse, and visualize data from Benchling, Airtable, Notion, legacy ELN, and LIMS in one place.

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Scale your biotech as a TechBio company

TechBio company uses tech & data to make science programmable, fast, and scalable

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Scispot integrates with Quartzy so biostartups can automate lab product re-ordering

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Scispot launches Datarooms to automate and control lab data sharing

Across the life science industry, companies are feeling the pressure to lower the cost of product development, speed up development timelines, and improve success rates. To achieve these goals, life science R&D is moving towards a distributed and virtual research model with collaboration between multidisciplinary teams in different labs and often in different organizations.

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Scispot launches Labsheets™ to create digital and automated workflows for life science labs

Modern and flexible, Labsheets is a no-code alternative to spreadsheets and lab information management systems (LIMS)

Scispot launches a no-code digital operating platform to democratize biotech

Scispot.io has launched a digital operating platform for biotech SMEs. The company is based in Waterloo and founded by a former biotech researcher, a Silicon Valley techie, and a product leader.

Scispot is now a MaRS Discovery District portfolio company

Scispot was selected as a MaRS Discovery District portfolio company.

Scispot is now a YC-backed company!

Scispot is now a Y Combinator-backed company!

Best Startup Canada names Scispot™ among the top biotech and SaaS companies in Kitchener

Scispot.io™ featured among the best Kitchener, Ontario (Canada) based companies in the biotech category

Scispot 2.0 is here!

The improved version of Scispot lets you track the entire journey of your samples from labeling, creating aliquots and derivatives to running experiments and preparing reports.

QuantumCyte selects Scispot as its preferred digital partner

QuantumCyte implements Scispot’s platform to automate workflows and increase scientific output

Scispot™ joins forces with IndieBio

Some of the most revolutionary biostartups come from IndieBio, we are honored to be their partner and support these amazing companies.

Culture Biosciences selects Scispot.io as its preferred digital partner for automating its workflows

Culture Bioscience has implemented Scispot to digitize and automate their biomanufacturing workflows and scale up their operations

Contact: team@scispot.io