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Benchling

Benchling

Benchling is a company based in San Francisco focusing on life science collaboration, both private and public, through creating cloud based software tools for digital DNA sequence editing, designing and running experiments, analyzing data, and sharing research.

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benchling.com
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Organization
Organization
Company
Company

Company attributes

Industry
Research and development
Research and development
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Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics
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Data management
Collaboration
Collaboration
Software
Software
Genomics
Genomics
...
Location
San Francisco
San Francisco
B2X
B2B
B2B
CEO
Sajith Wickramasekara
Sajith Wickramasekara
Founder
Sajith Wickramasekara
Sajith Wickramasekara
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Cory Li
Cory Li
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Ashutosh Singhal
Ashutosh Singhal
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AngelList URL
angel.co/benchling
Pitchbook URL
pitchbook.com/profiles.../61617-16
Legal Name
Benching, Inc.
Accelerator
Y Combinator
Y Combinator
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Accelerator Batch
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Y Combinator S12 Batch
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Legal classification
Corporation
Corporation
Date Incorporated
May 22, 2012
Number of Employees (Ranges)
501 – 1,0000
Email Address
contact@benchling.com
inquiries@benchling.com
Phone Number
+14155902798
Full Address
680 Folsom St., 8th Floor San Francisco, CA 94107
555 Montgomery St Ste 1700 San Francisco​, CA, 94111-2545 United States
CIK Number
1,687,403
Place of Incorporation
Delaware
Delaware
Incorporation Reference
5158596
Investors
Sequoia Capital Global Equities
Sequoia Capital Global Equities
Alkeon Capital Management
Alkeon Capital Management
Lead Edge Capital
Lead Edge Capital
Elad Gil
Elad Gil
Spark Capital
Spark Capital
Menlo Ventures
Menlo Ventures
Franklin Templeton Investments
Franklin Templeton Investments
Lone Pine Capital
Lone Pine Capital
...
Founded Date
2012
0
Total Funding Amount (USD)
411,903,133
Latest Funding Round Date
November 2021
Competitors
Alchemy Cloud
Alchemy Cloud
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Repositive
Repositive
Smpl Bio
Smpl Bio
Synthace
Synthace
PetaGene
PetaGene
Business Model
Subscription
Glassdoor ID
1291069
CTO
Stephen Deasy
Stephen Deasy
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Key People
Stephen Deasy
Stephen Deasy
Sajith Wickramasekara
Sajith Wickramasekara
Ashutosh Singhal
Ashutosh Singhal
Latest Funding Type
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Series F
Patents Assigned (Count)
1
Wellfound ID
benchling
Technologies Used
HotJar
HotJar
Tableau Software
Tableau Software
Segment (company)
Segment (company)
Notion
Notion
Country
United States
United States

Other attributes

Blog
blog.benchling.com
Company Operating Status
Active
Postmoney Valuation
6,100,000,000
Latest Funding Round Amount (USD)
100,000,000
Wikidata ID
Q63417942
Y Combinator URL
ycombinator.com/compani...enchling0

Benchling is based in San Fransisco and was founded in 2012 by Sajith Wickramasekara, Ashutosh Singhal and Cory Li of MIT. The company focuses on life science collaboration, both private and public, through creating cloud based software tools for digital DNA sequence editing, designing and running experiments, analyzing data, and sharing research.

Introduction to Benchling

Products and services
Electronic lab notebook

Benchling software includes an electronic lab notebook that allows researchers to document their experiments. Benchling claims their notebook software reduces data entry time by up to 85%.

Molecular biology suite

The molecular biology suite is an integrated, all in one, interface offering CRISPR guides, automation of primer designs, plasmid visualization, sequence alignment, and other relevant biological and chemical software tools.

Bioregistry

The bioregistry is a fully integrated platform for creating, organizing, and documenting workflow for biologists, particularly for sequence editing and strain engineering. Benchling designed the bioregistry to track and assign features to organisms, import data from standardized databases, and give biologists the power to take notes within the bioregistry itself.

Introduction to the Benchling Bioregistry

Sample tracking

Bechling offers an inventory tracking system with their software. The system allows for the tracking of individual samples, containers, and instruments within the lab.

Workflow management

Benchling offers a workflow management systems that helps to design and manage work, provide feedback on progress, identify workflow bottlenecks, and improve decision making.

Funding
Angel round

On December 1, 2012 Benchling became the first synthetic biology company to be backed by Y Combinator and received $900,000 in funding from: Y Combinator, FF Angel, Draper Associates, and other angel investors.

Seed

On April 15, 2015 Benchling raised $5,000,000 in seed funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive Capital, and Kevin Mahaffey. The funding helped Benchling grow their software engineering and customer support teams.

Series A

On October 3, 2016 Benchling completed their series A funding round, raising $7,000,000 from Thrive Capital.

Partnerships
Gen9

On November 16, 2016 Benchling announced its partnership with Gen9 — a company making making synthetic DNA. The partnerships between the two companies seeks to make it easier for customers to order large DNA libraries from Gen9 using Benchling's online software.

Timeline

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Funding Rounds

Products

Acquisitions

SBIR/STTR Awards

Patents

Further Resources

Title
Author
Link
Type
Date

Benchling Partners With Gen9 on DNA Library Design Tool as Software Suite Grows

Andrew Han

https://www.genomeweb.com/informatics/benchling-partners-gen9-dna-library-design-tool-software-suite-grows#.WuHXkVMvyV4

Benchling Review: Best Biotech Genome Research Software - AngelKings.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OxkWuXkWTY

July 3, 2015

Benchling wants to become the Salesforce of biotech

Laura Lorenzetti

http://fortune.com/2015/04/15/benchling-funding-biotech/

Google Docs for life sciences startup Benchling raises $7 million in growth funding from Thrive Capital

Sarah Buhr

https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/03/google-docs-for-life-sciences-startup-benchling-raises-7-million-in-growth-capital-from-thrive-a16z-and-others/

iGEM Webinar Series - Webinar 1: Introduction to the Benchling Platform (2020)

https://youtu.be/I_xUGqWKIcw

Web

May 7, 2020

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