Vendor:Benchling, Inc.

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Benchling, Inc.
Type Corporation
Industry Laboratory informatics
Headquarters 555 Montgomery St., Suite 1700, San Francisco, California, U.S.
Number of locations 1
Area served U.S.
Products
Website Benchling.com
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/3769390

Benchling, Inc. develops and distributes laboratory informatics software solutions for the life science industry.

History

Benchling, Inc. was founded in November 2014.[1]

Benchling announced in June 2018 that it had wrapped up $14.5 million in Series B investor funding, adding to its $12.9M Series A funding from 2012. With the Series B money, the company planned to hire more people, increase product development, and attract more academic users.[2] In the fall of 2019, the company announced it had obtained an additional $34.5 million in Series C investor funding in order to extend its global reach and expand commercial relationships to get products to market more quickly.[3]

In January 2020, the company launched its Benchling for Lab Automation, a centralized cloud-based solution for automating experiments and other processes through interfacing hardware and software over the cloud.[4]

Technology and products

Benchling Notebook and Benchling for Lab Automation

Benchling Notebook is an electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) that "is more than a digital version of paper."[5] The company best describes the platform as "a lab notebook and a molecular biology suite with a cutting-edge version of traditional LIMS functions."[6] The software is available as a SaaS offering. The Enterprise addition adds features such as custom roles and permissions and workflow management.[7]

Benchling for Lab Automation is a cloud-based laboratory informatics platform that integrates software and hardware to improve automation and data handling of "liquid handlers, plate readers, imaging instruments, chromatography systems, and more."[8]

Features

Product: Benchling Notebook
Experiment, collaboration,
and data management
Chemical and/or mathematical drawing and calculation?
Chemical and/or spectrum file support?
Task and event scheduling?Y[5]
Option for manual result entry?
Multiple data viewing methods?Y[5]
Data and trend analysis?
Data and equipment sharing?Y[9]
Customizable fields and/or interface?
Configurable templates and forms?Y[5]
Query capability?Y[5]
Import data?Y[5]
Internal file or data linking?Y[5]
External file or data linking?
Export data to MS Excel?
Raw data management?
Data warehouse?
Project and/or task management?Y[5]
Inventory management?Y[5]
Document creation and/or management?
Lab and/or group management?
Experiment management?Y[9]
Workflow management?Y[9]
Customer and supplier management?
Quality, security, and compliance
Regulatory compliance?Y[5]
QA / QC functions?
Performance evaluation?
Audit trail?Y[5]
Chain of custody?
Configurable roles and security?
Data normalization?
Data validation?
Data encryption?
Electronic signatures?Y[5]
Version control?Y[5]
Automatic data backup?
Reporting, barcoding, and printing
Custom reporting?
Report printing?
Label support?
Barcode support?
Export to PDF?
Export to MS Word?
Export to HTML and/or XML?
Email integration?
Base functionality
Administrator management?Y[9]
Modular?
Instrument interfacing and management?Y[5]
Mobile device integration?
Third-party software integration?Y[5]
Alarms and/or alerts?
External monitoring?
Messaging?
Bookmarking?Y[5]
Commenting?
Multilingual?
Network-capable?
Web client or portal?
Online or integrated help?
Software as a service delivery model?
Usage-based cost?
Industries served
life sciences, manufacturing and R&D

Pricing

The following pricing information is available for Benchling[7]:

Academic: Free, with access to the molecular biology and notbook apps and rudimentary features.

Professional: Start-ups pay $20,000 per year, supporting up to five users, with minor exclusions.

Enterprise: Pricing is not publicly available.

Demonstration videos and other media

Benchling has 30+ demonstration videos on the Benchling YouTube channel.

Additional information

References

  1. "Business Search". California Secretary of State. http://kepler.sos.ca.gov/. Retrieved 04 April 2016. "Search entity number C3729450" 
  2. Tansey, B. (14 June 2018). "Benchling Scores $14.5M to Grow Online Lab Notebook for Bio-Researchers". Xconomy. https://xconomy.com/san-francisco/2018/06/14/benchling-scores-14-5m-to-grow-online-lab-notebook-for-bio-researchers/. Retrieved 20 February 20. 
  3. Arnason, G. (3 September 2019). "Benchling closes on USD 34.5m in funding". Financial News. Zephyrus Digital. https://financial-news.co.uk/benchling-closes-on-usd-345m-in-funding-20190730115500/. Retrieved 20 February 2020. 
  4. "The Jackson Laboratory, Benchling, Genomenon, And More: News From January 2020". BioIT World. Cambridge Innovation Institute. 30 January 2020. https://www.bio-itworld.com/2020/01/30/the-jackson-laboratory-benchling-genomenon-and-more-news-from-january-2020.aspx. Retrieved 20 February 2020. 
  5. 5.00 5.01 5.02 5.03 5.04 5.05 5.06 5.07 5.08 5.09 5.10 5.11 5.12 5.13 5.14 5.15 "Benchling". Benchling, Inc. https://www.benchling.com/notebook/. Retrieved 10 October 2019. 
  6. Pellegrini, R. (23 October 2018). "What is a LIMS?". Benchtalk. Benchling, Inc. https://www.benchling.com/2018/10/23/what-is-a-lims/. Retrieved 15 December 2019. 
  7. 7.0 7.1 "Benchling Pricing". Benchling, Inc. https://www.benchling.com/pricing/. Retrieved 10 October 2019. 
  8. "Benchling for Lab Automation". Benchling, Inc. https://www.benchling.com/lab-automation/. Retrieved 20 February 2020. 
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 "Benchling Notebook: More Than a Digital Version of Paper" (PDF). Benchling, Inc. https://www.benchling.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Notebook-Overview.pdf. Retrieved 10 October 2019.