Benchling
Agent46Agent Readiness: 46/100. Above median. Measured by StartupHub.ai. Median 41.Trust89Data Trust: 89/100. Top 25%. Measured by StartupHub.ai. Median 61.R&D cloud platform for life sciences, enabling scientific innovation and productivity.
About
Benchling offers a cloud-based platform for biotech R&D that digitizes labs, automates workflows, and increases productivity with AI. It enables teams to plan, record, and share experiments, build a unified data foundation for scientific data, and evolve with their R&D on an open, flexible platform. Benchling serves teams across discovery, pre-clinical, and process development, including those in bioresearch, bioprocess, and biologics.
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Key facts
- Website
- benchling.com
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, United States
- Founded
- 2012
- Total funding
- $419M (Series F)
- Business model
- B2B
Funding rounds
| Date | Round | Amount | Post-money | Lead investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 Nov 2021 | Series F | $100M | $6.1B | Fidelity Investments, Lone Pine Capital |
| 14 Apr 2021 | Series E | $200M | Sequoia Capital Global Equities | |
| 28 May 2020 | Series D | $50M | Alkeon | |
| 24 Jul 2019 | Series C | $35M | Menlo Ventures | |
| 14 Jun 2018 | Series B | $15M | Benchmark | |
| 24 Oct 2016 | Seed | $7M | Thrive Capital | |
| 1 Jan 2016 | Series A | $10M | ||
| 1 Jan 2015 | Seed | $3M |
Tech stack
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- Compliance
- SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, CCPA
- Frontend
- Next.js
- Analytics
- Google Tag Manager
- Support
- Drift, Zendesk
- CMS / Builders
- Shopify
- CDN
- Vercel
- Email provider
- Google Workspace
- Status page
- Statuspage
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Frequently asked
Is Benchling trustworthy and reputable?
StartupHub's Data Trust & Reputation score for Benchling is 89 out of 100, a trusted rating, based on site security posture, privacy practices, malware and phishing checks, and public reputation signals.
How much funding has Benchling raised?
Benchling has raised a total of $419M in funding. The most recent round on record is Series F.
