Benchling

Benchling is a cloud-based platform tailored for life sciences research and development, offering digital lab-notebook tools, molecular-biology workflows, data-management capabilities and collaboration infrastructure.
The company was founded in 2012, by Sajith Wickramasekara and Ashu Singhal, who met at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Headquartered in San Francisco, California (USA), Benchling’s mission is to “unlock the power of biotechnology” by modernising how scientific R&D is done. 

Why it matters

• Benchling replaces traditional lab practices—paper notebooks, spreadsheets—with a unified digital platform that captures experiments, biomolecule designs, sample inventory, instrument data and more. The result: improved data quality, collaboration, traceability and speed. 
• The platform spans academic research labs, biotech startups and large pharmaceutical companies, enabling workflows in gene editing, cell therapy, synthetic biology, agritech and beyond. 
• For researchers Benchling offers a way to standardise and scale their lab-data infrastructure—even in resource-constrained environments—thereby helping bridge the gap between small labs and industrial R&D setups.