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Benchling

Benchling

Private
San Francisco, CaliforniaHealthcare & Life Scienceshttps://www.benchling.com

Last Round

Series F

Nov 17, 2021

Est. Valuation

$6.1B

Total Funding Raised

$405.05M

Momentum

Top 5%

of companies Caplight tracks

Company Overview

Benchling is a life sciences company that provides a lab collaboration platform to enhance the speed and collaboration of research through a suite of integrated applications for designing, sharing, and recording experiments, as well as managing DNA-sequence data in the cloud.

Sector

Healthcare & Life Sciences

Verticals

Biotechnology, Vertical SaaS, Drug Discovery, Workflow Automation

Business Model

B2B

Customer Profile

Subscription SaaS, Services & Consulting, Freemium

AI Layer

Application

Keywords

R&D cloudlife sciences platformelectronic lab notebookELNR&D informaticsbiotech softwareLIMSscientific data platformAI-ready datadrug discovery softwarelab inventory managementmolecular biology softwareGxP compliancevalidated cloudfreemium SaaSPLG

Price History

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Delayed data

Caplight MarketPrice™

$9.91

per share, as of December 2025

+0.7%

2-year change

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Benchling Comparables

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Benchling comparables — related companies by embedding similarity
CompanySimilarityMarket Cap
Siemens
86%
Sapio Sciences
84%
Cenevo
81%

Benchling Funding Rounds

Historical fundraising activity

Data table
RoundDateAmount RaisedValuationInvestorsSources
Series FNov 17, 2021
Series EApr 14, 2021
Series DMay 28, 2020
Series CJul 24, 2019
Series BJun 14, 2018
VC Round
Oct 24, 2016

Key People

Founding team and executive leadership

Sajith Wickramasekara

Founder & CEO

Founding Team

Benchling Investors

Notable investors and investment history

Benchling investors
InvestorRounds
Andreessen HorowitzVC Round, Series C, Series A
Benchmark CapitalSeries E, Series D, Series C
SV AngelSeed, Series A, Accelerator
ICONIQ CapitalSeries E, Series D
F-Prime CapitalSeries C, Series B
Founders FundSeed, Series A
Thrive CapitalSeries E, Series D, Series C, Series A, Series B, VC Round

Market signals

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  • Apr 30, 2026

    Integrated with Seqera Labs and Amazon S3 for R&D lifecycle management.

  • Apr 27, 2026

    Calira joins as an ecosystem partner.

Benchling Filings

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Benchling Filings

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Firmographic Details

HeadquartersSan Francisco, California
Employee Range810
Year Founded2012
Last FundingNov 17, 2021

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