Battery Ventures Acquires Labguru
Summary
Battery Ventures, a Boston, MA-based global, technology-focused investment firm, announced the acquisition of Labguru (BioData Inc.), a Cambridge, MA-based life-science laboratory-data platform, from Holtzbrinck Digital. Labguru will join Battery’s Titian Software to create a global organization that offers an end-to-end solution across life sciences and laboratory applications from research to production, spanning the entire workflow from ELN to inventory and sample management, research, testing and QC workflows. Labguru’s executive team, including CEO Ariel Yarnitsky and founder and CTO Jonathan Gross, will remain in their current roles, working alongside the Titian executive team following the transaction. Led by Ariel Yarnitsky, CEO and Founder, Labguru provides a comprehensive laboratory data-management hub for planning and tracking, documenting experiments, streamlining lab logistics; and sharing results across teams and organizations. Its cloud-based, research-to-production life-science platform combines an electronic lab notebook (ELN), a laboratory information management system (LIMS) and a set of informatics tools to enable and enhance research and production.