URL: benchsci.com
Legal Name: BenchSci
Primary Location: 460 College St #203, Toronto, ON M6G 1A1, Canada Map
Legal Name: BenchSci
Industry/Sector: Internet Software & Services
Subindustry: Internet Software & Services
Related Tags: Technology, Internet, Information Technology & Services, B2B, SAAS,
Marketplace, Internet Software & Services, Software & Services
Employees: 30
Year Founded: 2015
Company Description
| Internal job site | https://www.benchsci.com/careers-2020 |
| Name | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| David Qixiang Chen | Co-Founder, Chief Innovation Officer (CINO), Director of AI | David has a BSc in Computer Science as a software engineering specialist and a PhD from the Institute of Medical Sciences at University of Toronto. His research focuses on gaining new insight into brain chronic pain neurophysiology and pushing the boundaries of diffusion MRI tractography by pushing toward large populations and clinical deployment. Thus, he is familiar with high-dimensional data, and new ways of applying insights from the brain into deep learning algorithms for automation and pr |
| Liran Belenzon | Co-founder & CEO | Liran Belenzon is the CEO of BenchSci and a graduate of the Rotman MBA program. BenchSci is a machine learning-based startup that has taught a computer to read scientific papers and identify the specific antibodies, as well as other variables, such as specific techniques, tissues, and diseases, used in specific scientific experiments. We had an opportunity to talk with Liran about his entrepreneurial journey, the part that CDL played in it, and lessons learned along the way. |
| Simon Smith | Chief Strategy Officer | |
| Elvis Wianda | CDO and Co-founder | Elvis has a BSc in Biochemistry, MSc in Electrical & Computer Engineering, and is now culminating his PhD thesis in the Department of Medical Biophysics at the University of Toronto. His research focused on signal processing of multi–dimensional neuroimaging data from Electroencephalography (EEG), Magnetoencephalography (MEG) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). He has successfully developed cutting-edge software algorithms and statistical tools for improving time-series analyses of signal det |
| Tom Leung | CSO and Co-founder | Tom completed his MSc in Virology and PhD in Epigenetics at the University of Toronto. For his PhD thesis, he investigated the molecular mechanism of repressive genetic bookmarking during cellular division and the potential application of reversing these bookmarks as alternative cancer therapeutic approaches. As a molecular biology research scientist, Tom experienced first hand the inefficient organization of biomedical publications. Tom is very passionate about the development of a solution t |
| Data Point | Information |
|---|
| Funding Type | Funding Raised | Announced On | Funding Series |
|---|---|---|---|
| non_equity_assistance | $ 0 | October 30 2015 | |
| pre_seed | $ 193,820 | October 01 2016 | |
| seed | $ 1.93 million | July 10 2017 | |
| venture | $ 7.92 million | May 02 2018 | A |
| debt_financing | $ 5.57 million | June 26 2019 | |
| venture | $ 5.09 million | June 26 2019 | A |
| Logo | Investor Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Afore Capital | Afore Capital backs product-centric founders at the pre-seed stage exclusively. The investment team brings 16 years of founding product experience (Android and Twitter) and 7 years of institutional investing experience (Founder Collective and Foundation Capital). Their sweet spot is the ~$1M pre-seed round, where they can lead the round as an institutional investor alongside high value angels. | |
 | 500 Startups Canada | |
| Radical Ventures | ||
| Golden Ventures | Golden Ventures is a leading seed-stage venture capital fund, investing across North America. They back bold teams and their transformative ideas. | |
| Real Ventures | We back world-class entrepreneurs building game-changing companies, connecting them to local and national ecosystems and helping guide them through their next stages of evolution. The firm invests throughout the life-cycle of early-stage companies and provides stage-appropriate capital and support for the founders it backs. Real believes that VCs should play a role in accelerating the creation of world-class tech ecosystems by providing support b | |
 | Creative Destruction Lab | The Creative Destruction Lab is a seed-stage program for massively scalable, science- and technology-based ventures. It employs a unique, objectives-focused coaching process to help founders commercialize advances in science and technology. The program pairs startups with exited entrepreneurs and star scientists in areas such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing, healthcare, blockchain, energy, and cleantech. Founded at the Rotman School |
 | Inovia Capital | Inovia Capital is a venture capital firm specializing in investments in early stage, seed, mid venture, late venture, growth capital and start-up stage companies. It seeks to invest in companies with a focus on mobile, consumer Internet, SaaS, Internet communications, software, digital media, information technology, telecommunication, e-commerce, connected devices, healthcare, optical semiconductors, communications, networking, mobility, medical |
 | Gradient Ventures | Gradient Ventures is Google’s new AI-focused venture fund - investing in and connecting early stage startups with Google’s resources, innovation, and technical leadership in artificial intelligence. |
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