The early R&D
scouting & prospecting
platform in life sciences.

Identify best-fit KOLs, rising stars, labs, startups & pharma partners.
Landscape novel research, technologies, targets, assets & indications.
AcademicLabs AI turns weeks of scattered research into decisions & opportunities in minutes.
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Sounds familiar?
Hours digging across PubMed, patents, trials, grants, PitchBook, websites, LinkedIn - all siloed. Days later, still no clear answer.

Pipeline databases miss the early science, emerging startups, and academic labs where it all begins.

General-purpose LLMs hallucinate names, miss most results, and can't analyze scientific datasets at scale.

Your team is stretched thin, while your stakeholders need answers.
There's a better way
One  platform. 150K Labs, 22M Researchers, 500K Companies — with publications, patents, grants, trials, news — all connected. Find your needles in any haystack - in minutes.

Best-fit partners in clicks. AI scores against your criteria - with evidence to verify.

Landscape at scale.
1,000s of R&D documents analyzed in under a minute.

Actionable intelligence immediately - not weeks of reading.
all in one
From billions of data points
to the signal in the noise.
Landscape any disease, technology, target, modality, asset and more.
Find the experts, startups, innovations, and opportunities that matter - in minutes, not weeks.
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AcademicLabs R&D Landscaping Platform
Most in-depth 360° scientific profiles
22M researcher profilespublications · projects · trials · patents · h-index · email
150K research group profilesmission · ongoing research · PIs · website · projects · trials
500K company profilessearchable website · news · trials · patents · funding · contacts
built from
Connected research data · constantly updated
Ready
Built for the teams that find what's next.
AcademicLabs is the R&D landscaping platform for innovation, scouting, intelligence, R&D and partnering teams who need full coverage and clear answers - not weeks of digging.

Pharma & Large Biotech

External Innovation · BD & Licensing · S&E · CI · Academic Partnerships · R&D · Strategy
Your next scouting request - a KOL map, a technology landscape, the best-fit labs and startups for your priority indications - done by end of day, not next month.
You now deliver in minutes what used to take a department weeks - grounded in evidence, not assumptions.

Biotech Startups

Founders · CSOs · BDs ·Scientists · Small teams wearing multiple hats
One cockpit to map your KOLs, select indications, track competition, spot novel technologies, find the investors and strategic partners who move your program forward.
One platform. One person. The intelligence capability your investors and partners expect from large pharma teams.

Investors & Venture Studios

Life science VCs · Venture builders · Family offices · Corporate venture
A startup applies. By tomorrow you've identified KOLs to consult, assessed the technology, mapped the competition and potential strategic partners, and evaluated the team.
Then source the next deal yourself - from the early-stage startups, assets, funded projects, patents, labs and scientific evidence that PitchBook  will never show you.

Life Science Consultants

Large firms · Strategy · Management · Specialist advisory firms
Your client needs best-fit KOLs, strategic partners, competitive landscape, and a technology assessment. You deliver all four - in days, not weeks.
More depth, less time, better margins. And when you show them what's possible, the next engagement sells itself.
From Search  to Strategy.
Every workflow ends with a clear answer: the best-fit partner, a complete landscape, or an early signal no one else caught.
95% less noise. Only the signals that matter.
You define what matters - therapeutic fit, scientific strength and validation, collaboration potential, stage, IP position -  and AcademicLabs ranks every result against your criteria. No more debating lists. You get scored shortlists with justification and sources, ready to act on.
  • Best-fit KOLs/Rising Stars scored on your criteria
  • Research Groups who spun out startups before
  • Research groups assessed on collaboration potential, plus tailored collaboration ideas
  • Startups compared on technology, asset validation and preclinical evidence, IP and partnerships.
  • Pharma ranked for strategic partner-fit based on research, IP, clinical and partnership strategy
"It saves so many man-hours, it's a no-brainer."
VP Innovation
at a Top 20 Pharma
From thousands of records to the few insights that truly matter.
When the challenge is making sense of an entire field, AcademicLabs' AI generates custom questions and extracts structured answers from every patent, publication, trial, funded project or new article -  giving you a filterable landscape you can segment by novelty, modality, disease, validation stage, organization type, or any dimension that matters to you.
  • Competitive overview of every player in an indication
  • Novel technological approaches and validation for any modality
  • Early-stage assets mapped by stage, mechanism, early results and competitive positioning
  • Full technology landscape across an entire patent space
  • FTO pre-screening ready for your patent attorney
"To decide which targets and indications to expand to, we analyzed 8,000+ publications in minutes, extracting targets, indications, evidence, and stage. What would have taken days became an instant, filterable landscape."  
Stephanie Staelens
Head of Early Drug Discovery Project Management
Confo Therapeutics
Surface what's emerging - before it's obvious.
AcademicLabs' AI draws on connected early-stage data to surface signals across newly funded projects, recent patents, emerging publications, ongoing research in labs, startup websites and news - the signals that traditional pipeline databases are too slow to catch.
  • Rising researchers before they're on any radar
  • Stealth companies surfacing via patents & projects
  • Track developments across your startup watchlist
  • Novel targets with early validation
  • First-in-class technologies in funded projects
"We tried many leading solutions. AcademicLabs is by far the best one for our early-stage interests."
VP Technologies
Top 10 Pharma
Trusted by scouting teams worldwide.
We wanted to evaluate thousands of publications to decide which targets and indications to expand into. AcademicLabs' AI screened 8,000+ papers - extracting targets, target roles in indications, key findings, evidence, parties involved. So instead of spending days reading, we spent our time on what matters: deeply analyzing the most relevant work and making strategic decisions.
Stephanie Staelens
Head of Early Drug Discovery Project Management
Confo Therapeutics
AcademicLabs has been extremely helpful in identifying both large swaths of and specific researchers doing work in particular fields and institutions. Utilizing functions like filtering by recent publications, currently funded projects, and rising stars has greatly focused my search and vetting processes for potential academic partners. At the end of the day, AL gives me the confidence that I haven't missed anyone or anything major in my company's areas of interest.
Sherry Lin
Associate Academic Partnerships
BridgeBio
AcademicLabs has been really useful for us - from helping realign our grant applications to giving us a clear view of new indications we otherwise wouldn’t have touched.
For a small biotech without a dedicated intelligence team, it’s a powerful tool.
Ryan Murray
Co-Founder & CSO
Kiragen Bio
It was astonishing - literally in less than a minute, I mapped with AcademicLabs' AI 5000 clinical trials started in 2025 to my list of 170 diseases of interest, so I could uncover opportunities for diseases with a relatively high loss of healthy life years that seem underinvestigated.
Mark Tillotson
Strategy Consultant (Therapy Area, Pipeline and Portfolio Strategy)
I was losing so much time on PubMed, it was impossible to identify all key virology researchers in select EU countries to engage them for an EU project. With AcademicLabs, it was so easy. I vouch for AcademicLabs in our organization and externally!
Drug Discovery Scientific Leader
Top 10 Pharma Company 
AcademicLabs has a fantastic platform to support scientific intelligence and horizon scanning.
In addition, the team is very responsive and provide great support.
A brilliant, time-saving solution which enables deep insights.
Emma Jacquier PhD
CO-ceo
Neat Science Consulting®
I sincerely like it. I’m not using PubMed at all anymore. It is so convenient having all sort of different databases in a single one stop solution, it saves me a lot of efforts and time. It’s now even my start site in Chrome. To find literature, researchers, companies, etc.
Scientific Director
TOP 5 Pharma COmpany
I used it a lot and every time I use it I get value. I mostly used it to proactively identifying the professors I want to talk to at a university prior to meeting a university Tech Transfer Office, instead of relying on the TTO’s suggestions.
   
BUsiness development & partnerships
leading venture studio
I looked at the funded projects and immediately found two different projects that were extremely relevant and unknown to me - competing directly with a startup we may invest in.
   
Partner
deeptech venture studio
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KOL & Rising Star Identification

No one goes deeper in the science, or faster in AI-ranking the best fit.

Biotech & Life Science Company Intelligence

Find companies by their science with the most comprehensive science-based company profiling . AI evaluates hundreds and reports which ones fit.

Research Group Collaborator Landscaping

The only platform profiling 150K+ research groups with their current focus and track record, with AI to score the best match.

Literature Search & AI Analysis

Everything you wish PubMed did.
AI screens 2,000 papers to extract what you seek in 2 minutes, spot trends, see which labs, authors, universities, biotech startups or pharma publish research relevant to you and how they focus is evolving.

Technology, Target & Indication Landscaping

Full landscape across papers, patents, trials, grants, news, companies, labs and experts - in one integrated search - with AI extracting structured insights for you to find what truly matters in a few clicks.

Novel Research & Horizon Scanning

Every early signal - projects, patents, papers, news, focus of labs and new startups, or novel  - connected in one place.

Competitive Intelligence

From any research topic to 'who's behind it' in two clicks.
AI assesses every relevant competitor, what they do, and what's risky.

Asset Intelligence (Coming soon)

With early-stage pipeline data  that expensive databases miss, and with AI-powered intel on each asset.

Explore our intelligence categories.

Separately, they're databases. Here, they're connected - from academic research to pharma pipelines - and analyzed by AI at scale.
Find the 10 labs that matter - from 150,000 profiled worldwide.

Key use cases

  • Find the top groups working on any topic in 1 click
  • Score and rank collaboration potential across 1000s of groups
  • Find research Groups who spun out startups before
  • Easily evaluate a lab's specific expertise, trends, collaboration insights & more
  • Spot  expertise hotspots in any topic or geography

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150K+ university group websites from top 1000 universities, manually curated. Mission, ongoing research, website content, PIs.
Linked to their publications, patents, trials, projects, collaborators, university rankings, scientific awards, contact info, etc.

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"Just incredible! For any innovation challenge, we now get a report of which groups are best equiped for us to collaborate with. The AI even proposes excellent ideas for how we could effectively collaborate!"

External Innovation Director
Top 20 Pharma Company
From 22M researchers to the few that match your exact criteria.

Key use cases

  • Find the best-fit KOLs on any topic in one click
  • Score and rank KOL fit across 1000s of researchers
  • Get a report on which rising stars fit best with your very specific criteria
  • Crowdsource solutions from the 100s of experts that are truly relevant, with a tailored email for each.
  • Identify the researchers who spun out startups

Sources

Worldwide publication, patent, trial, project databases. University websites. ORCID.
Enriched with h-index, i10-index, email, LinkedIn, affiliations, collaborators, awards...
"There's so much depth in information on all these researchers and the AI perfectly surfaces who matters most -  with the evidence to back it up."

KOL Identification Analyst
Top 20 Pharma company
Find any life science company by their science. Not just their funding or late-stage pipeline.

Key use cases

  • Find & assess with AI any startups, spinoffs, strategic pharma partners, investors, CROs/CDMOs
  • Evaluate hundreds of startups for in-licensing or collaboration potential - scored and ranked
  • Track your watchlist for scientific and commercial developments
  • Landscape any technology, target or indication to map the companies that score best on your criteria.
  • Find companies by asset stage, recent SBIR grant, patent filing, submodality, disease, investor,...

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Company websites, 21K+ incubator portfolios, 17K+ investor portfolios, 5K+ spinoffs, cluster directories, web, social media, government documents...
Enriched with searchable website content, news, patents, clinical trials, projects, publications, latest investment, investors, stage, type/sector,  leadership, advisors, contacts...

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"We needed to landscape every company working on a technology - including the preclinical ones often missing in other databases. Within 20 minutes we had a full picture: who's doing what, how advanced they are, the science behind each one, trends and clusters, and which companies fit best with our partnering criteria "

Technology Scout
Top 10 Pharma company
The earliest signal on where research is going next.

Key use cases

  • Find first-in-class innovations from newly funded projects
  • Identify early-stage assets and technologies before they reach publications or patents
  • Discover startups and spinoffs with new grants
  • Discover who just received major funding on your topic
  • Assess grant funding and innovation focus for a startup, large pharma, lab or research.

Sources

US (NIH, NSF), Europe (EU, UKRI,  German DFG, Swiss NSF, Swedish RC, French ANR), Japan (translated KAKEN, AMED) and The Wellcome Trust.
Linked to researchers, research groups, universities and companies.

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"We analyzed 2,000 recently funded projects on drug delivery. In 3 minutes we identified dozens of potentially competing drug delivery innovations being developed which we are closely monitoring now."

CSO
A US Drug Delivery Startup
Who's studying what. How they're designing it. Where it's heading.

Key use cases

  • Find clinical investigators and trial sites by therapeutic area and geography
  • Map the competitive landscape in any indication by phase and company
  • Compare trial designs, endpoints, and biomarkers across hundreds of trials
  • Analyze all trial for any drug, drug class or indication
  • Spot novel trial design patterns - arms, dosing, adaptive designs

Sources

ClinicalTrials.gov + 19 WHO registries: US, EU, China, India, Japan, Korea, Australia + 12 more
Linked to investigators, research groups, universities, startups, pharma, phase, status, timing, diseases, drugs, interventions, trial setup & more.
"The analysis I am presenting - on how timing of starting to work on popular targets impacts company value - would not have been possible without AcademicLabs. The platform let me pull together structured insights from company trials, publications, and patents in hours instead of days. That efficiency made it feasible to connect scientific entry timing to market signals - a capability no other platform delivered.
And it was astonishing - literally in less than a minute, I mapped with AcademicLabs' AI 5000 clinical trials that started in 2025 to my list of 170 diseases of interest, so I could uncover opportunities for diseases with a relatively high loss of healthy life years that seem underinvestigated."

Mark Tillotson
Strategy Consultant (Therapy Area, Pipeline and Portfolio Strategy)
Go from 10,000 papers to the 5 that matter - without reading a single abstract

Key use cases

  • Map who recently published on any topic - PIs, labs, biotechs, institutions, pharma - globally.
  • AI generates 20 relevant questions and answers across up to 2,000 papers - creating a tailored, structured, filterable dataset for any topic
  • Extract targets, mechanisms, technologies, and evidence from thousands of publications at once
  • Surface early-stage asset signals years before pipeline databases
  • Identify publishing trends by researcher, lab, company, target, technology or topic over time

Sources

All 40M from PubMed plus 70M additional  STEM papers, including preprints, conference abstracts...  
Enriched with disease, gene, species, chemical, mutation, topic, field annotations, journal rankings, citations, publication types & more.
Linked to researcher, group, university and company profiles.
“We wanted to evaluate 1,000s of publications to decide which targets and indications to expand into. AcademicLabs' AI screened 8,000+ papers - extracting targets, target roles in indications, key findings, evidence, parties involved. So instead of spending days reading, we spent our time on what matters: deeply analyzing the most relevant work and making strategic decisions."

Stephanie Staelens
Head of Early Drug Discovery Project Management
Confo Therapeutics
Landscape any technology's novelty and IP in minutes. Not months.

Key use cases

  • Landscape technology novelty across 1,000s of patents minutes
  • Identify who's patenting what - and what they're protecting
  • Spot labs or PIs at universities with new patents who may spin out a venture or out-license a technology.
  • Find white space. Pre-screen 1,000s of patents for freedom-to-operate. Reduce 99% noise
  • Track competitive patent filings early

Sources

US, European, International, Japanese patent offices, since 2005 (more upon request).
Linked to inventors, assignees, groups.
AI-extractable claims, novelty, full-texts.
"Freedom to operate patent work is super time consuming. It requires a lot of brain power. The more I use AcademicLabs, the more I think it's super good. We assessed several leading providers, and none could do what AcademicLabs enables."

Innovation Leader
Top 10 Consumer Healthcare company
Landscape every deal, partnership, discovery and funding round in your space, structured by AI.

Key use cases

  • Get a structured landscape of all investments, deals & partnerships in an indication or technology area
  • Spot emerging startups and technologies before they appear in databases or pipeline trackers
  • Track competitor moves - funding rounds, licensing deals, regulatory approvals - as they happen
  • Combine news with scientific activities for full trajectory analysis
  • Daily email digests on your watchlist, topic of interest, deals, discoveries & more.  

Sources

60K+ news sources, updated every 6 hours, AI-annotated with subjects and organizations.
Linked to companies.
AI annotations: Partnership, M&A, Funding, Regulatory, Clinical Results & More.
"I searched for all funding rounds and partnerships for a modality of interest, and within 1 minute I had a structured overview of who's investing in what, partnering with whom, and new discoveries being announced."

Analyst
Biotech Investor

See AcademicLabs in action
through our Discovery Hub.

KOL Fit Analysis

Find, score and rank the experts that fit best with your specific crtieria - in minutes

Landscape Biotech Startups

Find, score and rank biotech startups at scale based on tech validation

Rising Star Scouting

Identify tomorrow's leaderswho fit best with your specific needs

Collaboration Potential

Find, score and rank best-fit partners with collaboration suggestions

Startup In-Licensing

Identify asset and platform technology opportunities at scale

Technology Landscaping

Map novel ADC innovations across patents

First-in-class Innovations

Landscape any new innovations in the making acorss new projects

Track Startup Developments

Monitor quarterly developments and progress of your startup watchlsit

Identify Novel Targets

Analyse at scale emerging evidence for new targets for any indication

Early-Stage Assets

Landscape early-stage assets via emerging scientific evidence

Late-Stage Assets

Map assets and clinical results for any indication

FTO Prescreening

Filter out 95% of irrelevant patents to focus your attorney where it matters

Innovative Trial Design

Map innovative trial designs, endpoints and biomarkers.

Frequently asked questions.

Can I get a tailored demo with my own search topic and use cases?

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Absolutely. We can have a first exploratory live demo - and if interested, our founder can provide deeper tailored guidance to fully understand the limits of what is (not) possible, as well as answer any questions you may have.

What kind of support do I get?

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Every team gets direct access to our founding team, including our Founder/CEO Arne, during onboarding and beyond. We map your use cases, Arne guides you in adopting the best possible workflows, proactively updates you on new relevant improvements, and provides you with ongoing support and guidance whenever you need it. This isn't a self-serve tool with a help center - it's a partnership. Arne loves to help you out, figure out solutions and workarounds, as well as lead the engineering team to innovate and improve the platform to your benefit. So the more feedback, the better for everyone!

Can I try AcademicLabs for free?

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Yes. You can fully search the platform and use AI to evaluate experts, labs companies or research data. With 500 AI credits you can create a report on top 25 profiles or analyze 500 publications, patents, projects, trials or news articles for free. Start your free trial here (https://app.academiclabs.com/signup?coupon=2-DAY-TRIAL). Book a demo (see below) to get tailored guidance.

How is AcademicLabs priced?

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Our mission is to democratize access to sophisticated, actionable R&D intelligence. Therefore, our all-in-one platform is priced lower than most incumbent point solutions. And the smaller your organization, the lower your annual subscription fee. For SMEs, we offer full company licenses so anyone in your team can benefit from data-driven R&D intelligence to advance the company. For large companies, we offer tiered pricing based on number of users and modules. For academics, we have special plans for research groups, AI powerusers, academic researchers and students. Every subscription includes AI capabilities and AI credits - with more available for power users. Book a demo to get a quote for your team.

Can AcademicLabs replace Copilot, Claude or ChatGPT for Scouting, Landscaping and R&D research?

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LLMs with search tools gather a few documents from individual databases based on simple queries. They don't have a full view of each researcher, lab, or company — so they miss most results, hallucinate names, and can't provide verifiable evidence. AcademicLabs pre-processes and links all scientific data — publications, patents, trials, grants, news — to researchers, labs, and companies, creating 360° profiles that LLMs can't build on the fly. Deep search finds the right profiles based on all their connected documents, then AI processes each profile's relevant data to rank and score them against your criteria. For large-scale document analysis (, advanced search and 160+ filters first identify the relevant publications, patents, grants, trials, or news. Then, built-in multi-step LLM workflows (with optimized prompts and context preparation) process thousands of those documents at scale - extracting insights and structured answers that no LLM doing one-off web or MCP searches can produce. Tip, you can use LLMs to analyse and synthese the structured finding to create your own report or ask any questions - something that will soon be available in the platform too.

Do you cover early-stage and preclinical companies?

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Yes - this is our core strength. We mapped 19,000 preclinical therapeutic biotech companies! We identify and track emerging startups and for example added over 5,000 university spinoffs, 10,000 small HealthTech companies, 21,000 incubator residents or alumni, and 17,000 startups who raised funding. For each preclinical company, we link to their funded projects, publications, patents, news, company webpages and will soon show their preclinical assets.

How is this different from pipeline databases like GlobalData, Pharmaprojects or Cortellis?

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Pipeline databases focus on clinical-stage assets. AcademicLabs focuses on the full spectrum - from a very early-stage funded academic project to a Phase 4 trial - connected to the researchers, companies, and IP behind it. We show you what's emerging, not just what's in the pipeline. While AcademicLabs does not yet provide structured asset pipelines, you can in 1 click see all drugs and companies with an ongoing phase 2 trial for a specific indication. Even more, we are about to publicly release Asset Intelligence with preclinical to clinical assets across all therapeutic areas within a couple of months! It is currently available for select customers - reach out to info@academiclabs.com to learn more.

How is AcademicLabs different from PubMed or Google Scholar?

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PubMed and Google Scholar are publication search engines. AcademicLabs is also a publication search engine (integrating PubMed and much more), yet it goes much much further. It provides more filters to cut through the noise, instant trends, and connects publications to researchers, groups, universities and companies to find who's doing the most relevant research and assess their expertise or collaboration-fit in a single click. AcademicLabs AI also enables you to extract structured insights from up to 2,000 publications in just 2 minutes. You go from searching publications for hours or days to taking action in minutes. And of course, beyond publications, in one integrated search you find the relevant newly funded projects, patents, clinical trials, news, assets (soon), companies, research groups and researchers.

Can AcademicLabs handle custom projects leveraging all this data?

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Yes. Beyond the platform, we regularly run tailored projects - in-depth competitive landscaping, custom asset intelligence gathering, scale compound FTO screening combining AcademicLabs capabilities with external data and LLMs, prepare crowdsourcing campaigns, university output reporting, APIs for university out-licensing market intel, APIs and custom work for consultants and large pharma... Just send us an email via info@academiclabs.com and our CEO is happy to explore options together.

Does AcademicLabs provide API access?

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Yes, we also offer API access to our research data, our unique 360° profiles and our AI processing capabilities. You can build on top of all this, connect to your internal systems, or combine it with LLMs for advanced workflows. If interested to explore options, please reach out to info@academiclabs.com.

What does 'AI-powered' actually mean here?

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Our AI (GPT5.4) reads and analyzes the actual retrieved underlying data - publications, patents, trial records, grant descriptions, company websites, news articles. Every answer links back to its source and shows the sentence it used to make verification very easy. The prompts and workflows are built to prevent hallucinations, no black boxes.

Can I evaluate hundreds of profiles or companies at once?

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Yes. One option is for our AI to analyze up to 2,000 researcher or research group profiles or 1,000 companies - analysing dozens of relevant recent documents for each -against your custom criteria in a few clicks producing scored, profile assessments with evidence. A second option allows to analyze up to 50 groups, researchers or companies and get a tailored report - you can set your own instructions.

How current is the data?

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All major data categories are updated weekly. News is updated every 6 hours. You're working with the latest signals, not last quarter's snapshot.

Who are your typical customers?

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External Innovation, Scouting, Intelligence, BD and R&D teams at pharma and large biotech; Leadership, BD and scientists in biotech startups; Analysts at life science investors and venture studios; and 1-man to analysts at the largest consulting firms; Academic researchers; and Lead Gen, Business Development and Marketing teams at CROs, CDMOs and specialized lab instruments for prospecting.

Can I export results?

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Yes. Search results and AI analyses can be exported to Excel and csv, including custom columns from AI analysis. You can also export contacts with emailsave searches, bookmark results, create alerts, and share bookmarks and profiles with your team.
Sounds familiar?
Manually checking websites, PubMed and LinkedIn for every prospect - fine for 10, impossible for 1,000

No way to systematically screen which of 10,000s of biotechs, labs, or pharma researchers actually match your service capabilities

Existing sales & lead gen intelligence tools either miss early-stage companies, labs and pharma contacts entirely, or lack the scientific depth and AI capabilities to assess actual fit with your offers.

Conference attendee lists with 1,000 names and not enough context on who's worth approaching

Every email sounds the same because real personalization takes research you don't have time for and LLMs lack sufficient context.
There's a better way
Screen 1,000 companies, labs or researchers against your exact capabilities in under 40 seconds. AI reads their recent projects, publications, pipeline, news and website to score scientific fit, explains why and drafts tailored on-point emails.

Find 19K preclinical biotechs, 150K (funded) research groups, and 200K pharma researchers by topic, modality, technology, disease, development stage, and 100 other filters.

Find conference attending companies, filter enriched companies, use AI to know who to talk to, why & get 1:1 tailored partnering, LinkedIn or email message drafts.

Generate tailored emails that reference their specific research linked to your offers - at scale, not 1 by 1.

Affordably priced - so switching is easy.
all in one
From Prospect List
to Pipeline - in Minutes.
Fuel your sales pipeline with the most relevant life science prospects
with the world's deepest scientific lead intelligence
Your prospect search
⏸ Click a scenario or move away
AcademicLabs Platform
360° scientific company, lab & researcher profiles
500K company profilessearchable website content · pipeline stage · funding · leadership · advisors · contacts · emails · investors · modality
150K research group profilescurrent research · group leaders · research metrics · collaboration potential
22M researcher profilesPIs · postdocs · PhDs · company researchers · contact · affiliation · verified emails
AI searches per profile all connected, updated research data
Ready
Built for the teams that sell to life science.
With AcademicLabs you turn scientific data into qualified pipeline - commercial teams find buyers by their science, score fit with AI, and scale personalized outreach in minutes.

CROs

BD Managers · Alliance Directors · Inside Sales · Marketing
Your pipeline depends on finding biotechs at the right stage - before your competitor's email lands first. AcademicLabs surfaces preclinical prospects by submodality, therapeutic area, and development stage, scores their CRO-readiness, and drafts outreach that references their actual pipeline and connects it smoothly with your offers.
One platform to find, qualify, and engage the startups that need you - now.

CDMOs

BD Directors · Account Managers · Commercial Leads · Strategic Partnerships
You need to find companies whose manufacturing needs match your capabilities - biologics, cell & gene, small molecule, or fill-finish. AcademicLabs profiles every biotech's pipeline, recent developments and funding so you can spot the ones approaching manufacturing decisions.
Fewer cold calls. More conversations with companies that are actually ready.

Instrument & Software Suppliers

Sales · Territory Managers · Marketing · SDRs · BD Managers
Your buyers are researchers - in academic labs, pharma R&D, and biotech startups. AcademicLabs lets you find them by function in companies and generally what they actually work on: techniques, technologies, research topics, recent publications. Then export verified emails & generate tailored outreach at scale.
Sell to the right labs and scientific champions.

Life Science Service Providers

Consultancies · IP Firms · Regulatory · Analytical Services
Your next client is a biotech or lab that needs specialized expertise - but doesn't know you exist. AcademicLabs helps you find companies and research groups by their scientific focus. Then reach out with messages that show you understand their work.  Provide value and be the first one they call.
The scientific depth to position yourself as a partner, not a vendor.
Not just lists. Qualified pipeline.
Every workflow ends with a clear answer:
who to contact, what to say, and why they need you.
From 20K leads to the 2,000 that matter most.
Start with the broadest life science database - 19K preclinical biotechs, 500K companies, 150K research groups, 200K+ pharma researchers - and narrow with 100+ filters. Or search a list of company names from a conference, member directory, or CRM export and instantly enrich them with scientific & stage context.
  • Identify funded academic labs working on technologies relevant to your services
  • Filter biotechs by modality, therapeutic area, development stage, funding, geography
  • Search a conference attendee list by company name - get enriched profiles with pipeline, publications, and funding data
  • Find pharma researchers by topic, organization type, publication recency, and seniority
  • Find & export any contact - with verified emails
AI reads the science.
You meet best-fit leads.
You add your services or solutions. AI evaluates a lead's current stage and recent research and business developments  to score how well they fit with your offers, why and drafts tailored outreach.
  • Preclinical biotechs scored on CRO/CDMO-readiness signals
  • Research groups assessed on technique and equipment fit, and active funding
  • Get reports on best-fit prospects, including scoring, why best-fit and tailored email sequences.
  • Conference attendee companies bulk-assessed and scored by scientific fit
  • AI explains why each prospect fits - with evidence
Outreach that sounds like you read their research. Your AI with context did.
AcademicLabs generates tailored email and LinkedIn drafts that reference each prospect's specific pipeline, publications, funded projects, trials, website or recent news - linked to your service offering. Not a mail merge. Real, research-backed personalization.
  • AI-drafted emails referencing their specific pipeline stage, and scientific & technology validation
  • Outreach that explains why your capabilities match their research - not just what you sell
  • Tailored partnering pitches for conference meetings
  • LinkedIn messages tied to their recent publications, funded projects, patents, trials or news
  • Scale from 1 personalized email to 1,000 in 1 minute without losing quality
Trusted by prospecting teams worldwide.
Just one month in and we already got promising partner meetings scheduled with preclinical startups we would not have met otherwise. Using AcademicLabs has made our market analysis much more efficient and targeted, saving us a lot of time and resulting in more promising partner meetings. We are really happy with our choice.
Michele Farisco
International Marketing Director
Biogem.it
We use it to identify preclinical biotechs whose pipeline matches our CDMO capabilities - what used to take our BD team a full week now takes an afternoon.
VP Business Development
A leading CDMO
Instead of spending 2 weeks qualifying and sending meeting requests to the BioEurope attendee list, we searched the company names, filtered, ran AI assessment, and contacted the 150 best-fit prospects with tailored partnering messages and emails - in 4 hours. We never had more qualified meetings at BioEurope!
Business Development Manager
A CRO
Unlike in Zymewire, SciLeads, Zoominfo, GlobalData and Monocl, in AcademicLabs I could easily find the details of recently funded projects, publications, clinical trials and patents, as well filter by all kinds of related criteria to identify and reach out in a personalized way to the most promising experts, groups and companies that are currently active in an area for which we offer specialized imaging instruments. This led to much higher reply rates and more sales.
Sales development representative
An Imaging instrument startup
Compared to my previous desktop research, AcademicLabs saves me an enormous amount of time. The pay-off for me is in terms of the wealth of information I can rely on. I can now look for and find researchers, institutes, companies, KOLs, funding, patents relevant for our business. And only in a split second!
Business Development Manager
Novosanis
From target list to outreach-ready in minutes. With scientific depth no other tool delivers.

1. Find

The most extensive and signal-rich scientific leads database.
500K Companies, 150K labs and 22M researchers - searchable by their recent science, funding, location & more. 160+ filters.

2. Research

The deepest 360° scientific profiles with publications, patents, trials, funded projects, news, website (soon asset intel). Everything connected. No more tab-switching. AI digests it for you.

3. Qualify

AI reads their pipeline, publications, grants & news. Scores scientific fit. Explains why.

4. Get Contacts

Lab PIs, company leadership and researchers and - very soon - any company contact via life science-specific functions, titles and seniority. With verified emails.

5. Personalize

AI drafts tailored emails, LinkedIn and Partnering messages referencing their actual science and -  and connecting it to your best-matching offer.

6. Scale

Bulk-assess and generate outreach for 1000s of prospects at once. In minutes, not days or weeks.

7. Integrate

Export to HubSpot, Salesforce or your outreach tool. Keep your existing outreach stack  just feed it better leads and converting messaging.

Scientific signals that reveal buyer intent.

Every prospect leaves a scientific footprint - publications, patents, grants, trials, news, website. We connect it all so you can find who's active, qualify fit with AI, and reach out at exactly the right moment.
150K+ labs profiled by their science.
No other sales tool comes close.

Key use cases

  • Spot research groups with recent relevant grants and publications - the strongest signal they have budget and need
  • Identify academic labs and core facilities using specific techniques or equipment relevant to your products (e.g., HPLC, single-cell sequencing)
  • Assess customer fit and get a tailored cold email for 2,000 research groups in a few clicks.
  • Get reports on labs that are the best-fit, with clarification why and a tailored email for each.
  • Filter by city, country, or US State for territory-based sales planning
  • Get weekly alerts on new labs with a relevant new grant, paper, trial, patent or research program.

Sources

150K+ university group websites, manually curated. Mission, ongoing research, PIs.
Linked to publications, patents, trials, projects, THE rankings. Contact info.
Qualify and get tailored outreach for researchers by their recent relevant grants, publications, trials, patents - or their current focus. 

Coming soon: Find any company contact by life science specific functions, titles and seniority.

Key use cases

  • Identify PIs with newly funded projects & recent publications in your target area - they have budget authority and purchasing needs.
  • Evaluate customer fit and get tailored emails for a lead list of 2,000 relevant researchers at once.
  • Pinpoint the most relevant researchers within an institution or city you're visiting.
  • Find any company contact by life science specific functions, titles and seniority.
  • Export & contact leads with validated emails.

Sources

Worldwide author, publication, patent, trial, project databases. University websites. ORCID. LinkedIn.
Enriched with h-index, i10-index, affiliations, collaborators, email, LinkedIn, awards...
19K preclinical biotechs profiled by their science. Let AI find the ones that need your services - and get the right contacts.

Key use cases

  • Find and prioritize early-stage startups entering a stage where they need CRO or CDMO support.
  • Bulk-assess conference attendee companies by scientific fit, and get tailored outreach drafts.
  • Get alerts on new startups with new VC funding, grants, trials, patents or news announcements.
  • Pinpoint the exact contact you need in each company - with biopharma-specific function filters.
  • Export & contact with verified emails and LinkedIn .

Sources

Company websites, 21K+ incubator portfolios, 17K+ investor portfolios, 5K+ spinoffs, cluster directories, web, social media, government documents...
Enriched with searchable website content, news, patents, clinical trials, projects, publications, latest investment, investors, stage, type/sector...
Linked to any company contact, leadership, advisors, founders... (coming soon)

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Find & get alerts on new projects matching your offer & get tailored outrreach - at scale.

Key use cases

  • From 50,000 preclinical or IND enabling study projects to 165 by biotechs last year - in 3 clicks.
  • Use AI to qualify 2000 new projects and get tailored email sequences for each.
  • Discover which groups or startups just got major funding on your topic, in a city or territory of interest.
  • Filter by funder (NIH, NSF, Horizon Europe, specific countries), topic, amount, start/end date, and organization type to find labs or startups with active budget in your space.
  • Export the PIs and participants of relevant funded projects - with verified emails & tailored emails - to contact the people leading the research.
  • Set up alerts on new grants in your technology area - reach out when budget is available.

Sources

US (NIH, NSF), Europe (EU, UKRI,  German DFG, Swiss NSF, Swedish RC, French ANR), Japan (translated KAKEN, AMED) and The Wellcome Trust.
Linked to researchers, research groups, universities and companies.
Find PIs and companies worldwide by how the trials they run match your solutions.

Key use cases

  • Identify & get alerts on biotech startups starting phase 1 clinical trials
  • Filter and prioritize by location, drug class, active comparator, company size, trial status & more.
  • Map all relevant trials & players for your market intelligence.
  • Find investigators running trials who may benefit from your innovative diagnostics, biomarkers, wearables or device.
  • Landscape hotspots for best-fit with your solutions.

Sources

ClinicalTrials.gov + 19 WHO registries: US, EU, China, India, Japan, Korea, Australia + 12 more
Linked to investigators, research groups, universities, startups, pharma, phase, status, timing, diseases, drugs, interventions, trial setup & more.
The prospecting layer PubMed was never built to be. Turn publication signals into pipeline.

Key use cases

  • Find (last) authors who just published with specific techniques or equipment relevant to your products
  • AI bulk analysis of clinical study publications to extract outcome scores, trial phase, and next-step plans for CRO/CDMO prospecting
  • AI-analyze hundreds of publications to qualify leads at scale
  • Personalize outreach with science that matters to the prospect - for 2000 publications at once.
  • Identify rising research areas and time your market entry

Sources

PubMed, PubMed Central, Crossref, ORCID, preprints, DOAJ, 2M+ conference proceedings
Find companies by what they're protecting - not what they're announcing. Patent filings reveal intent competitors can't see.

Key use cases

  • Spot companies with new IP that signals outsourcing needs
  • Find stealth-mode startups with just IP, no press coverage
  • AI-analyze patents at scale to prioritize the best-fit leads and get tailored outreach.
  • Track competitor IP to differentiate your pitch
  • Get alerts on new patent filings in your target space

Sources

US, European, International, Japanese patent offices, since 2005 (more upon request).
Linked to inventors, assignees, groups.
AI-extractable claims, novelty, full-texts.
Funding rounds, partnerships, results, key hires - the triggers that time your outreach

Key use cases

  • Earliest signal on deals, funding, and clinical results
  • Monitor competitive activity by company or therapeutic area
  • Daily email digests on your watchlist
  • Combine news with scientific data for trajectory analysis
  • Spot negative signals before they spread

Sources

60K+ news sources, updated every 6 hours, AI-annotated with subjects and organizations.
Linked to companies.
AI annotations: Partnership, M&A, Funding, Regulatory, Clinical Results & More.

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How to assess Customer Fit - at scale

Enter your offers and score any startup, lab or researcher on their specific stage and fit with your offers, plus get a tailored draft email. For 100s at once.

Full Demo for Commercial teams

Watch a full demo walking you through key use cases for a BD at a CRO or CDMO.

How to find researchers in academia and industry

Learn how to find relevant researchers active on your topic, from academia to biotech and healthtech startups, to large pharma.

Frequently asked questions.

Can I get a tailored demo with my own search topic and use cases?

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Absolutely. We can have a first exploratory live demo - and if interested, our founder can provide deeper tailored guidance to fully understand the limits of what is (not) possible, as well as answer any questions you may have.

What kind of support do I get?

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Every team gets direct access to our founding team, including our Founder/CEO Arne, during onboarding and beyond. We map your use cases, Arne guides you in adopting the best possible workflows, proactively updates you on new relevant improvements, and provides you with ongoing support and guidance whenever you need it. This isn't a self-serve tool with a help center - it's a partnership. Arne loves to help you out, figure out solutions and workarounds, as well as lead the engineering team to innovate and improve the platform to your benefit. So the more feedback, the better for everyone!

Can I try AcademicLabs for free?

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Yes. You can fully search the platform and use AI to evaluate experts, labs companies or research data. With 500 AI credits you can create a report on top 25 profiles or analyze 500 publications, patents, projects, trials or news articles for free. Start your free trial here (https://app.academiclabs.com/signup?coupon=2-DAY-TRIAL). Book a demo (see below) to get tailored guidance.

How is AcademicLabs priced?

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Our mission is to democratize access to sophisticated, actionable R&D intelligence. Therefore, our all-in-one platform is priced lower than most incumbent point solutions. And the smaller your organization, the lower your annual subscription fee. For SMEs, we offer full company licenses so anyone in your team can benefit from data-driven R&D intelligence to advance the company. For large companies, we offer tiered pricing based on number of users and modules. For academics, we have special plans for research groups, AI powerusers, academic researchers and students. Every subscription includes AI capabilities and AI credits - with more available for power users. Book a demo to get a quote for your team.

Do you cover early-stage and preclinical companies?

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Yes - this is our core strength. We mapped 19,000 preclinical therapeutic biotech companies! We identify and track emerging startups and for example added over 5,000 university spinoffs, 10,000 small HealthTech companies, 21,000 incubator residents or alumni, and 17,000 startups who raised funding. For each preclinical company, we link to their funded projects, publications, patents, news, company webpages and will soon show their preclinical assets.

Does AcademicLabs cover only academic labs and academic researchers - or also companies? 

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No - we used to, but in recent 4 years we built - in words of customers who switched or trialed solutions - the most powerful and comprehensive life science company intelligence solution. AcademicLabs goes (1) deeper in mapping early-startups than pipeline databases, (2) goes beyond just funding by in-depth linking all public R&D activities, (3) is going the extra mile by analyzing company website content and classifying companies with AI, (4) uniquely connects company leadership, advisors and researchers with their in-depth scientific profiles, and (5) now enabling to find any company contact by a life sciences-focused function, functional area and function title classification, plus valid emails. So yes, it's time to change our brand name :)

How is this different from pipeline databases like GlobalData, Pharmaprojects or Cortellis?

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Pipeline databases focus on clinical-stage assets. AcademicLabs focuses on the full spectrum - from a very early-stage funded academic project to a Phase 4 trial - connected to the researchers, companies, and IP behind it. We show you what's emerging, not just what's in the pipeline. While AcademicLabs does not yet provide structured asset pipelines, you can in 1 click see all drugs and companies with an ongoing phase 2 trial for a specific indication. Even more, we are about to publicly release Asset Intelligence with preclinical to clinical assets across all therapeutic areas within a couple of months! It is currently available for select customers - reach out to info@academiclabs.com to learn more.

How is AcademicLabs different from other scientific lead gen solutions like Zymewire or Scileads?

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AcademicLabs is built specifically for life science commercial teams who need to prospect on science. Where most lead gen platforms give you keyword-matched researcher lists with metrics or company lists filtered by funding, headcount, stage or location, AcademicLabs lets you find and qualify prospects based on the specific details of what they're actually working on: their recent publications, patents, funded projects, clinical trials, news, and website content - all connected in 360° profiles with AI to digest all relevant data for you. What makes AcademicLabs unique: Scientific depth as a prospecting layer. Originally, AcademicLabs has been built to cater to pharma-grade R&D intelligence, providing depth, coverage and AI ccapabilities unparallelled in the market. Every company, lab, and researcher profile links to their underlying science. You can search by any topic, disease, TA, modality, technique, or specific research focus - and AI reads all of it to score customer fit, explain why a lead is relevant, and draft tailored outreach referencing their actual work. Coverage from labs to researchers and R&D companies. AcademicLabs is the only platform that also profiles 150K+ research groups - the academic entities that need and buy solutions. With 22M researchers and 500k R&D companies (half in life sciences) you find any company and researcher that matters. Early-stage startup visibility. We track 19,000+ preclinical biotech startups, 5,000+ university spinoffs, 10,000 HealthTech startups, and 21,000+ incubator alumni - many of which haven't yet appeared in other databases. AI-powered at scale. Bulk-assess 1,000+ prospects, score scientific fit, and generate personalized outreach - in minutes, not weeks. The result: higher-quality leads, more relevant outreach, and better reply rates - because your message connects to the prospect's science, not just their job title.

How is AcademicLabs different from GlobalData for commercial prospecting?

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GlobalData is a strong market research and pipeline intelligence platform - excellent for understanding clinical-stage assets and pharma market trends. AcademicLabs complements that by covering a different part of the market and serving a different workflow. Where AcademicLabs adds unique value: (1) Earlier-stage coverage: AcademicLabs tracks the full spectrum from newly funded academic projects and preclinical startups to late-stage trials - connected to the researchers, labs, and companies behind them. If your team sells into the early-stage, preclinical, or academic market, this is where most of your addressable market lives. AcademicLabs provides unparallelled coverage of preclinical startups and signals for science-based prospecting. (2) Built for prospecting: AcademicLabs includes AI-powered customer fit scoring, tailored outreach generation, verified email contacts, and CRM-ready exports - designed to move from "Let's see who we can find" to "Tailored emails going out to action to best-fit prospects" in minutes. (3) Research groups and researchers: AcademicLabs profiles 150K+ academic labs and 22M researchers alongside 500K+ companies - giving you access to the academic buyers, PIs, and decision-makers that company-focused platforms don't cover. (4) Science-based search: Find prospects by their publications, patents, funded projects, or website content - not just by industry classification or pipeline stage. Many of our customers use AcademicLabs alongside GlobalData or other market intelligence tools - AcademicLabs handles the prospecting and outreach workflow, while market research tools provide the macro view.'

How is AcademicLabs different from PubMed or Google Scholar?

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PubMed and Google Scholar are publication search engines. AcademicLabs is also a publication search engine (integrating PubMed and much more), yet it goes much much further. It provides more filters to cut through the noise, instant trends, and connects publications to researchers, groups, universities and companies to find who's doing the most relevant research and assess their expertise or collaboration-fit in a single click. AcademicLabs AI also enables you to extract structured insights from up to 2,000 publications in just 2 minutes. You go from searching publications for hours or days to taking action in minutes. And of course, beyond publications, in one integrated search you find the relevant newly funded projects, patents, clinical trials, news, assets (soon), companies, research groups and researchers.

Can AcademicLabs handle custom projects leveraging all this data?

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Yes. Beyond the platform, we regularly run tailored projects - in-depth competitive landscaping, custom asset intelligence gathering, scale compound FTO screening combining AcademicLabs capabilities with external data and LLMs, prepare crowdsourcing campaigns, university output reporting, APIs for university out-licensing market intel, APIs and custom work for consultants and large pharma... Just send us an email via info@academiclabs.com and our CEO is happy to explore options together.

Does AcademicLabs provide API access?

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Yes, we also offer API access to our research data, our unique 360° profiles and our AI processing capabilities. You can build on top of all this, connect to your internal systems, or combine it with LLMs for advanced workflows. If interested to explore options, please reach out to info@academiclabs.com.

What does 'AI-powered' actually mean here?

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Our AI (GPT5.4) reads and analyzes the actual retrieved underlying data - publications, patents, trial records, grant descriptions, company websites, news articles. Every answer links back to its source and shows the sentence it used to make verification very easy. The prompts and workflows are built to prevent hallucinations, no black boxes.

Can I evaluate hundreds of profiles or companies at once?

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Yes. One option is for our AI to analyze up to 2,000 researcher or research group profiles or 1,000 companies - analysing dozens of relevant recent documents for each -against your custom criteria in a few clicks producing scored, profile assessments with evidence. A second option allows to analyze up to 50 groups, researchers or companies and get a tailored report - you can set your own instructions.

Can I generate personalized outreach at scale?

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Yes. AI reads each prospect's science - or each project, publication, patent, trial, news article... - and drafts tailored email sequences and LinkedIn messages. From 1 to 1,000 in minutes. Import in your CRM or outreach solution. This enables to send extremely tailored outreach at scale to generate more high-quality sales pipeline.

Can I use AcademicLabs to prepare for conferences like BioEurope or CPHI?

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Yes, search attendee company names, filter, AI-score, and generate tailored partnering messages in hours instead of weeks.

Who are your typical customers?

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External Innovation, Scouting, Intelligence, BD and R&D teams at pharma and large biotech; Leadership, BD and scientists in biotech startups; Analysts at life science investors and venture studios; and 1-man to analysts at the largest consulting firms; Academic researchers; and Lead Gen, Business Development and Marketing teams at CROs, CDMOs and specialized lab instruments for prospecting.

Can I export results?

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Yes. Search results and AI analyses can be exported to Excel and csv, including custom columns from AI analysis. You can also export contacts with emailsave searches, bookmark results, create alerts, and share bookmarks and profiles with your team.

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Schedule a personalized demo and discover how you can unlock hypertargeted prospecting at scale.

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