Benchling is a cloud and AI software platform for biotechnology R&D, co-founded by Sajith Wickramasekara and Ashu Singhal to bring scientific data, workflows, collaboration, and automation together in a single environment. Benchling's Twitter Score is 9.3 out of 1000 as of October 2026, ranking #100,619 among 493,668 tracked accounts.
Benchling was launched in 2012 and has since built a platform used across the life-sciences industry for experiment design, structured data capture, and AI-assisted scientific workflows. Its tools are positioned as an end-to-end operating layer for biotech R&D teams, with academic users able to access the platform at no cost. In 2025, Benchling acquired the teams of ReSync Bio and Sphinx Bio to deepen its AI capabilities for scientific workflows.
Benchling has raised successive funding rounds from a broad set of institutional investors. Early backing came from Thrive Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, followed by a Series B led by Benchmark with participation from F-Prime Capital, a Series C led by Menlo Ventures, and a Series D led by Alkeon Capital. A $200 million Series E was led by Sequoia Capital Global Equities in 2021. Later that same year, Benchling raised a $100 million Series F at a reported valuation of $6.1 billion, co-led by Franklin Templeton and Altimeter Capital, per public reporting at the time. Additional backers include Spark Capital, Lux Capital, Lead Edge Capital, Y Combinator Continuity, ICONIQ Partners, Tiger Global, Lone Pine Capital, and Byers Capital.
Benchling has 10,093 followers as of October 2026 on X and has published 5,574 posts. The account has been mentioned by 63 accounts across 198 total mentions.
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The accounts that follow Benchling include 35 founders, 12 angel investors, 3 influencers and 10 VCs. Among them are Roon, Tim Draper, Riva, Josh Wolfe, Him and Adam Draper.