22 Life Science Marketplaces to Try in 2025
A life sciences marketplace is an online platform that operates with a "many-to-many" business logic, hosting multiple suppliers and buyers interacting via various e-commerce tools available as part of the website's functionality.
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Why are marketplaces valuable? Buyers can quickly compare and select superior offerings without having to research multiple websites or browse online for price comparisons or product specifications. Furthermore, marketplaces bring increased transparency, trust, and standardization to the procurement process.
On the other hand, suppliers can access a more targeted audience directed to their product or service pages. In fact, a well-represented company profile with a detailed catalog can be a powerful lead magnet for potential customers.
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Both buyers and suppliers greatly benefit when a marketplace takes on operational activities, such as bidding, quoting, invoicing, consulting, and basic customer support.
Typically, marketplaces offer catalog search capabilities, options to request quotes and place orders online, as well as payment options to complete a purchase. Sometimes, marketplaces utilize various rating or verification algorithms to ensure website users—suppliers and buyers alike—are reliable business partners.
Some modern marketplaces also include more sophisticated components, like community-building capabilities, artificial intelligence-based recommendation systems, or advanced integration APIs to connect with other types of software, such as spend-management systems.
Life Science Marketplaces
The pharmaceutical and biotech B2B sector has been slow to adopt advanced e-commerce workflows compared to other consumer industries, struggling with an outdated supply chain.
However, e-commerce is currently a growing trend in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries, with several notable marketplaces available across various product and service categories.
Related: "How E-commerce Reshapes Pharmaceutical R&D Market"
It's crucial to understand that the inherently more complex nature of scientific products, compared to everyday items, necessitates more advanced tools and a more sophisticated user experience in life sciences marketplaces. Scientists require more information than what's readily available on product packaging; nomenclature often varies between manufacturers, making it difficult to compare products directly, and selecting the wrong product can lead to flawed data and poor or non-reproducible results.
Let's explore some of the life sciences marketplaces in pharma and biotech, and how they address the industry's unique challenges. These marketplaces have been illustratively categorized by specialization:
- Life sciences marketplaces for various research products (consumables, reagents, research materials)
- Life sciences product search & comparison engines
- Life sciences R&D outsourcing services
- Life sciences marketplaces for R&D crowdsourcing (open innovation challenges)
- Life sciences marketplaces for hiring talent
- Biospecimens procurement and health data
- Fine chemicals procurement (building blocks, screening compounds, intermediates)
Life Sciences Marketplaces for Various Research Products (consumables, reagents, research materials)
Zageno
Established in 2015, Zageno is an online marketplace with access to 40 million products from 5,300 suppliers. The platform lets users search, compare, and order through an AI-powered platform with transparent pricing. The system integrates directly with major ERP and accounting tools, automating the entire procurement process from requisition to delivery.
Beyond purchasing, Zageno provides real-time spend analytics and customizable approval workflows. Its goal is to make lab management more efficient by cutting out repetitive procurement tasks, reportedly reducing operational costs by 20–40%.
Through partnership with Thomas Scientific Zageno has developed a Scientific Score, an algorithm based on millions of scientific publications, to objectively compare lab products beyond basic specifications. This score simplifies decision-making, ensuring researchers select optimal tools for reliable, reproducible results while reducing procurement time and cost.
Zageno partnered with a biotech incubator Hatch.Bio Labs in January 2025 to streamline lab supply procurement for biotech startups. The next month, the marketplace announced a partnership with Fraxion. The collaboration aims to integrate Fraxion’s procure-to-pay automation with ZAGENO’s AI-powered marketplace through PunchOut.
Quartzy
Quartzy is a lab management and procurement platform that digitises inventory tracking, ordering, and workflow management. It replaces spreadsheets, email chains, and other ad hoc tools with a single system. The platform supports multiple lab procurement aspects - from inventory tracking to purchase requests and supplier management, helping users save time, reduce costs, and avoid errors. Quartzy is reportedly used by more than 10,000 organizations and carries brands like MilliporeSigma, New England BioLabs, Qiagen, Bio-Techne etc.
Quartzy’s financial support from investors equals $22.2M and was received in 3 funding rounds.
Quartzy extended its partnership with the University of Virginia in March 2025, providing three additional years of free subscriptions to its Inventory Management System for all university labs.
Biohippo
Biohippo is an online marketplace and data platform for life science products, aimed at simplifying how researchers find and purchase lab materials. The catalog of biological resources includes primary & secondary antibodies, enzymes and their inhibitors/activators, proteins and peptides, assay kits, cell culture reagents, viruses, vectors, biochemicals, and lab equipment. The site functions as both a storefront and an informatics resource.
Established in 2017 and based in Rockville, Maryland, Biohippo operates with a relatively small team of up to 10 employees.
In 2024, Biohippo announced partnerships with LipExoGen and ProFoldin to enhance its biotech research tools and expand its life sciences offerings. Additionally, Biohippo continued its collaboration with Cytion to streamline U.S. distribution and reduce lead times for cell line deliveries.
Prendio
Prendio is a cloud-based procurement platform built for life science companies. It manages the full procure-to-pay (P2P) process—from purchase requests to order tracking, payments, and ERP integration.The platform includes supplier punchouts, ERP integrations (notably with NetSuite), paperless three-way matching, and robust reporting tools that track spending and performance.
Clients using Prendio form a close-knit community, and when someone orders specific products through the Prendio software, they are automatically added to a shared catalog visible to all users. Since its inception in 2015, the company asserts that it has saved its clients $47M and 356,000 hours.
In January, 2025, Prendio together with their partner BioProcure announced a strategic partnership with Cambridge Innovation Center to support the growth of early- and mid-stage biotechnology companies. Later, Prendio-BioProcure has launched new generative AI, analytics, and workflow automation tools. The update introduces real-time analytics, AI-driven automation, and an expanded CRO Discovery Tool.
Lab Spend
Lab Spend is a lab operations and procurement platform that manages the full cycle of lab supplies—from ordering and approval to inventory tracking and cost analysis. It offers a centralized dashboard where researchers can request items, track orders, and monitor spending by grant or project. The system includes tools for inventory management, SDS tracking, role-based permissions, and automated notifications.
Lab Spend includes price search and spend analytics tools that flag overpayments, optimize budgets, and give labs clearer insight into their purchasing. The platform is free to use.
Labviva
Labviva is an AI-driven procurement and inventory management platform built for the life sciences industry. It connects researchers, lab operations, and purchasing teams through a unified system that integrates directly with enterprise procurement software.
Labviva Purchasing Platform allows scientists search and order reagents, antibodies, and chemicals whereas procurement teams manage contracts and supplier networks. Labviva claims customers save around 20% costs in the first year due to improved price transparency and competitive supplier access. Its Inventory Management System automates stock control and forecasting, reducing sourcing and restocking costs by up to 41%. Labviva also provides a Dashboard & Analytics module that tracks spend organization-wide and supports sustainability and supplier diversity goals.
Labviva secured $25M in Series B in January 2025, bringing the total funding to $55M. In June, the company announced the expansion of its executive leadership team. In May, Labviva announced its global expansion with the opening of an international headquarters in London and the appointment of Dr. Carlo Iannicola as a general manager.
Labviva launched a couple of programs in 2025. In September, the company started its Smart Lab of the Future Tour, an event-based global initiative showcasing how AI-driven procurement is transforming life sciences research. In October, Labviva established the Smart Suppliers of the Future program to help life sciences suppliers expand digitally. The initiative supports full catalog digitalization and real-time supplier engagement, driving the “Amazonification” of life sciences procurement.
Comparison engines
This category includes services, which are not "classical" marketplaces per se, but they gather and structure information about products and services, in some cases using artificial intelligence (AI)-based data scraping and mining, serving the purpose of classical marketplaces: effectively matching buyers and sellers.
Bioz (AI-driven search engine)
Bioz is an AI-powered search engine for scientific experimentation. It aggregates data from 21 million paywalled articles, 16 million open access articles and other science sources to generate evidence-based recommendations for over 300 million products from 50,000 suppliers. Using natural language processing, machine learning, and generative AI, Bioz extracts and structures information providing data-driven insights to plan better experiments and accelerate discovery. 7 US patents have been issued for Bioz's technology stack.
A major part of Bioz’s ecosystem is its partnership program for scientific suppliers. Through Bioz Badges and Bioz Content Hub, vendors can display verified scientific citations and product mentions directly on their websites. The Bioz Badge shows real-time evidence—such as the number of publications citing a given reagent or tool—helping scientists assess reliability and performance before purchase. The Content Hub serves as a centralized page where suppliers can showcase all their products, citations, and related research.
In 2024, Bioz partnered with Teledyne LABS, EpiCypher, Innovative Research, Randox Laboratories and Boston BioProducts to integrate Bioz Badges onto their product pages, displaying real-time citation data and enhancing evidence-based decision-making for researchers using these companies' products. The same agreement followed in 2025 with Oxcryo, SOPHiA GENETICS, Alomone Labs, Golden West Labs, LICORbio, SEAL Analytical and Neutec Group.
Biocompare
Biocompare is a life sciences product discovery platform that helps researchers identify, compare, and evaluate lab products and services. With a database of more than 8 million products, it functions as a centralized resource where scientists can find tools for their experiments, including antibodies, assay kits, sequencing platforms, and imaging systems. The site also features user reviews, product demos, technical articles, and webinars, making it both a directory and an educational resource for lab professionals.
Biocompare introduced LifeSciAI in April 2024, an LLM/genAI-based assistant to deliver context-aware recommendations stemming from Biocompare’s proprietary product and literature database. LifeSciAI helps users find suitable products, compare specifications, and identify compatible alternatives based on experimental conditions described in scientific papers. The tool is free to use and regularly updated to reflect the latest research and product data, positioning Biocompare as both a procurement guide and AI-driven advisory tool for life scientists worldwide. In October 2024, Biocompare released a documentary titled Technologies Transforming Precision Medicine, highlighting innovations that are reshaping personalized healthcare.
Life Sciences R&D Outsourcing Services
Science Exchange
Science Exchange is an outsourced R&D platform that connects life science organizations with a network of 3,800+ suppliers which offer >7,000 research services and products. It integrates supplier discovery, contracting, project management, payments, and compliance into a unified workflow.
The system eliminates the need for individual CDAs, MSAs, and MTAs by using a single master contract which allows users to start projects quickly while maintaining full regulatory and data protection compliance. Automated workflows streamline project intake, communication, and financial reconciliation. By integrating with existing procurement and finance systems, Science Exchange helps R&D organizations accelerate timelines and ensure quality across external collaborations.
Science Exchange launched its Clinical Development Solution in January 2025. Built on the company’s supplier orchestration software, the solution addresses the growing complexity of Functional Service Provider (FSP) and Full-Service Outsourcing (FSO) models by centralizing contracting, budgeting, and communication workflows. In March 2025, Science Exchange acquired HappiLabs, a Chicago-based company that provides virtual lab management and procurement support for life science organizations.
Scientist.com
Scientist.com is a digital platform that manages sourcing of biotech research services and products. Originally built as an online marketplace for scientific outsourcing, it has expanded into a full-scale procurement orchestration system. Its core product, Procurement CoPilot, uses generative AI to automate and guide purchasing workflows, connecting scientists to over 6,000 vetted suppliers. These suppliers provide a thousand service categories and millions of research products. The platform standardizes statements of work, automates supplier selection, and integrates with enterprise resource planning systems.
Beyond automation, Scientist.com acts as an infrastructure layer for supplier management, compliance, and quality control. It provides a single legal framework and billing process across all vendors, consolidating operations that are typically fragmented across departments. The company also supports users with sourcing specialists and PhD-level experts who help configure workflows and navigate complex project requests.
Scientist.com launched Clinical Labs Navigator in April 2025, a new digital solution designed to modernize clinical trial sourcing and management. The platform, later enriched with a clinical trial analytics tool Trial Insights enhances collaboration between life science organizations and CROs, offering tools for budget digitization, cost modeling, audit compliance, and advanced analytics. In June, Scientist.com expanded its partnership with Bayer, signing a multi-year extension that designates the company’s procurement-orchestration platform as Bayer’s preferred global channel for sourcing external research services. In August, the platform announced that its President and Chief Operating Officer, Dr. Dan Kagan, has been named among The Top 25 BioTech and Life Sciences Executives of 2025 by The Healthcare Technology Report.
Genohub
Genohub is a Texas-based niche life sciences marketplace that was created in 2013 specifically for researchers in need of next-gen sequencing services. It provides a flexible way of procuring and managing sequencing services, bioinformatics services, and optical genome mapping services. The marketplace supports automated matching and pricing functionality to streamline the operational part of work for both vendors and buyers. Researchers can search for providers and services using a variety of metrics. Complete e-commerce functionality is supported with the ability of ordering, payment and data delivery. Each Genohub project includes free data storage and transfer features: users get unlimited storage for all project data for three months, fast and secure data transfer, and a private project bucket protected by unique access keys for controlled, confidential access.
Genohub introduced updates to its platform in August 2025 with the launch of Service Orders and a redesigned project dashboard. Each project can now include multiple Service Orders, each with its own status, timeline, and delivery date, enabling clearer tracking and greater flexibility. New tools include options to pause work, assign internal IDs, and update shipment and delivery statuses.
Cromatic
Cromatic is a life science outsourcing platform that connects biotech and pharma companies with the right CROs and CDMOs. Its flagship product, Sourcerer, automates the vendor selection process—users upload project details, receive curated vendor matches, and rely on Cromatic’s team to manage introductions, negotiations, and contracting.
The platform maintains a database of over 4,500 service providers across 500+ R&D services. Cromatic emphasizes cost and time savings, claiming users can save up to 30% per project and cut weeks off procurement timelines. In November 2023, the company secured $5.3M in an oversubscribed seed funding round.
R&D Crowdsourcing (open innovation challenges)
Innocentive (Was acquired by Wazoku Crowd)
Innocentive is an open innovation marketplace connecting companies — seekers — with a wide network of scientific or engineering professionals — solvers. Seekers can publish offers to solve a particular research problem for a fixed cash award — so-called “open innovation challenges”, while solvers can provide their offers to solve the problem. The platform has all the legal documents in place to make sure any intellectual property or confidentiality matters are in check. The solvers' network counted more than 700,000 specialists. Among the seekers who placed challenges on Innocentive are Novartis, UAE-based Technology Innovation Institute and Exxon Mobil.
Acquired by Wazoku in 2020 and renamed Wazoku Crowd in 2022, the company has now reinstated the InnoCentive name in 2025, returning to its original identity. Over its 25-year history, InnoCentive has raised more than $30M, delivered over 200,000 innovations, solved 2,500 challenges, and awarded $60M in prizes.
Wazoku partnered with Nordic Tech Week 2025 to launch the inaugural Nordic Tech Week Awards, powered by Innocentive. The awards honored leading innovators, investors, startups, and ecosystem enablers across the Nordics, with winners announced in Stockholm, September 15–19, 2025.
Life Sciences Marketplaces for Hiring Talent
Clora
Clora is a life sciences staffing platform that connects pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device companies with independent experts through an algorithm-driven matching process. User companies submit project details, and Clora’s technology filters a network of candidates by expertise, therapeutic area, and availability, outputting up to three candidates for a job execution within a week. The platform claims its staffing approach enables recruiting experts with 15+ years of experience versus 3–6 years in case of traditional ways, and achieving full placements in about seven days. It supports roles across the entire product lifecycle, including regulatory, clinical, QA, and data functions. Posting projects is free, and payment occurs only upon a successful match.
Clora’s network is composed of life science specialists from companies like Merck, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Novartis, and the FDA.
Kolabtree
Kolabtree is an online platform that connects companies and researchers with freelance scientists and technical experts for project-based work. It has a network of more than 20,000 specialists from over 170 countries, covering fields like biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and data science. Users can post projects, review proposals, and collaborate with vetted professionals on tasks such as medical writing, data analysis, and regulatory or statistical consulting. The platform supports confidential collaboration through NDAs and secure workspaces, with payments tied to completed milestones.
Clients include organizations such as Moderna, Biogen, and NASA, which use Kolabtree to access specialized expertise without permanent hiring.
Life Sciences Marketplaces for Biospecimens and Research Data
iSpecimen
iSpecimen is an online marketplace that links biomedical researchers with hospitals, labs, and biobanks to source human biospecimens. It provides access to a large inventory of tissues, biofluids, stem and immune cells, and DNA/RNA-sequenced cancer samples, available from both stored collections and prospective donors. Researchers can search by disease type, sample characteristics, and donor attributes, while providers can supply and manage their available materials. The platform’s goal is to simplify and standardize specimen procurement, addressing common bottlenecks in research caused by limited sample access, inconsistent quality, and fragmented sourcing across institutions.
In January 2025, iSpecimen secured suppliers for human metapneumovirus (hMPV) specimens amid growing concern over a potential COVID-like outbreak in China. In July, iSpecimen announced a $1.75M private placement, issuing 1.56 million shares at $1.122 each.
Labtoo
Labtoo is a French company that offers sourcing biological samples and experimental research services. It coordinates the sourcing of human tissues, fluids, and other biospecimens through its network of biobanks, hospitals, and specialized suppliers—ensuring compliance with ethical and legal standards. Beyond samples, Labtoo arranges customized R&D services, including in vitro, in vivo, and ex vivo testing, pharmacology studies, analytical chemistry, bioinformatics analysis and others.
The company’s model combines project management, regulatory oversight, and access to a scientific network. Currently Labtoo’s network spans more than 500 service providers in France and Europe.
Labtoo was included in the 2025 Growth Champions list by the french magazine Les Echos, and took the first place in Chemistry, Pharmaceuticals and Cosmetics sector.
HealthVerity Marketplace
HealthVerity Marketplace is a healthcare and consumer data marketplace that allows life sciences, government, and insurance organizations to discover, assemble, and license real-world healthcare data from verified sources. It provides access to over 75 unique datasets covering 340+ million de-identified patients and 200+ billion transactions across claims, pharmacy, lab, electronic health records, and social determinants of health. Users can search for datasets, build custom patient cohorts, choose pricing models, and receive HIPAA-compliant, research-ready data through a single contract. It integrates with HealthVerity’s taXonomy clinical claims dataset, allowing open and closed claims data to be layered with Marketplace assets for more interoperable patient journeys.
HealthVerity has integrated OneMedNet’s Imaging Real-World Data (iRWD) into its Marketplace in April 2025, expanding access to imaging from 1,400+ healthcare systems and 31 million patients. HealthVerity announced in September 2025 that its Marketplace has reached a major milestone with 100 peer-reviewed publications powered by its Verified real-world data ecosystem.
Vivli
Vivli is a nonprofit organization that operates a data-sharing and analytics platform focused on individual participant-level data (IPD) from completed clinical trials. Its platform includes a searchable repository of trial metadata, tools for requesting and aggregating datasets, and a secure cloud-based research environment equipped with analytical resources. Originating from a project by The Multi-Regional Clinical Trials Center of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard, Vivli was created to promote transparency and access to clinical trial data worldwide.
Vivli has named its 2025 Ambassadors in June, representing leading institutions including the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Flinders University, University of Glasgow, University Hospital Bonn, Cardiocentro Ticino, and Baptist Health South Florida. In October 2025 Vivli released platform version 3.8, adding a workflow for public disclosures, an enquiries feature for study questions (including unavailable ones), an improved research environment display, and downloadable search results as .csv files.
Fine Chemicals (building blocks, screening compounds, intermediates)
Chemspace
Chemspace is a global platform for small molecule and biologics discovery, procurement, and research support. It operates as both a chemical marketplace and a discovery-focused contract research organization (CRO), offering access to over 18 billion small molecules and over 700,000 biologics. The company provides integrated services spanning early-stage hit discovery to preclinical development, supported by computational chemistry and AI-driven tools.
Key offerings include Purchasing SaaS for streamlined compound procurement (via custom platforms, punchout integration, or API access), compound sets for screening, fragment-based drug discovery, DNA-encoded libraries, and PROTAC research, as well as make-on-demand chemical spaces like the Enamine REAL and Freedom Space collections. Chemspace’s discovery services combine large-scale virtual screening, computational modeling, and lab validation to identify quality hits efficiently.
In February 2025, Chemspace, Enamine, and PharmAI GmbH launched a collaboration to accelerate AI-driven theranostic drug discovery. Additionally, in June, Chemspace partnered with QDX to integrate its virtual compound library into the AI-driven compchem Rush platform and with AsedaSciences to make the synthesizable compound library accessible through the 3RnD visualization tool.
eMolecules
eMolecules is a digital marketplace and logistics platform designed for chemists to source, purchase, and manage specialty chemicals and biological reagents for drug discovery. It offers access to over 83 million part numbers, including building blocks, screening compounds and pre-plated sets. The platform emphasizes speed and reliability—most in-stock compounds ship within two days—and integrates with major eProcurement systems like SAP Ariba, Oracle, and JAGGAER.
Built on a network of over 210 suppliers, eMolecules ensures compound purity, catalog accuracy, and compliance with logistics and import regulations. In addition to procurement, it offers services such as compound reformatting, storage, and custom synthesis.
In October 2025 eMolecules earned the EcoVadis Gold Medal for Sustainability 2025, ranking among the top 5% of companies in the Warehousing and Storage sector. Advancing from a Bronze rating in 2024, the award recognizes eMolecules’ progress in environmental impact, sustainable procurement, and responsible operations.
Molport
Molport is an online marketplace for chemical compounds. It aggregates inventory from 84 verified suppliers, offering access to 5.3 million in-stock screening compounds, 872,000 building blocks, and 20 curated compound libraries. Users can search by name, structure, or chemical identifiers and order directly through the platform or via integrated procurement systems like SAP Ariba, Jaggaer, and Coupa.
Molport handles fulfillment, order tracking, and consolidated global shipping, ensuring compounds arrive quickly and efficiently. Additional services include reformatting, lab support, and data access via API or KNIME nodes. The company regularly updates its database and features curated selections such as new, drug-like, fragment, and diversity compound libraries.
Topic: Next-Gen Tools
