Science Exchange

Science Exchange is an award-winning enterprise B2B marketplace platform that is changing the way R&D outsourcing is conducted. Currently implemented at the majority of the top 50 global biopharma organizations, Science Exchange has paved a market leading position, saving thousands of hours for scientists and operations, and millions in cost savings for our customers across the world.

Science Exchange enables scientists to catalyze faster discovery and development by removing barriers from the outsourced R&D workflow. At Science Exchange, we’re passionate about building transformative software solutions that help accelerate discovery and that ultimately improve lives.

The Science Exchange stack of solutions improves R&D speed, innovation, flexibility, and auditability. Our source-to-pay tools boost scientists' productivity by removing administrative tasks and delays associated with sourcing, establishing and managing projects with external service providers.

With our enterprise SaaS-enabled marketplace product, R&D teams can rapidly work with the Science Exchange Contracted™ network of 3,300 CROs, CMOs, and academic labs, without the need for CDAs, MTAs or other time-consuming legal documents. Our clients include some of the world’s largest biopharmas and hundreds of biotechs, who have been increasing productivity through simple and lean outsourcing processes.

Science Exchange was seeded out of Y Combinator in 2011 and has raised nearly $70M from top venture funds including USV, Maverick Capital, and Norwest Venture Partners. Our headquarters are in Palo Alto, California, but we are a truly global company with employees all over the U.S., Europe and Asia/Pacific. Our talented and passionate team includes developers, designers, marketers, and scientists that are charged with bringing intellectual rigor and creativity to every decision we make.