Clustermarket to raise £2.5M in a round backed by Forward Partners, 24 Haymarket and angel investors

Clustermarket, a London, UK-based SAAS-enabled marketplace for labs and equipment, announced the completion of a fundraising round of £2.5M ($3.5M).

The money was raised from investors led by 24 Haymarket, joined by Forward Partners and angel investors Jonathan Milner and Bruce Berkeley.

Clustermarket, founded in 2015 by Johannes Solzbach, Niklas Friedberg and Tobias Wingbergmühle, is developing what it calls an operating system for scientists.

The software is a cloud-based lab management solution that helps organizations manage resources and activities throughout the facility, provides a clear overview of scientific instruments, lab bookings, and technical service orders, and makes it easier for teams to communicate with each other.

The platform provides access to 70,000 scientific instruments, including PCR machines and centrifuges, and 60,000 scientists, enabling organizations to take full advantage of their existing resources by providing access to lab instruments and technical services. Customers include Illumina, Artios Pharma, Tessa Therapeutics, Evonetix, and MIT, Stanford, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Imperial College London, Cambridge and Oxford