Labforward announced a €3 million Series B extension backed by the Fielmann Family Office

Labforward, a Berlin, Germany-based operator of a connectivity platform for laboratories, announced a funding extension of €3 million ().

The money was raised from the Fielmann Family Office, majority owner of the leading German family business. Existing investor IBB Ventures and other undisclosed business angels from Germany also contributed.

The deal represents an extension to the €5 million round backed by Tecan, 2mag and Peppermint Venture Partners at the begninning of 2021.

With the additional funding, Labforward is going to invest in further expansion of the team and making the fully-digitized laboratory of the future more accessible to organizations that look for smart solutions for their laboratories.

Labforward, led by CEO Simon Bungers, was formed by the merger of labfolder GmbH and cubuslab GmbH in May 2019.

Labfolder was founded by Simon Bungers and biophysicist Florian Hauer (CPO) in 2013, who were later joined by Yannick Skop (COO) and Mario Russo (CTO). Dominic Lütjohann and Julian Lübke, who founded cubuslab GmbH in 2015 joined the Labforward team as co-founders and as leaders of the Laboperator product.

The Labfolder ELN is used by more than 40,000 international scientists and supports laboratory teams to record, share, retrieve and validate data as a team.

The Laboperator platform can remotely control and monitor laboratory devices and equipment as well as execute structured and automated workflows. Data is stored centrally and is always available for data management platforms such as Labfolder or other ELN or LIMS systems.