LabGrid

LabGrid is a cloud-based supply chain logistics and collaboration platform purpose-built for biotech and pharmaceutical laboratories that outsource or distribute research work across multiple external partners. Founded in 2020 and backed by Y Combinator (W20 batch), LabGrid addresses the communication and coordination inefficiencies that arise when scientific teams manage complex multi-vendor experiments — work typically handled through fragmented email chains, spreadsheets, and ad-hoc messaging. The platform serves as a central hub for project tracking, vendor communication, document organization, and turnaround management, enabling scientists to coordinate with internal teams, contract research organizations (CROs), reagent suppliers, and other global stakeholders from a single interface. Its target users are biotech and pharma companies that operate in increasingly virtual or distributed lab models, where coordinated work spans geographies and organizations. LabGrid is particularly suited to high-throughput environments where multiple parallel projects are running simultaneously and errors from miscommunication can be costly. Headquartered in the Berkeley, California area, the company was founded by Kathryn Loving, who brings a background in the pharmaceutical industry. LabGrid participated in Y Combinator's Winter 2020 Demo Day as part of the B2B software cohort.