Bioz
Bioz operates an AI search engine for scientific experimentation that mines 35 million peer-reviewed articles to deliver evidence-based product recommendations to 15+ million researchers, and supplies Bioz Badges, Content Hubs, and Bioz Intelligence analytics to 50,000+ life science tool vendors globally.
- Company typePrivate
- Founded2013
- HeadquartersPalo Alto, United States
- Headcount11–50
- GTM typeB2B
- OfferingSoftware
What Bioz does
Bioz, Inc. is a Palo Alto-based AI company founded in 2013 by Daniel Levitt and Dr. Karin Lachmi that operates Bioz.com, an AI search engine purpose-built for life science experimentation. The platform applies proprietary NLP, machine learning, and generative AI/LLM technology to mine and structure more than 35 million peer-reviewed scientific articles, producing over 300 million evidence-based product recommendations covering 300 million products from 50,000+ suppliers, 7 billion entities, 5 billion protocols, 3,000+ techniques, and 16 million images, with daily corpus updates and a claimed 99% product-to-citation accuracy. Its patented Bioz Stars (and vStars) rating system applies a ZERO-BIAS 100-point scoring algorithm used by more than 15 million researchers across 17,000+ universities and companies in 196 countries.
Bioz monetizes through four interlocking revenue streams: a self-serve Bioz Pro individual subscription at $99/month or $999/year (free for academic users), a multi-year Bioz Enterprise tier for R&D and procurement teams, rate-card-based supplier SaaS licenses for its tiered Bioz Badges (Original, Image, Prime, Pro) and Bioz Content Hub widgets sold via Account Executives, and bespoke Bioz Intelligence analytics engagements for market and product positioning. Distribution is hybrid: a PLG self-serve motion on bioz.com and iOS/Android apps for researchers, AE-led enterprise sales for suppliers, a Partner Program launched June 2017 for life science tool vendors, an API channel used by integrators such as Chemyx, and embedded widget distribution across thousands of supplier websites globally. Flagship customers include Thermo Fisher Scientific, Hamilton Company, Oxford Instruments, Hitachi High-Tech, SOPHiA GENETICS, Waters | Wyatt Technology, Avanti Polar Lipids, LICORbio, Multi Sciences, NEB, Covaris, Skalar Analytical, and GERSTEL, with content reach spanning English, Chinese, and German localizations.
The company is private (no public ticker, no disclosed funding outside of self-reported rounds), remains at 11-50 employees, and has raised approximately $24.7M across 12 disclosed rounds from 2014 through 2024, with its largest single round being $14.48M in November 2019. Bioz has been recognized as a 2017 Gartner Cool Vendor in R&D for Manufacturers and a 2017 Frost & Sullivan Innovation Award winner, runs the annual Bioz Stars Awards program (2019, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025), and has continued product investment including the February 2026 launch of Bioz Shield, a visual validation marker for supplier websites.
Bioz firmographics
Firmographics- Name
- Bioz
- Legal name
- Bioz, Inc.
- Website
- https://bioz.com
- Company type
- Private
- Founded year
- 2013
- Operating status
- Operating
- Headcount range
- 11–50 employees
- Short description
- Bioz operates an AI search engine for scientific experimentation that mines 35 million peer-reviewed articles to deliver evidence-based product recommendations to 15+ million researchers, and supplies Bioz Badges, Content Hubs, and Bioz Intelligence analytics to 50,000+ life science tool vendors globally.
- Ownership category
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Bioz industry classification
Industry- Product category
- Scientific Research Analytics Software
- NAICS
- Scientific Research and Development Services (5417), Research and Development in Biotechnology (except Nanobiotechnology) (541714)
- SIC
- Services-Commercial Physical & Biological Research (8731)
- akta.pro primary industry
- Knowledge Management & Scientific Collaboration / Literature Intelligence (HLAGAJAN)
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Where Bioz is headquartered
LocationHeadquarters
- HQ city
- Palo Alto
- HQ country
- United States
- HQ region
- North America
Offices1 record
Markets served
Bioz business model
Business model- GTM type
- B2B
- Offering type
- Software
- Cost components
- Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Operations
Revenue model
- Bioz Pro Individual Subscription: Self-serve subscription for individuals and companies accessing the Bioz.com search engine with advanced filtering and article images. Priced at $99/month or $999/year; recurring.
- Bioz Enterprise Subscription: Enterprise tier for R&D groups, biopharma companies, and procurement teams requiring dedicated server, advanced filtering, image access, and procurement integration. Pricing not publicly disclosed.
- Bioz Badges and Content Hub Licenses for Suppliers: Tiered supplier-side SaaS widget licensing (Original / Image / Prime / Pro Badges plus Content Hub) sold via Account Executive-led demo calls at rate-card-based pricing. Revenue is recurring and tied to deployment of widgets on supplier websites.
- Bioz Intelligence Bespoke Data Analytics Reports: Custom, project-based analytics engagements covering market positioning, product positioning, and bespoke analyses; sold to leading scientific tool suppliers. Functions as a professional services / managed analytics revenue line.
Pricing tiers
| Model | Billing | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Subscription | Monthly | Bioz Pro for individuals and companies — access to the Bioz search engine with advanced filtering and article images. |
| Other | Multi-year contract | Bioz Enterprise for enterprises — dedicated server, advanced filtering, image access, and procurement integration. |
| Other | Annual | Bioz Badges tiered widget suite (Original / Image / Prime / Pro / Content Hub) for supplier websites. |
| Other | Pay-as-you-go | Bioz Intelligence bespoke data analytics reports. |
Go-to-market motion5 records
Distribution channels7 records
Marketing channels9 records
Bioz product offering
Product offeringCore offering
Bioz operates an AI-powered scientific experimentation search engine (Bioz.com) that uses proprietary NLP, Machine Learning, and Generative AI to mine 35 million peer-reviewed articles and deliver evidence-based product, technique, and protocol recommendations to life science researchers. For scientific product suppliers, Bioz sells embeddable citation widgets (Bioz Badges in Original, Image, Prime, and Pro tiers) and customizable publication knowledgebases (Bioz Content Hubs), together with a patented 100-point Bioz Stars objective product rating system and bespoke Bioz Intelligence data analytics reports that help suppliers showcase peer-reviewed validation, increase on-site engagement, and convert researcher traffic.
Product overview
Bioz operates a single integrated platform — the Bioz AI search engine for scientific experimentation (Bioz.com) — combined with a modular suite of supplier-facing widgets and analytics products that are deployed on or sold to life science product suppliers. The platform centers on Bioz.com (the core AI search engine for scientists) and the patented Bioz Stars / Bioz vStars objective rating system, which are extended outward to suppliers via Bioz Badges (Original, Image, Prime, and Pro tiers), Bioz Content Hubs, and the new Bioz Shield. Bioz Intelligence (Data Analytics) layers bespoke citation-based market and product analytics on top, while Bioz Pro and Bioz Enterprise are paid subscription tiers for individual researchers and enterprise R&D / procurement teams. Together these products turn 35 million peer-reviewed publications into evidence-based product recommendations, objective ratings, supplier website engagement widgets, and market intelligence.
Differentiator
Problem solved
Functional benefit
Brands
- Bioz Badges: AI-powered widgets (including Original, Image, Prime, and Pro tiers) that showcase product citations and images on supplier websites.
- Bioz Content Hub
- Bioz Stars
- Bioz vStars
- Bioz Pro
- Bioz Enterprise
- Bioz Intelligence
- Bioz Shield
Products and services
- Bioz.com AI Search Engine for Scientific Experimentation The core Bioz platform: an AI search engine that uses proprietary NLP, Machine Learning, and Generative AI to mine 35 million peer-reviewed articles and deliver over 300 million evidence-based product, technique, and protocol recommendations to life science researchers in biopharma and academia across 196 countries. Used by more than 15 million researchers from 17,000+ universities and companies.
- Bioz Badges (Original, Image, Prime, Pro tiers) Embeddable AI-powered citation widgets installed on scientific product supplier websites to showcase peer-reviewed citations, article images, and figure legends; tiers add progressively filter/sort/share/export, image gallery, full-text search, and map features, with daily-updated citations. Sold via Account Executive-led demo calls at rate-card-based pricing.
- Bioz Content Hub A fully customizable publication knowledgebase that consolidates all peer-reviewed citations for a supplier's product portfolio within their own website, providing filter, sort, share, export, full-text search, and multilingual capabilities to centralize and continuously update validated scientific literature for downstream customers.
- Bioz Stars and Bioz vStars Rating System Patented, zero-bias 100-point objective rating system for scientific research products (Bioz Stars), with Bioz vStars providing a parallel objective rating for products not yet mentioned in peer-reviewed articles based on a supplier's citation track record. Scored via a multi-parameter mathematical model incorporating Product Mentions Index, Article Recency, Journal Impact Factor, Citation Strength, Efficacy Factor, Search Frequency, and other parameters.
- Bioz Intelligence (Bespoke Data Analytics Reports) Custom citation-based data analytics reports across more than a billion scientific data points, covering Market Positioning, Product Positioning/Prominence, and bespoke deep-dive analyses for leading scientific tool suppliers. Sold as project-based professional services engagements.
- Bioz Shield Visual validation marker for supplier websites that signals products and services backed by peer-reviewed publication data; powered by Bioz's proprietary AI engine that continuously analyzes millions of scientific sources to provide evidence-based credibility indicators.
- Bioz Mobile App (iOS and Android) Native iOS and Android applications that bring the Bioz.com AI search engine, Bioz Stars ratings, and evidence-based product recommendations to mobile life science researchers.
Quantifiable outcome
- Hamilton Company saw a significant increase in time spent on its website after embedding Bioz Badges, contributing to a Horizon Interactive Award for web excellence.
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Companies that use Bioz
Customer profileNamed customers30 records
Segments6 records
Ideal customer profiles4 records
Bioz technology and API
TechnologyTechnology focussed Yes
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AI capability12 records
Feature9 records
Bioz partnerships and signals
Strategic signalPartnerships
41 partnerships are on record, tiered mid-tier supplier partner, flagship long-term partner, flagship enterprise partner, flagship global partner, flagship api integration partner, flagship enterprise deployment partner, flagship global deployment partner, flagship strategic partner, flagship 10-year strategic partner, mid-tier strategic partner, flagship strategic collaboration, mid-tier long-term partner, flagship scientific advisor, flagship ai advisor, flagship technology advisor, flagship industry advisor and flagship accelerator partner.
- Frontier Specialty Chemicalsmid-tier supplier partnerFrontier Specialty Chemicals embedded 100 Bioz Badges on its product webpages. Visitors can explore peer-reviewed publications featuring Frontier products and filter by technique, review contextual excerpts, and access figures and full-text articles without leaving the site. Early engagement data shows a notable increase in time spent on product webpages.
- Teknovaflagship long-term partnerExpanded collaboration: Teknova implemented a fully customized Bioz Content Hub, consolidating peer-reviewed publications into a centralized, searchable digital environment that integrates directly within Teknova's website and navigation. Built on a long-standing collaboration; eliminates manual publication tracking and ensures citation data remains continuously updated.
- Skalar Analyticalmid-tier supplier partnerSkalar Analytical integrated Bioz Badges across its website to automatically surface ~10,000 peer-reviewed citations for its flagship product line, with access to the Bioz analytics dashboard for publication trends and customer engagement insight.
- Hamilton Companyflagship enterprise partnerHamilton Company embedded Bioz Badges across its product webpages, contributing to a Horizon Interactive Award and significant increases in time-on-site. Bioz insights are also used internally to identify new applications for underutilized products and to support social media content strategy.
- GERSTELflagship global partnerGERSTEL integrated Bioz Badges across its regional websites (English, Chinese, German) to surface legacy and new peer-reviewed references; exportable structured citation data supports marketing, analytics, and customer engagement. GERSTEL is part of the Velaris family, backed by Battery Ventures.
- Rad Source Technologiesmid-tier supplier partnerRad Source Technologies embedded Bioz Badges on product webpages to showcase peer-reviewed scientific validation for its X-ray irradiation systems, supporting credibility, engagement, and product launches.
- Vilbermid-tier supplier partnerVilber integrated customized Bioz Badges across its digital platforms, automating literature discovery, improving website engagement, supporting its distributor network, and providing analytics to track publication trends and user engagement.
- Linseis Thermal Analysismid-tier supplier partnerLinseis Thermal Analysis embedded Bioz Badges on product webpages to surface peer-reviewed publications referencing Linseis instruments, with access to Bioz's analytics dashboard to support U.S. market expansion.
- LabDietmid-tier supplier partnerLabDiet integrated Bioz Badges and a Bioz Content Hub across its website to automate citation infrastructure, eliminating manual tracking and improving digital transparency for researchers exploring validated literature tied to specific diet formulations.
- ADVACAMmid-tier supplier partnerADVACAM implemented Bioz Prime Badges across its website for radiation imaging technologies, enhancing presentation of peer-reviewed validation, increasing user engagement, and improving SEO/GEO performance.
- Chemyxflagship api integration partnerChemyx integrated Bioz Badges via the Bioz API to enhance SEO, GEO, and structured citation visibility, improving product credibility and discoverability across search engines and AI-driven research workflows.
- Pickering Laboratoriesmid-tier supplier partnerPickering Laboratories integrated Bioz Badges across its websites to enable researchers to access validated scientific evidence across legacy and new product applications, with automated, always-current citation visibility.
- Oxford Instrumentsflagship enterprise deployment partnerOxford Instruments deployed Bioz Pro Badges to surface thousands of peer-reviewed publications across its technology portfolio.
- Multi Sciencesflagship global deployment partnerMulti Sciences deployed 1,000 Bioz Badges on product webpages to enhance transparency and access to scientific validation for researchers worldwide; one of Bioz's largest single-customer roll-outs.
- Equitech-Biomid-tier supplier partnerEquitech-Bio embedded Bioz Badges on its digital catalogs to provide real-time, peer-reviewed citation evidence for serum proteins and reagents, extending global reach and showcasing citation engagement.
- LICORbioflagship long-term partnerContinued collaboration: LICORbio integrated Bioz Prime Badges and a Bioz Content Hub into its digital platforms for fluorescence imaging technologies, improving customer engagement, global research visibility, and sales effectiveness.
- Neutec Groupmid-tier supplier partnerNeutec Group introduced Bioz Badges to guide buyers from product discovery to product validation, surfacing peer-reviewed evidence for its product portfolio.
- SOPHiA GENETICSflagship strategic partnerCustom Bioz integration highlighting over 1,500 peer-reviewed citations supporting SOPHiA GENETICS' Alamut™ Visual Plus, enhancing scientific transparency in genomics and clinical decision support.
- Thermo Fisher Scientificflagship 10-year strategic partnerLong-running 'Decade of AI-Powered Innovation' case-study partnership; Thermo Fisher Scientific has used Bioz Badges, Content Hub, and Bioz Intelligence to power data-driven research workflows for many years.
- Resonac America (Shodex)mid-tier supplier partnerPartnered to enable researchers to leverage citations to choose Resonac America (Shodex) analytical liquid chromatography products.
- Spirochromemid-tier strategic partnerBioz and Spirochrome forged a partnership to enhance research discovery with advanced scientific video content integration alongside Bioz Badges.
- Hitachi High-Techflagship strategic partnerPartnership enabling real-time access to scientific citation data for Hitachi High-Tech's product portfolio.
- InvivoGenmid-tier strategic partnerStrategic alliance to accelerate research discovery and efficiency by surfacing peer-reviewed citations on InvivoGen's website.
- Waters | Wyatt Technologyflagship strategic collaborationStrategic collaboration with Waters | Wyatt Technology to promote scientific discovery by leveraging peer-reviewed publications on Wyatt's analytical instrument product pages.
- PEAK Scientificmid-tier long-term partnerPEAK Scientific and Bioz extended their partnership, delivering data-driven validation to scientists via Bioz Badges on PEAK's gas generator product pages.
- Cyanagenmid-tier long-term partnerCyanagen strengthened a long-standing partnership with Bioz, driving high product engagement through AI-powered Badges.
- Cole Parmerflagship strategic partnerBioz partnered with Cole Parmer to present evidence-based recommendations that empower scientific workflows.
- PromoCellmid-tier long-term partnerBioz partnered with PromoCell to empower life science researchers with evidence-based recommendations; partnership expanded in October 2025 to enhance scientific insights.
- Avanti Polar Lipidsflagship long-term partnerBioz partnered with Avanti Polar Lipids to bring evidence-based recommendations to scientists, surfacing peer-reviewed citations across Avanti's lipid product portfolio.
- Jena Bioscienceflagship long-term partnerBioz and Jena Bioscience expanded their partnership to accelerate life science research and drug discovery by surfacing peer-reviewed citations.
- Covarisflagship long-term partnerBioz and Covaris expanded their partnership to accelerate the pace of life science research and drug discovery by surfacing peer-reviewed citations for Covaris products.
- New England Biolabs (NEB)flagship long-term partnerBioz partnered with NEB to empower life science researchers with evidence-based product recommendations and citation-backed validation on the NEB website, including a 2020 COVID-19 research expansion.
- Worthington Biochemicalmid-tier supplier partnerBioz partnered with Worthington Biochemical to unlock the value of scientific data and catalyze research through peer-reviewed citation surfacing.
- DNASTARmid-tier supplier partnerDNASTAR and Bioz partnered to increase researcher confidence using structured insights from peer-reviewed scientific articles.
- Prof. Roger Kornberg (Stanford) — Bioz Advisory Boardflagship scientific advisorNobel Laureate in Chemistry serving on the Bioz Advisory Board; lends scientific and strategic credibility to the Bioz AI engine.
- Prof. Ada Yonath — Bioz Advisory Boardflagship scientific advisorNobel Laureate serving on the Bioz Advisory Board.
- Prof. Michael Levitt — Bioz Advisory Boardflagship scientific advisorNobel Laureate serving on the Bioz Advisory Board.
- Dr. Alon Halevy (Amazon AWS) — Bioz Advisory Boardflagship ai advisorSenior Principal Applied Scientist at Amazon AWS and Presidential Medal recipient, serving on the Bioz Advisory Board.
- David Vaskevitch (Former CTO, Microsoft) — Bioz Advisory Boardflagship technology advisorFormer CTO of Microsoft serving on the Bioz Advisory Board.
- Gregg Brandyberry (Former CPO, GSK) — Bioz Advisory Boardflagship industry advisorFormer Vice President / Chief Procurement Officer of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), serving on the Bioz Strategic Advisory Board.
- StartX (Stanford-affiliated accelerator)flagship accelerator partnerBioz is described as a StartX accelerator company; StartX is referenced as part of Bioz's origin story in the 2017 Gartner Cool Vendor press release.
Scale indicators12 records
Recent moves6 records
Expansion highlights6 records
Bioz competitors and assessment
Company assessmentDirect peers
- Scite.ai: Scite is an AI-powered platform that classifies scientific citations as supporting, contrasting, or mentioning, surfacing structured evidence across peer-reviewed publications. Like Bioz, it mines peer-reviewed literature and serves both researchers and enterprise/institutional customers with citation analytics; both compete in the AI-driven scientific literature intelligence category.
- Semantic Scholar (Allen Institute for AI): Semantic Scholar is a free AI-powered search and discovery tool for scientific papers, built by the Allen Institute for AI. It overlaps directly with Bioz.com's AI search engine for scientific experimentation, both mining and structuring peer-reviewed publications to help researchers find and evaluate scientific evidence.
- Dimensions (Digital Science): Dimensions is a research analytics platform linking publications, grants, patents, datasets, and clinical trials, sold to enterprises, institutions, and funders. Like Bioz, it provides structured citation and research analytics over a large scholarly corpus and serves institutional R&D and procurement customers.
- Altmetric (Digital Science): Altmetric tracks attention and engagement around scholarly outputs, including citations, mentions, and social media. Both Altmetric and Bioz convert unstructured scientific publication signals into structured, scored outputs and serve institutional and supplier-side customers with research analytics.
Emerging players
- Elicit: Elicit is an AI research assistant that finds, summarizes, and extracts data from peer-reviewed papers using large language models. It overlaps with Bioz's AI-driven literature mining and recommendation capabilities, but is primarily focused on researcher-side workflows rather than supplier-side citation widgets.
- Consensus: Consensus is an AI-powered search engine that extracts answers directly from peer-reviewed scientific studies. It competes with Bioz.com for researcher mindshare in AI-driven scientific literature search and synthesis, with a freemium consumer/prosumer go-to-market motion.
- Connected Papers: Connected Papers is a visual tool that creates a graph of scientific papers related to a given field based on co-citation analysis. It is comparable to Bioz as an AI-assisted literature discovery tool for researchers, though narrower in scope and lacking supplier-facing widgets.
- Sparrho: Sparrho curates and recommends scientific content using a combination of AI and expert curation for both researchers and industry. It is comparable to Bioz in serving dual audiences (researchers and life science suppliers) with AI-mediated scientific content discovery, though at smaller scale.
- The Lens: The Lens provides free and open patent and scholarly search, with structured citation, patent, and biological sequence data. Like Bioz, it operates over a large scholarly and patent corpus and offers citation-based analytics, though it lacks Bioz's supplier-side widget monetization.
- Sparqline / SciScore: PeerCube-style scientific marketing and citation platforms targeting life science suppliers, providing research-backed marketing analytics. Comparable to Bioz's supplier solutions (Badges, Content Hub, Intelligence) in serving scientific product vendors with citation-driven engagement analytics.
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Funding rounds12 records
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Frequently asked questions about Bioz
What does Bioz do?
Bioz operates an AI-powered scientific experimentation search engine (Bioz.com) that uses proprietary NLP, Machine Learning, and Generative AI to mine 35 million peer-reviewed articles and deliver evidence-based product, technique, and protocol recommendations to life science researchers. For scientific product suppliers, Bioz sells embeddable citation widgets (Bioz Badges in Original, Image, Prime, and Pro tiers) and customizable publication knowledgebases (Bioz Content Hubs), together with a patented 100-point Bioz Stars objective product rating system and bespoke Bioz Intelligence data analytics reports that help suppliers showcase peer-reviewed validation, increase on-site engagement, and convert researcher traffic.
Is Bioz a public or private company?
Bioz is a private company. It is classified as venture growth investor backed and is currently operating.
When was Bioz founded?
Bioz was founded in 2013. It employs 11 to 50 people.
Where is Bioz based?
Bioz is headquartered in Palo Alto, United States, in the North America region.
How does Bioz make money?
Four revenue lines are on record. Bioz Pro Individual Subscription is the primary driver. The others are bioz Enterprise Subscription, bioz Badges and Content Hub Licenses for Suppliers and bioz Intelligence Bespoke Data Analytics Reports.
Who are Bioz's main competitors?
Direct peers on record are Scite.ai, Semantic Scholar (Allen Institute for AI), Dimensions (Digital Science) and Altmetric (Digital Science). Emerging players are Elicit, Consensus, Connected Papers, Sparrho, The Lens and Sparqline / SciScore.
Does Bioz have an API?
Yes. Bioz offers a partner-facing API that enables third-party scientific product suppliers to embed Bioz Badges and surface peer-reviewed citation data on their own websites. The API is referenced in customer collaborations (e.g., Chemyx integrating Bioz Badges via the Bioz API to enhance SEO, GEO, and structured citation visibility). Bioz's Terms of Service also reference rate-limit constraints (no more than 2 inquiries per second from a single IP, no more than 2 simultaneous inquiries from a single User), indicating the API is a managed, partner-accessible endpoint. No public documentation URL, SDK listing, or auth method is published in the source material.
What industry is Bioz in?
Bioz's product category is Scientific Research Analytics Software. Its primary akta.pro industry code is HLAGAJAN, Knowledge Management & Scientific Collaboration / Literature Intelligence. Its NAICS code is 5417 and its SIC code is 8731.