What Quilt Data does

Quilt Data, Inc. is a privately held, San Francisco-based software company (founded 2015, 1-10 employees) that sells an AWS-native scientific data management platform to biotech and pharmaceutical organizations. The platform transforms customers' existing Amazon S3 buckets into searchable, versioned, governed data assets by wrapping raw files, metadata, and lineage into "Quilt Packages" — immutable, cryptographically-versioned units that provide reproducibility and audit-ready history for regulated scientific workflows. The product stack consists of the Quilt Platform (a cloud catalog deployed inside the customer's AWS account using ECS Fargate, RDS, and ALB), a Python SDK for programmatic package management, the Qurator natural-language search interface, and integrations with Benchling (electronic lab notebooks), Nextflow (bioinformatics pipelines), and MCP-compatible AI agents such as Claude and ChatGPT.

Quilt monetizes primarily through recurring subscription licenses for its cloud platform and enterprise deployment, with no publicly disclosed pricing tiers. Its go-to-market combines product-led growth (a self-serve "Try Today" option, free exploration of the Quilt Open Catalog, and POC deployment within roughly one week via CloudFormation) with consultative enterprise field sales aimed at biotech and pharma buyers who require SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA-eligible, GxP-ready, and 21 CFR Part 11 compliance. Distribution runs through AWS Marketplace, the AWS Advanced Technology Partner program, and direct sales; Quilt also maintains a developer-facing Slack community, a technical blog, and comprehensive documentation.

The company has raised approximately $4.18 million across funding rounds from 2016 through 2021, including a $3.5 million round in August 2017 backed by DCVC, Foundation Capital, Social Capital, Vertex Ventures, and others, plus Y Combinator support. It reports 30+ biotech and pharma customers — including Allen Institute, Inari, Flagship Pioneering, Cellarity, Resilience, Tessera, Arbor Biotechnologies, Altos Lab, and Decibel Therapeutics — and cites customer outcomes such as 90% faster data lookup, 3x NGS analysis throughput, and reduction of instrument-to-AI-ready data time from weeks to minutes. The codebase is open-source on GitHub.

Name

Quilt Data

Legal name

Quilt Data, Inc.

Website

https://quiltdata.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Quilt Data provides an AWS-native scientific data management platform for biotech and pharma, transforming existing S3 buckets into versioned, searchable data packages with AI-powered search and GxP-ready compliance for regulated life sciences workflows.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Scientific Data Management Software

NAICS

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (51821), Computer Facilities Management Services (541513), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (518210)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370), Services-Computer Processing & Data Preparation (7374)

akta.pro primary industry

Healthcare Data Integration, ETL/ELT & Pipeline Orchestration (HLACAIAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Data Platform (Unified Data & Analytics) Suites (HDAEABAD), Database Tools & Ecosystem (Replication, Backup/Recovery, HA/DR, Monitoring) (HDAEAAAO)

Keywords

• Scientific data management
• AWS-native data platform
• Life sciences data
• Data version control
• FAIR data governance

Headquarters

HQ city

San Francisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Quilt Platform Subscription: Cloud platform subscription for interacting with, visualizing, searching, and querying Quilt Packages. Hosted in organization's AWS Account. Includes enterprise deployment options with VPC isolation, IAM, SSO, and KMS controls.
2. Enterprise Deployment License: Enterprise deployment into customer AWS account with full stack in private subnets. License validation is the only outbound connection; no data transmitted. Inherits customer VPC, IAM, KMS, and CloudTrail controls.

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Quilt Data provides an AWS-native scientific data management platform that transforms existing S3 buckets into versioned, searchable, governed data assets for life sciences organizations. The platform consolidates raw files, results, and metadata into Quilt Packages — addressable units that bundle data with metadata and an immutable cryptographic version history — and exposes them through a web catalog, an AI-powered natural language search (Qurator), and a Python SDK for programmatic access. Enterprise deployments run inside the customer's own AWS account, with SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA-eligible, GxP-ready, and 21 CFR Part 11 compliance.

Product overview

Quilt Data offers a Scientific Data Management Platform on AWS organized around versioned, context-rich data packages. The portfolio consists of three main components: (1) Quilt Platform (Catalog), a cloud platform deployed in an organization's AWS account for browsing, searching, visualizing, and querying Quilt Packages via a web interface; (2) Quilt Python SDK, a programmatic tool for creating, pushing, installing, and managing Quilt Packages; and (3) Qurator, an AI-powered plain English search feature. The platform also includes ecosystem integrations like Benchling Packager for electronic lab notebooks and Nextflow Plugin for bioinformatics pipelines, plus QuiltSync for desktop synchronization. All data remains in the customer's S3 buckets with full governance and versioning.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Quilt Platform: Cloud platform for interacting with, visualizing, searching and querying Quilt Packages, hosted in an organization's AWS Account.
• Quilt Python SDK
• Qurator
• Quilt Open Catalog

Products and services

• Quilt Data Platform AI-powered scientific data management platform built on AWS that consolidates raw files, results, and metadata into versioned, searchable Quilt Packages for life sciences organizations. Deployed inside the customer's own AWS account with full audit trails and compliance support.
• Quilt Python SDK

Quantifiable outcome

• 90% faster data lookup (days → minutes)
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers14 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

AI capability6 records

Feature10 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Amazon Web Services (AWS)coreTechnology or IntegrationAWS Advanced Technology Partner with deep native integration into AWS. Quilt transforms existing S3 buckets into searchable, versioned data assets. Full deployment inside customer AWS account in private subnets. Only outbound connection is license validation. HIPAA-eligible AWS infrastructure.
• BenchlingcoreTechnology or IntegrationBenchling Packager integration enables packaging electronic lab notebooks from Benchling into Quilt packages for unified data management across scientific workflows.
• NextflowcoreTechnology or IntegrationNextflow Plugin integration enables event-driven packaging from bioinformatics pipeline outputs. Automatically captures pipeline data into versioned, searchable packages.
• Anthropic (Claude)coreTechnology or IntegrationPlatform MCP Server enables connection of Claude and other MCP-compatible AI agents to Quilt data with per-user OAuth authentication. AI models can read, visualize, and build on data.
• OpenAI (ChatGPT)coreTechnology or IntegrationPlatform MCP Server enables connection of ChatGPT and other MCP-compatible AI agents to Quilt data with per-user OAuth authentication for AI-powered scientific data analysis.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves2 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Scitara: Scientific Data Integration Platform (iPaaS for the lab) connecting instruments, software, and data systems across life-sciences organizations. Directly comparable in regulated life-sciences data integration and instrument-to-analytics plumbing.
• Tetra Science: Cloud-native scientific data platform purpose-built for life sciences, focusing on harmonizing R&D data from instruments and lab systems into a governed data lake. Most directly comparable to Quilt in target customer, vertical focus, and data-catalog approach.
• Ganymede: Lab data integration platform that connects scientific instruments, ELNs, and LIMS into structured data pipelines for biotech. Comparable to Quilt in life-sciences focus, ELN/instrument integrations, and emphasis on making wet-lab data machine-readable.

Broad incumbents

• Dotmatics: Scientific R&D informatics platform (acquired by Siemens) covering ELN, LIMS, and data analytics for life sciences. Comparable in serving biotech R&D data-management needs with a broader, more horizontal suite.
• Palantir Foundry: Data integration and ontology platform widely deployed at large pharma and biotech for harmonizing scientific and operational data. Comparable in regulated-data-governance and life-sciences footprint, though broader in scope.
• Databricks: Unified data and AI platform with Unity Catalog and growing life-sciences vertical investments. Competes with Quilt at the data-governance/lineage layer inside the same biotech accounts while serving a much broader enterprise base.
• Revvity Signals (formerly PerkinElmer Informatics): Enterprise scientific data and analytics software for life sciences and applied markets. Comparable in regulated life-sciences data management and analytics, with a much larger installed base and broader portfolio.
• Snowflake: Cloud data platform with a Life Sciences & Healthcare data cloud. Competes with Quilt for the underlying governed data substrate and is increasingly bundling catalog/lineage features relevant to AI-ready scientific data.

Emerging players

• Benchling: Leading life-sciences R&D platform (ELN, registry, molecular biology) that is both a Quilt integration partner and a potential competitor as it expands into downstream data management and analytics.
• Plotly (Dash): Data app and visualization framework used by scientific teams to build interactive dashboards over S3 and warehouse data. Adjacent competitor at the data-visualization/search layer where Quilt's Qurator and catalog UI overlap.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• GitHubgithub.com/quiltdata/quilt
• Xx.com/quiltdata
• Facebookfacebook.com/quiltdata
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/quilt-data

Compliance4 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds6 records

Investors15 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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