What Discngine does

Discngine SAS is a privately held, founder-owned French scientific-software company founded in 2004 and headquartered in Paris (79 avenue Ledru-Rollin, 75012). It develops and operates a portfolio of SaaS applications for early-stage drug discovery, spanning cheminformatics, structural bioinformatics, lab informatics, and data science, with deployments serving both small-molecule and biologics R&D programs. The company's core product suite comprises Ideation Analytics (automated SAR reporting, Matched-Molecular Pairs, R-group deconvolution for medicinal chemists), 3dpredict/Ab (ensemble-based antibody developability assessment), 3decision (a collaborative 3D protein-structure repository and analytics platform), Peptide Analytics (automated peptide SAR analysis and reporting), Connector (no-code workflow integration across BIOVIA Pipeline Pilot, LiveDesign, and Spotfire), and Assay (assay data management). All products are hosted on the company's own Discngine Cloud Infrastructure (DCI), and Discngine holds ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification from BSI Group covering SaaS hosting, software development, and customer support.

The company operates a multi-pronged revenue model combining SaaS subscriptions (annual billing, quote-based pricing, free trials available), custom scientific software development services leveraging dual-skilled science-and-IT experts, and managed cloud hosting services that include legacy-tool migration, lift-and-shift deployments, and containerization of BIOVIA Pipeline Pilot in Docker. Its go-to-market is enterprise field sales targeting pharmaceutical, biotechnology, cosmetics, and agroSciences R&D divisions, and the company reports 70+ multi-disciplinary experts serving 70+ customers worldwide, including Sanofi, Roche, Novartis, AstraZeneca, GSK, AbbVie, Bayer, L'Oréal, Syngenta, and Evotec. Distribution is augmented by technology partnerships with Dassault Systèmes BIOVIA, Chemical Computing Group (CCG), TIBCO Spotfire, KNIME, ChemAxon, Schrödinger, and Nanome, plus a Japan-focused channel partnership with MOLSIS Inc. Since its 2004 founding, Discngine has operated without a disclosed parent company or major institutional investor, relying on small public funding rounds in 2017 (€1.3M from Extens Développement e-Santé) and 2018 (€716K from Bpifrance), supplemented by organic cash generation.

Name

Discngine

Legal name

DISCNGINE SAS

Website

https://discngine.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2004

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Discngine is a Paris-based scientific SaaS company, founded in 2004, that builds cheminformatics, structural bioinformatics, and lab-informatics applications for early drug discovery R&D teams in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, cosmetics, and agroSciences enterprises.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Scientific Computing Software for Drug Discovery

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132), Software Publishers (513210), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (51821), Scientific Research and Development Services (5417)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370), Services-Computer Processing & Data Preparation (7374)

akta.pro primary industry

Scientific Data Management & Data Platforms (SDMS/Data Lakehouse for R&D) (HLAGAJAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

AI/ML Platforms for Drug Discovery & Experiment Optimization (HLAGAJAO), Cloud Data Platforms & Analytics Migration (BPAEACAI), Cloud-Native Development (Containers, Kubernetes, Microservices) (BPAEACAD), Cloud-Native Application Development (Containers/Kubernetes/Serverless) (BPAEAFAE)

Keywords

• Drug discovery software
• Cheminformatics solutions
• Structural bioinformatics
• Lab informatics platforms
• Scientific SaaS applications

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. SaaS Software Subscriptions: Subscription-based access to scientific software applications including Ideation Analytics, 3dpredict/Ab, 3decision, Connector, Peptide Analytics, and Assay. Hosted on Discngine Cloud Infrastructure with tiered pricing based on features and usage.
2. Custom Scientific Software Development: Tailored software development services for customer-specific scientific solutions. Includes dual-skilled experts (science and IT) collaborating on custom applications, hosted on Discngine Cloud infrastructure.
3. Cloud Infrastructure Hosting: Managed cloud services for hosting research software applications, including lift-and-shift services for legacy tools, additional HPC resources, and containerization of workloads.
4. Legacy Migration Services: Migration of legacy tools to cloud infrastructure, including dependency resolution and modernization of existing scientific solutions.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Discngine develops and delivers cloud-based scientific SaaS applications and custom software solutions for life sciences R&D, spanning cheminformatics, structural bioinformatics, lab informatics, and data science. Its portfolio supports small-molecule and biologics discovery workflows including SAR reporting, antibody developability assessment, 3D protein structure management, peptide analysis, and cross-application integration, complemented by managed cloud hosting on its proprietary Discngine Cloud Infrastructure.

Product overview

Discngine offers a portfolio of SaaS scientific software solutions for early drug discovery, supporting both small-molecule and biologics R&D. The core product suite includes Ideation Analytics for automated SAR reporting and analysis, 3dpredict/Ab for antibody developability assessment, 3decision for collaborative 3D protein structure management, Peptide Analytics for peptide SAR analysis, Connector for cross-application integration, and Assay for assay data management. These products are complemented by the Discngine Cloud Infrastructure for hosting and deployment, and custom scientific software development services for tailored solutions. The portfolio spans cheminformatics, structural bioinformatics, lab informatics, and data science domains.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Ideation Analytics: Platform for automated Structure-Activity Relationship (SAR) analysis and reporting for small molecules
• 3dpredict/Ab
• 3decision
• Connector
• Assay
• Peptide Analytics
• Discngine Cloud Infrastructure (DCI)

Products and services

• Ideation Analytics Automated Structure-Activity Relationship (SAR) reporting and analysis platform for small-molecule R&D. Features automated SAR reporting, customizable reports, Matched-Molecular Pairs analysis, R-Group deconvolution, and starting compound and scaffold suggestions. Built for medicinal chemists in pharmaceutical, cosmetics, and agrochemical R&D.
• 3dpredict/Ab Ensemble-based antibody structure prediction and developability property assessment platform. Generates ensemble-based structures and properties, profiles and ranks antibodies, screens candidates from low to high throughput, detects liability hot spots and post-translational modifications (PTMs), and produces standardized 2D protein patch maps. Built for antibody discovery experts in biologics R&D.
• 3decision Collaborative 3D protein-structure repository and analytics platform for structural biologists and molecular modelers. Centralizes public and proprietary 3D structures, enables pocket similarity search, protein-ligand interaction analysis, on-the-fly structure superposition, electron density map inspection with annotations, and interactive 3D view sharing via Storyboard.
• Connector Life-science applications integration platform enabling no-code workflows across LiveDesign, PipelinePilot, and Spotfire. Provides automated workflows, data exploration with common tools, secure end-to-end workflow management, and integration with existing discovery toolstacks. Built for data scientists, modellers, and chemists.
• Peptide Analytics Automated peptide structure-activity relationship (SAR) analysis and report generation platform. Provides sequence alignment, SAR clustering and hotspot detection, multi-level visualization from region to monomer to atom level, and interactive report generation for peptide R&D teams.
• Assay Assay data management solution enabling efficient management of screening and assay data for discovery teams, including cloud deployment for digital transformation initiatives at cosmetics and pharmaceutical R&D organizations.
• Discngine Cloud Infrastructure (DCI) Cloud platform managed and maintained by Discngine for hosting research software applications at scale. Provides infrastructure management, application deployment, integrations, user support, high-performance computing resources, and legacy lift-and-shift migration services for research software tools.
• Custom Scientific Software Development Tailored IT solutions development service for small-molecule and biologics experts. Includes customer-specific scientific solutions development by dual-skilled science-and-IT experts, application hosting on Discngine Cloud, legacy tool migration, and cloud environment maintenance.

Quantifiable outcome

• Multi-dimensional SAR analysis time reduced from multiple days to a couple of hours (approximately 80% of use cases)
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers23 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

AI capability3 records

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• MOLSIS Inc.minorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorPartnership for distribution and presence in Japan. MOLSIS Inc. collaborates with Discngine at events such as the CBI Annual Meeting 2026 in Tokyo.
• Dassault Systèmes BIOVIAcoreTechnology or IntegrationBIOVIA Pipeline Pilot is a key scientific backend used extensively in Discngine's development activities. Discngine developed proprietary containerization methods for Pipeline Pilot enabling DevOps practices.
• Chemical Computing Group (CCG)coreTechnology or IntegrationCollaboration through CCG User Group Meetings (UGM) and Conference events. Discngine presents products at CCG events and showcases integration with CCG's computational chemistry solutions.
• BIOVIA (Dassault Systèmes)coreTechnology or IntegrationDeep technical partnership with BIOVIA Pipeline Pilot as a key scientific backend. Discngine provides expertise in containerization and cloud deployment of Pipeline Pilot.
• Spotfire (TIBCO)coreTechnology or IntegrationConnector Components integration with Spotfire for data exploration and visualization workflows. Listed as a core integration capability.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• IDBS (Danaher): Scientific informatics platform (Polar, E-WorkBook) for biopharma R&D, now part of Danaher's Life Sciences segment. Directly comparable to Discngine's lab informatics and Assay offerings with a larger sales footprint.
• Benchling: Cloud-native R&D platform for biotech covering ELN, registration, inventory, and assay data. Competes with Discngine's lab informatics and data management offerings and is rapidly expanding into biologics and structured scientific data.
• ChemAxon: Cheminformatics toolkit and platform provider (JChem, Marvin, Compound Search) widely embedded in pharma R&D. Partners with Discngine for joint webinars and competes for chemistry platform spend in the same customer base.
• Chemical Computing Group (CCG / MOE): Provider of the Molecular Operating Environment (MOE) platform for cheminformatics, molecular modeling, and drug discovery. Listed as a Core integration partner of Discngine and competes head-to-head for medicinal chemistry software budgets.
• Genedata: Biopharma R&D data management and analytics platform (Screener, Expressionist, Biologics) for large pharma. Comparable to Discngine's 3decision and biologics solutions, especially for enterprise-scale data lakehouse use cases.
• OpenEye Scientific (Cadence Design Systems): Molecular modeling and cheminformatics SaaS (OEOmega, Orion, Floe) targeting medicinal chemistry teams in pharma. Highly comparable to Discngine's Ideation Analytics for SAR analysis and small-molecule design workflows.
• Schrödinger: Public computational chemistry and molecular simulation platform serving pharma and materials R&D. Directly comparable to Discngine's computational drug discovery software (Ideation Analytics, 3dpredict/Ab) and competes for the same medicinal chemistry budget at top pharma.
• Dotmatics (Revvity): Scientific R&D informatics platform offering electronic lab notebooks, data management, and discovery workflows for pharma and biotech. Competes with Discngine's Assay and 3decision offerings across enterprise pharma data management and analysis.

Broad incumbents

• BIOVIA (Dassault Systèmes): Broad enterprise scientific software suite from Dassault Systèmes including Pipeline Pilot, Discovery Studio, and BIOVIA Workbook. Listed as a Core partner of Discngine but also competes broadly across the same pharma customer base.
• Certara: Public biosimulation and regulatory science software company serving pharma across discovery, development, and regulatory submission. Overlaps with Discngine on early drug discovery decision-support software and shares pharma enterprise customers.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles9 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors2 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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