GraphPad Software

What GraphPad Software does

GraphPad Software, founded in 1984 and headquartered in La Jolla, California, develops GraphPad Prism, a desktop statistical analysis and graphing application purpose-built for scientific researchers rather than professional statisticians. Prism provides structured data tables, guided statistical analyses (including ANOVA, power and sample size calculations, survival analysis, non-linear regression, and machine learning), and publication-quality graphs that can be exported directly to PowerPoint and other formats. The product is designed for scientists without coding expertise, distinguishing it from general-purpose statistical packages such as R or Python-based tooling. Adjacent products include InStat (basic statistical analysis), StatMate (power and sample size calculations), Prism Cloud (collaboration and project sharing), and QuickCalcs (a free suite of 25+ online statistical calculators used as a top-of-funnel acquisition channel).

GraphPad operates a hybrid go-to-market combining product-led growth (free trial with no credit card required, self-serve e-commerce) with enterprise field sales for pharmaceutical companies, government agencies, and major research institutions requiring site-wide licenses, and academic licensing programs for universities. Pricing tiers include student, professor/course, and enterprise/commercial subscriptions billed annually. Distribution channels include direct download via the GraphPad website, dedicated enterprise sales, a separate GraphPad China portal for the Chinese market, and academic licensing programs. The platform claims 750,000+ scientists across 110 countries, with a customer set spanning Novartis, Sanofi, Merck, CDC, NASA, the University of Oxford, Nestlé, Dow AgroSciences, Afton Chemical, and Pioneer.

The company has been a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dotmatics, a cloud-based scientific R&D data management platform, since its 2022 acquisition, and operates under the "GraphPad by Dotmatics" brand alongside Dotmatics' broader portfolio (Geneious, SnapGene, ProteinMetrics, LabArchives, OMIQ, Luma). Prior to the Dotmatics acquisition, GraphPad received an investment from Insight Venture Management in 2017 and executed acquisitions of Biomatters/Geneious and GSL Biotech/SnapGene in 2019. As of the input period, Prism 11 was the current major version release (2024), and GraphPad maintains integrations with OMIQ, FCS Express, and LabArchives to extend into flow cytometry and electronic lab notebook workflows.

Name

GraphPad Software

Legal name

GraphPad Software

Website

https://graphpad.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1984

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

GraphPad Software develops GraphPad Prism, a desktop statistical analysis and graphing application purpose-built for scientists without coding. Based in La Jolla, the company serves over 750,000 researchers across 110 countries and has been a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dotmatics since 2022.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Scientific statistical analysis software

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Graph Databases (HDAEAAAE)

Keywords

• Scientific statistical software
• Data analysis tools
• Publication-quality graphing
• Research collaboration platform
• Biostatistics software

Headquarters

HQ city

San Diego

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Prism Software Licenses: Annual or perpetual licenses for GraphPad Prism statistical analysis software sold to individual researchers, academic institutions, and commercial organizations. Tiered pricing for students, professors, and enterprise deployments.
2. Enterprise Site Licenses: Organization-wide licensing for pharmaceutical companies, government agencies, and research institutions requiring multiple seats and centralized deployment management.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

GraphPad Software develops and sells GraphPad Prism, a statistical analysis and graphing application purpose-built for scientists. It provides structured data tables, guided statistical analyses (ANOVA, regression, survival, power/sample size, machine learning), publication-quality graphs, and a cloud collaboration platform, sold via annual licenses to individuals, academic institutions, and enterprise customers.

Product overview

GraphPad Software offers a unified product portfolio centered on GraphPad Prism, a statistical analysis and graphing software designed specifically for scientists. The core offering includes Prism for comprehensive statistical analysis, graphing, and visualization; Prism Cloud for collaboration and project sharing; InStat for basic statistical analysis; StatMate for power and sample size calculations; and QuickCalcs as a free online calculator tool. The company is part of the Dotmatics portfolio of scientific R&D software tools, with Prism serving over 750,000 scientists in 110 countries.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Prism: Statistical analysis and graphing software for scientists
• InStat
• StatMate

Products and services

• GraphPad Prism Statistical analysis and graphing software purpose-built for scientists, providing structured data tables, guided analyses (ANOVA, survival analysis, non-linear regression, power and sample size, machine learning), and publication-quality graphics. No coding required; sold as annual licenses to individuals, academics, and enterprises.
• Prism Cloud Cloud-based collaboration platform that lets Prism users share projects, publish work for external review, and consolidate feedback and discussions in one place with secure access controls.
• InStat Statistical software for scientists offering basic statistical analysis capabilities as a simpler alternative or complement to Prism.
• StatMate Standalone software for power analysis and sample size calculations, complementing Prism's statistical workflow.
• QuickCalcs Free online calculators offering 25+ statistical tests for quick calculations, used by thousands of scientists daily as a free acquisition tool for the Prism product.

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 750,000 scientists in 110 countries rely on Prism for their research
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers10 records

Segments3 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 capability2 records

Feature5 records

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• JMP (SAS Institute): JMP is statistical discovery software from SAS that, like GraphPad Prism, targets scientists and engineers with interactive, no-coding statistical analysis and dynamic graphics. It competes head-to-head for the same life-sciences and academic researcher budgets.
• Stata: Stata is a statistical software package widely used by researchers in biostatistics, epidemiology, and social sciences. Like Prism, it sells academic, individual, and site licenses and competes for the same scientific statistical analysis workflows.
• Minitab: Minitab provides statistical analysis software used in quality improvement, Six Sigma, and applied research. It overlaps directly with Prism on guided, no-coding statistics and publication-ready outputs for non-statistician users in research and industry.
• OriginLab (Origin): OriginLab's Origin is scientific graphing and data analysis software used by researchers for publication-quality figures and statistical analysis. It is a close functional analog to Prism's graphing-plus-analysis workflow for academic and industrial scientists.
• TIBCO Statistica: Statistica (formerly StatSoft) is an advanced analytics platform providing statistical analysis, data mining, and visualization. It overlaps with Prism on desktop statistical analysis for research and enterprise users, including life-sciences applications.

Broad incumbents

• IBM SPSS Statistics: SPSS is an established statistical analysis platform with deep penetration in social science, healthcare, and market research. As a broader incumbent it overlaps with Prism on statistical analysis for researchers but is not specialized for life-sciences publication workflows.
• SAS (SAS Institute): SAS is a broad analytics and statistical platform used across pharma, government, and academia. Its statistical and analytics capabilities intersect with Prism's enterprise use cases, particularly in regulated pharma and government deployments.
• MathWorks MATLAB: MATLAB is a scientific computing environment used heavily in engineering and computational science, with Statistics and Machine Learning Toolbox functionality. It competes with Prism for engineering and quantitative researcher budgets in industry and academia.

Emerging players

• R Project (The R Foundation): R is a free, open-source language and environment for statistical computing widely used in academic research and increasingly in industry. It is the most significant free alternative to Prism and is shaping pricing and product decisions across the statistical software category.
• JASP: JASP is a free, open-source statistical analysis tool with a graphical UI emphasizing ease of use, Bayesian methods, and reproducibility. It directly challenges Prism's no-coding, scientist-friendly positioning, particularly in psychology and biomedical academia.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/graphpad
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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A3 records

Investments

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