Bioimager Inc.

What Bioimager Inc. does

Bioimager Inc. is a privately held Canadian microscopy specialist headquartered at 43 Pearson Ave., Richmond Hill, Ontario, founded in 2011 by Dr. Younes Leysi to commercialize live cell and in vivo imaging technology developed during his PhD. The company designs, sources, and distributes microscopy-based imaging solutions, including biological, fluorescence, metallurgical, polarizing, stereo, confocal, and lightsheet microscopes, alongside accessories such as microscopy cameras (24-557MP), digital slide scanners, gel imagers, cell counters, and live cell imaging chambers. Its IncuScope incubator microscope series and Celloger wireless live cell imaging systems are signature product families addressing time-lapse imaging inside biological hoods and incubators.

Bioimager operates a hybrid distribution model combining a global e-commerce storefront with consultation-driven direct sales (phone, email, live chat), OEM/white-label manufacturing, and after-sales repair, installation, and training. Pricing is positioned 2-5x below Zeiss, Leica, Olympus, and Nikon for comparable optical performance and up to 5-10x lower for budget lines, leveraging manufacturing relationships in China and Taiwan combined with German or Japanese optical components. The company also offers free sample imaging at its facility, unlimited technical support, and laser cutting, engraving, marking, and 3D printing services as adjacent revenue streams.

The customer base spans 100+ institutions across North America, Europe, the Middle East, South America, and Asia, including MIT, Harvard Medical School, Stanford, Northwestern, McGill, NIH, NASA, NIST, MD Anderson, Max Planck Institute, EMBL, King Faisal Specialist Hospital, and Merck KGaA / VWR International, serving education, government, healthcare, pharmaceutical, and industrial/ manufacturing end markets. The company has no disclosed institutional funding, no parent company, no subsidiaries, and remains founder-led, with an 11-50 employee footprint and a multi-channel social media presence supporting demand generation.

Name

Bioimager Inc.

Legal name

Bioimager Inc.

Website

https://bioimager.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2011

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Bioimager Inc. is a Canadian microscopy specialist that designs, sources, and distributes custom and standard microscopes, cameras, and imaging accessories at 2-5x lower prices than Zeiss, Leica, Olympus, and Nikon, serving universities, research hospitals, government labs, and industrial customers across 16+ countries.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Scientific Microscopy Equipment

NAICS

Navigational, Measuring, Electromedical, and Control Instruments Manufacturing (33451)

SIC

Optical Instruments & Lenses (3827)

akta.pro primary industry

Microscopy, Imaging & Flow Cytometry Instruments (HLAGAIAE)

akta.pro secondary industry

Cell Culture & Bioprocess Lab Equipment (Bioreactors, Single-Use Systems, Controllers) (HLAGAIAG)

Keywords

• Microscopy imaging systems
• Custom microscope design
• Fluorescence microscopy
• Live cell imaging
• OEM microscope manufacturing

Headquarters

HQ city

Vaughan

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Microscopy Hardware Sales: Sale of custom and standard microscopes including fluorescence, biological, metallurgical, polarizing, stereo, confocal, and lightsheet microscopes. Products sold as complete units or components/modules.
2. Microscopy Cameras and Scanners: Sale of microscopy cameras (CMOS, sCMOS, CCD, cooled CCD, USB 3.0, WiFi, hyperspectral, SWIR) and digital scanners (slide scanners, gel imagers, 3D scanners, plate readers).
3. Custom Design and OEM Services: Custom-design microscopy systems for specific research or industrial applications, including on-site installation and training.
4. Repair and Maintenance: Ongoing maintenance, repair services, and technical support for microscopy equipment.
5. Sample Imaging Services: Free of charge imaging of customer samples at their facility.
6. Laser Cutting and Engraving Services: Custom laser cutting, engraving, marking on various materials and 3D printing services including custom job, prototyping, sampling on plastics, wood, papers, fabric, aluminum, stainless steel.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

Bioimager Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells microscopy-based imaging solutions including custom and standard microscopes (biological, fluorescence, metallurgical, polarizing, stereo, confocal, lightsheet), digital scanners, and scientific microscopy cameras for life sciences and industrial applications. The company offers OEM manufacturing, custom design, and repair/maintenance services globally.

Product overview

Bioimager Inc. is a microscopy-based imaging solutions company specializing in turn-key and highly efficient products for life sciences and industrial applications. The product portfolio centers around custom and standard microscopes including biological, fluorescence, confocal, lightsheet, metallurgical, polarizing, and stereo microscopes, with specialized sub-categories for inverted, upright, and incubator configurations. Supporting the microscope core are accessories including microscopy cameras (24-557MP), digital slide scanners, gel imagers, C-mount adapters, live cell imaging chambers, and phase contrast/darkfield accessories. The company also offers OEM manufacturing services, installation, repair, and free sample imaging. The IncuScope incubator microscope series represents a flagship product line for live cell time-lapse imaging. Recent products include AI-enabled slide scanning systems (BioScan-i600A), wireless live cell imaging (Celloger series), and advanced confocal systems (BCF-600, BCF-950). Prices range from budget-friendly options under $1,000 to advanced systems exceeding $45,000. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Custom Microscopes Custom-designed microscopes available in inverted or upright configurations for research, industrial and branding purposes, supporting brightfield, fluorescence, DIC, phase contrast, darkfield, and polarization imaging modes.
• Biological Microscopes Compound microscopes for clinical labs, biological research, veterinary colleges, and biomedical research including upright and inverted configurations with 4x to 10,000x magnification.
• Fluorescence Microscopes Optical microscopes using fluorescence and phosphorescence for biology, cancer research, neuroscience, toxicology, FISH, tissue microarrays and biomedical imaging applications.
• IncuScope Incubator Microscopes

Quantifiable outcome

• 2-5x cost savings compared to major brand names (Zeiss, Leica, Olympus, Nikon)
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers15 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves2 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Keyence: Global leader in industrial/quality-control microscopy and digital imaging (VHX, VHX-E, hyper-magnification). Overlaps with Bioimager's metallurgical, 3D-profiler, and inspection microscopy SKUs, including the BMU960/B3DVM-7500x.
• Thermo Fisher Scientific (Microscopy): Operates the former FEI electron-microscopy line plus EVOS and cell-imaging systems. Comparable via institutional life-science and pharma microscopy buyers - a customer segment Bioimager serves with NIH, MD Anderson, Merck.
• Bruker: High-end fluorescence, confocal, lightsheet and super-resolution microscopy (Vutara, Luxendo, Ultima). Comparable to Bioimager in the lightsheet (BiopenSPIM) and confocal (BCF-950) segments where premium prices dominate.
• Carl Zeiss Microscopy: Premium-tier incumbent whose Axio, LSM confocal and Lightsheet Z.1 systems are exactly the references Bioimager's price-comparison tables are measured against. Overlapping product range across life-science and industrial imaging, but at high price points with full enterprise service.
• Leica Microsystems (Danaher): Premium life-science and industrial microscope incumbent (DMi8, Stellaris confocal, STELLARIS 5). Bioimager explicitly names Leica as one of the four brands it competes against and even sells white-label Leica-bodied scopes.
• Evident (formerly Olympus Scientific Solutions): Inherited Olympus life-science microscope line (BX, CX, IX, FV3000 confocal). Bioimager's website lists Olympus CX33 and BX43 with explicit MSRP-vs-discount comparisons, making Evident a direct premium benchmark.
• Nikon Instruments: Premium microscope and live-cell imaging incumbent (Eclipse Ti2, AX/AX-R confocal, NIS-Elements software). Bioimager explicitly competes with Nikon on price across biological and fluorescence categories.

Emerging players

• Sartorius: Strong presence in live-cell analysis and cell-line development (Incucyte, iQue, CellCelector). Competes with Bioimager's Celloger and IncuScope lines specifically in the incubator live-cell imaging niche.

Direct peers

• AmScope: U.S.-headquartered distributor offering an extremely wide range of compound, stereo, fluorescence, industrial and digital microscopes at price points well below Zeiss/Leica. Competes head-to-head with Bioimager's e-commerce value proposition.
• Motic: China-based microscope manufacturer with strong direct-to-customer global distribution (Moticam cameras, full biological/industrial line). Like Bioimager, Motic competes on cost while offering research-grade capabilities - the most direct head-to-head on custom and OEM scopes.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/bioimager
• YouTubeyoutube.com/@bioimager8752/featured
• Facebookfacebook.com/bioimagerinc
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/bioimager-inc.
• Instagraminstagram.com/bioimager
• Pinterestpinterest.ca/bioimager1

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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