Lipotype

What Lipotype does

Lipotype GmbH is a privately held German lipidomics service company founded in 2012 and headquartered in Dresden. The company provides outsourced mass spectrometry-based lipid analysis to pharmaceutical, biotechnology, cosmetics, and academic research customers, quantifying 100+ lipid classes and 7,000+ individual lipid species across diverse sample types (cells, tissue, blood, skin). Its core platform is a shotgun lipidomics workflow built on Q Exactive Orbitrap instrumentation (280,000 resolution), with GxP-compliant operations and standardized two-week turnaround. Service delivery combines wet-lab analysis with data visualization and statistical reporting packages designed to support publication-grade research and regulated industry use cases.

The business is a fee-for-service, B2B model executed through a direct e-commerce shop (with pre-configured analysis packages), a consultative sales process for custom projects, and listings on the Scientist.com and ScienceExchange scientific marketplaces. Pricing is quote-based and pay-as-you-go, with no public rate card. Lipotype is led by a three-person managing-director team (Prof. Dr. Kai Simons, CEO; Dr. Oliver Uecke, COO; Dr. Christian Klose, CTO) and has received non-dilutive support from European Union and Free State of Sachsen (Saxony) funding programs. Named customers include a long tail of leading academic institutions (Yale, UCL, KU Leuven, University of Virginia, Friedrich Miescher Institute, DIfE, University of Alberta) and a small set of industrial clients (DSM Skin Biology, Aldeyra Therapeutics). No public revenue, funding rounds, M&A, or external equity ownership are disclosed.

Name

Lipotype

Legal name

Lipotype GmbH

Website

https://lipotype.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2012

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Lipotype is a Dresden-based lipidomics service provider that uses mass spectrometry to quantify 100+ lipid classes and 7,000+ lipid species for pharmaceutical, biotech, cosmetics, and academic research customers worldwide.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Lipidomics Analytical Services

NAICS

Research and Development in Biotechnology (except Nanobiotechnology) (541714)

SIC

Services-Commercial Physical & Biological Research (8731)

akta.pro primary industry

Metabolomics & Lipidomics Services (HLAGANAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

Proteomics & Mass Spectrometry Services (HLAGANAB), Bioanalytical & Biomarker CROs (PK/PD/Immunogenicity) (HLAGAAAD)

Keywords

• Lipidomics services
• Mass spectrometry analysis
• Shotgun lipidomics
• Lipid profiling
• Analytical laboratory services

Headquarters

HQ city

Dresden

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Lipidomics Analysis Services: Lipotype generates revenue by providing lipidomics analysis services to pharmaceutical companies, cosmetics manufacturers, biotechnology firms, and academic researchers. Customers order analysis packages through the company's e-commerce shop, send samples, and receive detailed lipidomics reports. The service includes sample preparation, mass spectrometry analysis, data processing, and statistical reporting.
2. Analysis Packages: Pre-packaged lipidomics analysis offerings available for purchase through the online shop, with various tiers for different sample types (cells, skin, blood) and lipid coverage levels.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels10 records

Core offering

Lipotype provides mass spectrometry-based shotgun lipidomics analysis as a paid service, quantifying 100+ lipid classes and 7,000+ individual lipid species across diverse biological sample types (cells, tissues, blood, skin, subcellular components, organs). Customers order pre-configured analysis packages through the company's online shop, ship samples to the Dresden laboratory, and receive comprehensive lipidomics reports with data visualization and statistical analyses within as little as two weeks. The service is GxP compliant and serves pharmaceutical, biotech, cosmetics, and academic customers globally.

Product overview

Lipotype is a lipidomics service provider offering a unified platform combining mass spectrometry-based lipid analysis with data visualization and statistical analysis services. The core offering is Lipotype Lipidomics, which delivers quantitative lipid profiling across 100+ lipid classes and 7000+ individual lipid species, supported by Lipidomics Data Analysis for interpretation. Analysis Packages and the Academia Shop provide modular access to specific lipid analysis services (Fatty Acyls, Glycerolipids, Phospholipids, Sphingolipids, Sterol Lipids, Prenol Lipids), while Lipid Research Resources offers supplementary educational content. Services are GxP compliant and deliver results in as little as two weeks, serving both industry and academia.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Lipotype Lipidomics (Lipidomics Analysis Service) Mass spectrometry-based lipidomics analysis service that quantifies thousands of lipids across 100+ lipid classes and 7,000+ individual lipid species in a wide range of sample types (cells, subcellular components, tissues, organs, blood, skin). GxP compliant, with results delivered in as little as two weeks for pharmaceutical, biotech, cosmetics, and academic customers.
• Lipotype Shotgun Lipidomics Automated shotgun lipidomics platform for high-throughput, comprehensive, and quantitative analysis of biological samples using mass spectrometry. Delivers broad lipid coverage with reproducible results.
• Lipidomics Data Analysis Data visualization and statistical analysis service that translates complex lipidomics datasets into interpretable figures and reports, helping researchers understand biological meaning and prepare results for publication or internal R&D decisions.
• Analysis Packages (Academia Shop) Pre-configured lipidomics analysis packages sold through the Lipotype online shop, allowing customers to purchase standardized analyses for specific sample types (e.g., cells, skin, blood) and lipid categories (Fatty Acyls, Glycerolipids, Phospholipids, Sphingolipids, Sterol Lipids, Prenol Lipids) with a self-service ordering flow.

Quantifiable outcome

• Coverage of 100+ lipid classes and 7000+ individual lipids in a single analysis
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers9 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Scientist.comcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorLipotype is listed on Scientist.com marketplace, allowing customers to discover and order lipidomics services through this scientific services platform.
• ScienceExchangecoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorLipotype is listed on ScienceExchange platform, enabling customers to access and purchase lipidomics services through this laboratory services marketplace.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Metabolon: Largest pure-play metabolomics services company, offering broad metabolomics profiling to pharma, academia, and consumer products. Highly comparable to Lipotype in customer base (pharma R&D, academic research) and service-based business model, though broader than lipidomics alone.
• Biocrates Life Sciences: Austria-based metabolomics services and kit company offering targeted metabolomics including lipid panels. Directly comparable in service-only model, pharmaceutical/academic customer base, and use of mass spectrometry-based workflows.
• Creative Proteomics: Offers lipidomics analysis services alongside proteomics and metabolomics for pharma and academic clients. Comparable in B2B service model, mass-spec-based workflows, and global e-commerce-led distribution, though operating at lower price points.
• Human Metabolome Technologies (HMT): Japan-based metabolomics services company offering both CE-MS and LC-MS-based metabolomics including lipid analysis. Comparable as a specialist service provider serving pharma and academic researchers globally.
• Chenomx: Provides NMR-based metabolomics profiling services and software for academic and industry researchers. Comparable as a specialist metabolomics services company, though Lipotype is MS-based.

Broad incumbents

• Eurofins Scientific: Large global bioanalytical CRO with metabolomics and lipid analysis offerings as part of a much broader testing portfolio. Comparable in mass-spec bioanalytical work for pharma clients, but as a generalist incumbent rather than a lipid specialist.
• SCIEX (Danaher): Major mass spectrometry instrumentation vendor whose instruments underpin lipidomics workflows. Comparable as the technology backbone used by Lipotype and adjacent competitor offering in-house lipidomics services through collaborations.
• Thermo Fisher Scientific: Manufacturer of Orbitrap mass spectrometers (Lipotype's core platform) and operator of large bioanalytical CRO services. Comparable both as instrument vendor enabling Lipotype's technology and as a broad incumbent that could expand into lipidomics services.
• Bruker Daltonics: Mass spectrometry instrumentation vendor serving metabolomics and lipidomics labs. Comparable as an instrument provider whose technology is substitutable for Lipotype's current Orbitrap platform, and which could expand into lipidomics services.

Emerging players

• IROA Technologies: Smaller metabolomics platform company offering isotope-labeled metabolomics services. Comparable as a specialty mass-spec metabolomics provider targeting research customers.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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• Facebookde-de.facebook.com/lipotype
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/lipotype

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

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Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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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