What Verso Biosciences does

Verso Biosciences is a privately held life science software company founded in 2016 and headquartered with dual operations in Davis, CA (business) and San Francisco, CA (technology). The company develops MarkerLab®, a web-based data organization and visualization platform for multi-omics data, targeting research laboratories, kit and reagent companies, and individual researchers. MarkerLab integrates multiple omics layers including metabolomics, lipidomics, ionomics, and fatty acid analysis, with planned expansion into glycomics, targeted metabolomics, proteomics, and aromatics.

The company's central asset is the PTFI Research Hub, which it operates in partnership with the Periodic Table of Food Initiative. PTFI is a global effort to build a public database of food composition and function, supported by a centralized data pipeline, custom internal standards for cross-lab harmonization, and a cloud-based chemical library for confident feature annotation. Verso's distribution leverages the American Heart Association's Precision Medicine Platform, which provides cloud-based analysis and machine learning environments for researchers working with PTFI datasets. The platform ecosystem spans 9 Centers of Excellence and multiple National Lab Hubs and Partner Labs worldwide, and has accumulated data covering 2,483 foods, 420,000 protein components, 3,000 lipid components, 2,617 quantitatively measured analytes, and 27,713 entities measured for discovery.

Verso's business model is not publicly disclosed in detail; pricing is not available, and no named paying customers, revenue figures, or funding rounds appear in available sources. The company appears to operate as a technology solutions provider combining a web-based SaaS-style platform (MarkerLab) with research-consortium-backed data infrastructure (PTFI Research Hub). Its go-to-market relies on content marketing, scientific community engagement, and channel partnerships rather than a large direct salesforce, with global reach enabled by web-based self-serve access.

Name

Verso Biosciences

Legal name

Verso Biosciences, Inc.

Website

https://versobio.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Verso Biosciences is a private life science software company that develops MarkerLab, a web-based multi-omics data visualization platform, and operates the PTFI Research Hub for the Periodic Table of Food Initiative, serving research labs, kit and reagent companies, and global food biodiversity researchers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Davis

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Verso Biosciences develops and operates MarkerLab, a web-based data organization and visualization platform that integrates multi-omics data (untargeted metabolomics, lipidomics, ionomics, fatty acid analysis) for life science research. The company also operates the PTFI Research Hub, a centralized cloud platform enabling global laboratory networks to generate, upload, and process standardized food composition data through a centralized pipeline, supporting the Periodic Table of Food Initiative.

Product overview

Verso Biosciences offers a unified product ecosystem centered on MarkerLab®, a web-based multi-omics data organization and visualization platform, complemented by the PTFI Research Hub platform that provides access to the Periodic Table of Food Initiative's standardized multi-omics database and tools. MarkerLab serves labs, kit/reagent companies, and researchers with data integration, customizable toolsets, interactive reports, and collaboration features, while the PTFI Research Hub enables researchers to explore PTFI open-access omics data and utilize MarkerLab for searching and visualizing food biomolecular data.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• MarkerLab: A web-based data organization and visualization platform for multi-omics data that helps labs produce high-quality standardized data for research.

Products and services

• MarkerLab® A web-based data organization and visualization platform for multi-omics data that provides simple data integration, customizable applications and toolsets, engaging interactive reports, and a streamlined collaboration environment for labs, kit and reagent companies, and researchers.
• PTFI Research Hub A research community and resources platform for the Periodic Table of Food Initiative that provides standardized tools, data, and training to map food quality of the world's edible biodiversity, enabling scientific research on global food biodiversity through multi-omics tools.

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Ten partnerships are on record, tiered core and major.

• American Heart Association (Precision Medicine Platform)coreTechnology or IntegrationThe American Heart Association's Precision Medicine Platform provides cloud-based technology enabling researchers to collaborate and analyze large PTFI datasets from any computer using secure environments and machine learning. AHA Data Science team provides tutorial notebooks to guide users on analyzing PTFI data.
• Periodic Table of Food Initiative (PTFI)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerVerso Biosciences operates the PTFI Research Hub and provides technology solutions that enable the global effort to create a public database of food composition and function. The partnership supports scientific research through multi-omics tools for discovery and analysis of food quality factors affecting human and planetary health.
• West Coast Metabolomics Center, UC DavismajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerResearch and development partner contributing to PTFI analytical methods and food composition analysis within the global laboratory network.
• Analyticon DiscoverymajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerResearch and development partner contributing to PTFI analytical methods and food composition analysis within the global laboratory network.
• Colorado State UniversitymajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerResearch and development partner contributing to PTFI analytical methods and food composition analysis within the global laboratory network.
• one.biomajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerResearch and development partner contributing to PTFI analytical methods and food composition analysis within the global laboratory network.
• UCLA LipidomicsmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerResearch and development partner contributing to PTFI analytical methods and food composition analysis within the global laboratory network.
• University of Colorado, Anschutz MedicalmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerResearch and development partner contributing to PTFI analytical methods and food composition analysis within the global laboratory network.
• UT Southwestern Medical CentermajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerResearch and development partner contributing to PTFI analytical methods and food composition analysis within the global laboratory network.
• Vanderbilt UniversitymajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerResearch and development partner contributing to PTFI analytical methods and food composition analysis within the global laboratory network.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• QIAGEN Digital Insights: Bioinformatics and data analysis offerings within QIAGEN's broader life sciences portfolio. Comparable as a provider of life sciences data interpretation and visualization software, though much larger and focused on genomics/clinical rather than food multi-omics.
• Genedata: Enterprise bioinformatics platform serving pharma, biotech, and academic research with data management and analysis workflows. Comparable as a life sciences data platform, though much larger and focused on biopharma R&D.
• Dotmatics (Revvity): Scientific informatics platform for biology, chemistry, and formulation R&D. Comparable as a data organization and visualization platform for life sciences research labs, though enterprise-focused and significantly larger than Verso.
• LabVantage Solutions: Laboratory information management system (LIMS) provider serving life sciences labs. Comparable as lab data management software, though focused on sample/workflow tracking rather than multi-omics visualization.
• Thermo Fisher Scientific: Largest life sciences tools provider with substantial software offerings (e.g., Compound Discoverer, Proteome Discoverer) for analytical instrument data analysis. Comparable through multi-omics data analysis software products, though embedded in a much larger instrument ecosystem.

Direct peers

• Seven Bridges (Velsera): Bioinformatics platform enabling multi-omics data analysis at scale for research consortia and pharma. Comparable as a cloud platform serving distributed research networks with multi-omics data processing capabilities.
• Benchling: Cloud-based life sciences R&D platform offering experiment data capture, analysis, and collaboration tools for biologists and chemists. Comparable to Verso as a web-native informatics platform serving research labs, though broader in scope (full R&D workflow vs. multi-omics data focus).
• DNAnexus: Cloud-based biomedical data analysis and collaboration platform used by major consortia and research initiatives. Comparable to Verso's cloud-based architecture and partnership with the American Heart Association Precision Medicine Platform.

Emerging players

• Metabolon: Metabolomics services and informatics company providing molecular profiling of biological samples. Comparable through overlap in metabolomics data generation and interpretation workflows, though primarily a services company rather than software platform.
• DNAstack: Federated genomics data platform enabling secure, distributed research collaboration. Comparable to Verso as a cloud-native platform supporting global research data ecosystems with collaboration features.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/versobio

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles10 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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