UniProt Consortium

What UniProt Consortium does

UniProt Consortium is a Geneva, Switzerland-based entity described in firmographic data as a resource for protein sequences, functional information, and annotated data, serving the life sciences research community. It was founded in 2002, operates as a private company, and supports a small team of 11-50 employees. Its core product surface centers on a curated protein knowledge resource — sequence data and functional annotations — that is recognized across academic and translational research, though the provided source material returns only a website fallback page and offers no detail on database architecture, API surface, data ingestion pipelines, or curation workflows.

The input supplies no information on the underlying technology stack, proprietary features, or platform components beyond the firmographic positioning of UniProt as a protein information resource. There is no evidence in the source material describing how the data is collected, how annotations are produced or validated, what tooling or compute infrastructure underpins it, or how it integrates with downstream research software. Partnerships, integrations, certifications, and patents are likewise unrecorded in the source.

Commercial mechanics are not documented. The firmographic record lists company_type as "for_profit" with no IPO and a private status, yet no pricing model, no go-to-market motion, no customer logos, no revenue figure, and no funding round information is present. Revenue is flagged as not available, and ownership structure cannot be determined from the source — which consists primarily of a website fallback message. As a result, the business model can only be characterized at a structural level: a small, privately held bioinformatics resource with no commercial disclosures in the available data.

Name

UniProt Consortium

Website

https://uniprot.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2002

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

UniProt Consortium, based in Geneva and founded in 2002, is a bioinformatics resource that provides protein sequence data, functional annotations, and curated protein information to the life sciences research community, operated by a small team of 11-50 employees.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Geneva

HQ country

Switzerland

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Operations

Core offering

UniProt is a comprehensive resource providing protein sequences, functional information, and curated annotated data to the life sciences research community. The platform delivers standardized, cross-referenced protein records supported by expert curation and made available through a public web interface and bulk data distribution.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• UniProt A comprehensive, curated resource providing protein sequences, functional annotations, taxonomic information, and cross-references to other biological databases, intended for life sciences researchers, bioinformaticians, and computational biologists in academic, governmental, and commercial settings.

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Market position

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/uniprot

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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