What Paralab SA does

Paralab SA is a Portuguese corporate entity (Sociedade Anónima) headquartered in Gondomar, Portugal, founded in 1992. According to the available firmographic data, the company employs approximately 42 people, placing it in the small-to-medium enterprise (SME) segment of the Portuguese market. The company's registered website domain is paralab.pt, though at the time of data capture the site returned only a verification/loading page and did not expose product, service, or corporate information. No products, services, customer segments, technology stack, pricing model, or revenue mechanics are documented in the input data.

The functional nature of the business — what Paralab sells, to whom, and through what go-to-market motion — cannot be determined from the supplied material. The corporate name "Paralab" is suggestive of a laboratory- or science-adjacent business, and the 33-year operating history combined with the Gondomar base (in the Porto metropolitan area) indicates a long-standing regional operator, but no first-party or third-party source in the input substantiates a specific product line, end-customer profile, or business model. All revenue, pricing, partnership, customer-logo, leadership, funding, and technology fields are empty or marked unavailable in the source data.

The investment-relevant picture is therefore largely limited to firmographics: a 33-year-old, privately held Portuguese SME of modest scale, with no disclosed growth, capital, or product signals. Any deeper analytical conclusions about competitive positioning, defensibility, or trajectory would require additional primary-source disclosure from the company itself.

Name

Paralab SA

Website

https://paralab.pt

Company type

Private

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Paralab SA is a privately held Portuguese SME (Sociedade Anónima) headquartered in Gondomar, founded in 1992, with approximately 42 employees. Its specific products, services, customer base, and revenue model are not disclosed in the available data.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain

Core offering

Paralab SA's specific core offerings could not be determined from the available source material. The company is a Portugal-based entity founded in 1992, headquartered in Gondomar, with approximately 42 employees, but the source data contains only a website loader/verification screen and no descriptive information about products, services, or business activities. The name "Paralab" conventionally suggests laboratory/scientific-related activities in the Portuguese market.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Ideal customer profiles1 record

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Expansion highlights1 record

Direct peers

• Hach Company: Specialist provider of water analysis and laboratory instrumentation products. Comparable as a focused lab equipment/instrumentation supplier; serves overlapping QA/QC and environmental testing end markets.
• Labbox Laboratory Supplies: European (Spain-based) distributor of laboratory consumables, equipment, and chemicals. The closest geographic and scale comparable to Paralab, serving an adjacent Iberian research market with a similar small-mid distributor model.
• Carl Roth GmbH + Co. KG: German specialist distributor and manufacturer of chemicals, reagents, and lab consumables. Comparable as a mid-sized European lab supply specialist with a similar product breadth and direct-ship distribution model.
• Dutscher Scientific: French laboratory products distributor serving academic and industrial researchers across Europe. Closely comparable mid-sized European lab distribution peer with similar product mix and customer profile to a Portuguese specialist like Paralab.

Broad incumbents

• Avantor (formerly VWR International): Global distributor of laboratory products and supplies. Comparable as the most broad incumbent in the same scientific supply distribution category Paralab operates in, though at vastly larger scale and with a much wider SKU base.
• Merck Life Science (Sigma-Aldrich): Global life science and laboratory supply business within Merck KGaA. Comparable as a major incumbent in the broader scientific supply category, with overlapping reagent and consumable offerings sourced by Iberian research customers.
• Fisher Scientific (Thermo Fisher): One of the largest global laboratory equipment and consumables distributors. Directly comparable business model (catalog distribution to research and industrial labs) though operating at multinational scale with broader geographic reach than Paralab.

Emerging players

• Eppendorf AG: Manufacturer of laboratory instruments, consumables, and bioprocessing equipment with its own European distribution. Adjacent peer — combines manufacturing with direct regional sales, an alternative model to pure distribution like Paralab's.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights3 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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