LabGiant provides a cloud‑based research infrastructure platform that aggregates the inventory, services, and expertise of over 300 labs and 100 facilities across Quebec.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Many research laboratories possess expensive instruments, specialized protocols, and expert personnel that remain invisible to other labs, leading to underutilized capacity and duplicated effort when scientists must recreate methods or seek unavailable equipment.
Solution
LabGiant offers a cloud‑based research infrastructure platform that aggregates the inventory, services, and expertise of over 300 laboratories and 100 facilities across Quebec. Users can search a unified catalog to discover and request instrument time, custom services, or methodological support, such as genome engineering and synthetic biology workflows. Facilities manage their resources through a dedicated CRM that tracks available instrument‑hours, shares protocols, and automates request approvals. By turning idle capacity into discoverable infrastructure, the platform accelerates project planning and reduces the time required to launch experiments. Integrated reporting shows utilization gains, helping institutions maximize the return on their research assets.
Target Audience
Primary customers are researchers and project teams in academic and institutional laboratories who need access to specialized equipment or services, as well as core facilities and university research centers seeking to monetize idle instrument capacity.
Features
- Centralized searchable database of instruments, services, and expertise across participating labs and facilities
- Facility‑focused CRM that logs available instrument‑hours, publishes protocols, and handles service requests
- Automated workflow for booking, approval, and usage tracking, eliminating manual spreadsheet management
- Support for large‑scale synthetic biology projects via the Genome Foundry offering
- Usage analytics that report on capacity utilization and experiment throughput for both users and providers