Ajit Nagral
CEO & Chairman
Seasoned entrepreneur who has built multiple companies in the Life Science and Technology Domain: Megaware, NuGenesis Technologies, Sciformix Corp. and Scitara Corp.
About Us
Meet the team.
Modernize the lab.
Scitara is a leading global provider of cloud-based software solutions tailored for the life sciences and other science-based industries. Our innovative solutions drive the digital transformation of the entire scientific laboratory ecosystem and beyond, offering a modern lab data connectivity infrastructure that enhances productivity and enables advanced insights through AI and ML technologies. Our vendor-agnostic iPaaS for Science platform drives seamless integration of both new and legacy instruments, applications, and web services into a unified, cloud-based environment. This enables the transformation, metadata tagging, and streaming of lab data into any desired format and repository.
Scitara adheres to a rigorous information security framework, is compliant with ISO 27001:2022 Information Security Management Systems and SOC II Standards and is designed for operation in GxP regulated environments.
10 things to know about Scitara
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Scitara is a young company of industry veterans who deeply understand the challenges of lab asset integration
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Scitara DLX, the first iPaaS for Science, is a novel, modern approach to lab asset integration and data workflow automation
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Scitara DLX was designed from the ground up to be deployed in regulated laboratories
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Four top 20 pharma customers are in the process of scaling the deployment of Scitara DLX across their global laboratories
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Scitara is partnered with the largest players in the laboratory ecosystem, including Accenture, AWS, LabVantage, Waters, Agilent, Thermo, IDBS, Revvity Signals, Benchling, Snowflake
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Scitara DLX is not a destination application; it is data mobility infrastructure
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Scitara DLX harmonizes data in different formats and supports any data format/standard the customer wants to use
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Scitara DLX has connected to over 500 different lab assets and counting
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The event stream in Scitara DLX provides the highest level of data integrity for data in flight
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Ajit Nagral is a serial entrepreneur who has built multiple companies in the Life Science and Technology domain. Before Scitara, he was also the founder of many successful PharmaTech and scientific process outsourcing companies. He has over 30 years of experience in the life sciences industry and has been recognized as a visionary leader and innovator. [Pharma’s Almanac | Ajit Nagral]
Industry veterans, big thinkers & problem-solvers
Geoff Gerhardt, Ph.D.
Chief Technology Officer, Co-Founder
Over 25 years leading R&D teams producing innovative technologies and products: Waters Corp., J&W Scientific Technologies and Canadian Food Inspection Agency.
Vinayak Purohit
Chief Financial Officer
Senior Finance Professional with over 40 years of Corporate Finance experience across various industries. Headed Finance for GE India, HT Media, Thomas Cook India, Rediff.com and Sciformix.
Jeff R. Mazzeo, Ph.D.
Chief Marketing Officer
Recently appointed Chief Marketing Officer, Jeff, a marketing innovator, brings 30 years of experience in life sciences, Waters Corp.
Fran Bates
Chief Customer Officer
Over 25 years experience delivering customer success: CambridgeSoft, PerkinElmer, Sciformix.
Dave Levy
Vice President of Strategy, Partnerships
30 years of product and global account management. Introduced several game-changing products to market: Waters Corp., NuGenesis Technologies, CambridgeSoft Inc. and PerkinElmer Inc.
Our board
Ajit Nagral
CEO & Chairman
Seasoned entrepreneur who has built multiple companies in the Life Science and Technology Domain: Megaware, NuGenesis Technologies, Sciformix Corp. and Scitara Corp.
Andrea Jackson
Board Member
Director, Nortpond Ventures. Andrea has been working with convergent technologies for over 15 years. She has held leadership positions at PerkinElmer, Merck Millipore.
Rohit Khanna, Ph.D.
Board Member
Founder of Dynamic Solutions Corp. leader at Waters Corp., and a board member of multiple industry-leading organizations, Rohit brings nearly four decades of leadership experience to the table.
Chip Hazard
Board Member
General Partner at FlyBridge. Over 25 years of venture investing and board experience, Chip’s investment interests span companies and technologies across the information technology sector.
Mike Stapleton
Board Member
With 35+ years in leadership across software, instruments, services, and pharmaceuticals, Mike has driven industry transformation as COO at Accelrys, GM at Invitrogen and PerkinElmer, and CIO at Merck.
“A team of industry veterans, we’ve dedicated our careers to lab informatics innovation—and we’re committed to solving the decades-old data connectivity challenge. We know our solutions are foundational to laboratory digital transformation, which will help accelerate scientific discovery.”
—Ajit Nagral, CEO & Chairman