Innovation Park at Notre Dame client GoLIMS® is helping researchers at the University of Notre Dame focus more on collaboration and less on paperwork, from idea to intellectual property.
The GoLIMS platform provides simplification, organization and precision to the daily flood of information scientists must collect, decipher and maintain. Laboratories using the program no longer risk losing their discoveries inside notebooks, or have to preserve important findings within word processing programs.
GoLIMS creator and founder Chad Gregory, a Michigan State graduate and Loyola post-graduate, came to Innovation Park and began working with Rich Taylor, College of Science Associate Dean.
“Our purpose for coming to the Park was to further Notre Dame’s research mission,” Gregory said. “The College of Science was our first strong BETA group and has been using our program since 2010.”
GoLIMS now has clients in engineering, chemistry and biology, and is developing relationships with other departments.
“The client possibilities through Notre Dame have been very advantageous for us here at the Park,” Gregory said.
Gregory approached Innovation Park because he saw the value in the dynamic facilities and breadth of services for aspiring innovators.
“The proximity to campus and the optics of the building have been very beneficial,” he said. “The environment and sage advice from Park business experts are conducive to an entrepreneur.”
In December GoLIMS completed series A funding with a Michiana area Angel investor network.
“We want to be the one-stop shop to put in every lab and every research facility on university campuses," Gregory said.
GoLIMS operates under the software as a service (SaaS) model, offering the ability to organize studies, experiments and sample inventories, with a tool that is cost-efficient, easy to learn, and always available. The SaaS model reduces startup time to a matter of hours, with no special hardware, software or additional IT expertise required.
The GoLIMS core team also includes John Costello, lead software architect; Kael Kanczuzewski, business development director; Andrew Schoenle, director of sales; and Lianne Mink, customer relations director.