The Biotech Startups Podcast
🧬 Nathan Clark - Ganymede - Part 4 | Data Integration & Automation in the Life Sciences | Building a Technical Team & Go-To-Market Motion | Creating Efficient Data Infrastructures | Automating Complex Workflows
July 25, 2024
Part 4 of 4. My guest for this week’s episode is Nathan Clark, Founder and CEO of Ganymede. Ganymede is the modern cloud data platform for the life sciences and manufacturing. Their Lab-as-Code technology allows you to quickly integrate and harmonize lab instruments and app data, automate analysis, visualize all your data in dashboards built over a powerful data lake, and ultimately speed up your operations to accelerate science or production.
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Part 4 of 4. 

My guest for this week’s episode is Nathan Clark, Founder and CEO of Ganymede. Ganymede is the modern cloud data platform for the life sciences and manufacturing. Their Lab-as-Code technology allows you to quickly integrate and harmonize lab instruments and app data, automate analysis, visualize all your data in dashboards built over a powerful data lake, and ultimately speed up your operations to accelerate science or production.

Prior to founding Ganymede, Nathan was Product Manager for several of Benchling's data products, including the Insights BI tool and Machine Learning team. Before Benchling, Nathan worked at Affirm as a Senior Product Manager and was also a Trader at Goldman Sachs.

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Nathan’s extensive background in machine learning and data systems across financial and lab technology and knowledge of their applications in the life sciences offers unique insights for founders to benefit from. Please enjoy my conversation with Nathan Clark.

Timestamps:
00:28 Intro
01:56 Empowering bioinformatics engineers with data integration and automation 
04:38 The vision for Ganymede’s developer platform; automating wet lab data 
06:39 The key to Ganymede’s quick growth: faster integrations 
08:18 Nathan’s go-to-market motion at Ganymede; explaining your product 
10:29 Which companies benefit the most from Ganymede? 
14:23 Data strategies, modern data stacks, and building a data lake 
20:21 Future vision for Ganymede; expanding platform features and reducing bugging cycles 27:02 Automating complex workflows to unlock the next level of R&D 
29:40 Shout-outs and advice for 21-year old self 
33:29 Outro


Find Our Guest, Nathan Clark, at these links: 
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathan-clark-4b850134/
https://www.ganymede.bio/

Find Our Host, Jon Chee, at these links: 
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonchee
https://www.excedr.com

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Enriched Notes:

Topics Mentioned:
Ganymede https://www.ganymede.bio/
Ganymede Products https://www.ganymede.bio/products
Salesforce https://www.salesforce.com/
Hubspot https://www.hubspot.com/
Ramp https://ramp.com/
Benchling https://www.benchling.com/
Data Science & Analysis https://aws.amazon.com/what-is/data-science/
Bioinformatics https://www.genome.gov/genetics-glossary/Bioinformatics
Automating Wet Lab Data https://blog.ganymede.bio/4-data-first-strategies-for-lab-automation/
FCS Files https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_Cytometry_Standard
Data Lakes & the Modern Data Stack https://blog.ganymede.bio/the-essential-lab-data-tech-stack-for-every-stage-of-drug-development/

People Mentioned:
Benson Lee https://www.linkedin.com/in/benson-lee-69980745/
Nicholas (Nicky) Ksiezopolski https://www.linkedin.com/in/nksiezopolski/
Sanjay Saraf https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanjaysaraf/

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