Stephan Smith, Founder & CTO - A Marketplace for Science

<p><strong><span style="color: #e67e23;">Invest with Boston's Top Angels:</span> <span style="color: #2880b9;"><a style= "color: #2880b9;" href= "https://www.angelinvestboston.com/our-syndicates">Sal's Syndicates</a></span></strong></p> <p>“Their internal users will see that their access time to an instrument goes down. They can get on it sooner, which is counter-intuitive, but it is reality.”</p> <p>What if scientists could plan and run experiments much faster? Meenta’s software platform is making the use of high-end research equipment far more efficient. Co-Founder & CTO Stephan Smith is excited by the massive opportunity his startup is addressing.</p> <p>Highlights include:</p> <ul> <li>Sal Daher’s Intro</li> <li>Stephan Smith’s Bio</li> <li>“Half the time they sit idle and half the time if someone owns one of these instruments, there's still a long wait to get on them. They're not simple devices, but they are crucial for research.”</li> <li>“Used to take 3 months for you to book time on one of these high-end sequencing machines and have all the reagents and everything else lined up and the right people and so forth, and now you're doing it within 2 weeks, 12 days.”</li> <li>Biggest Obstacle: Convincing People That They Don’t Have to Do Things the Old, Slow Way</li> <li>The Unique Challenges of a Multi-Sided Marketplace</li> <li>“…we let our users make a decision based on whether they care about speed, or quality, or price.”</li> <li>How the Co-Founders, Stephan & Gabor, Came Together</li> <li>“…we were 10 minutes into him telling me about the problem and I think the top of my head blew off. I was like, this is what I've been waiting for. This is a massive market.”</li> <li>“We allow them [universities] to make their core labs more efficient by having more samples throw flow through these machines. These machines are able to run actually more efficiently.”</li> <li>“Their internal users will see that their access time to an instrument goes down. They can get on it sooner, which is counterintuitive, but it is r