BioRender

BioRender is a remote-first software company founded in 2017 and based in Toronto, whose visual science communication platform is used by more than 4 million scientists worldwide. The platform allows researchers, students and life-sciences teams to produce accurate, publication-ready scientific figures without advanced drawing or design skills. Its core product combines more than 50,000 expert-vetted icons with thousands of templates, figure-building tools, graphing and data analysis, collaboration workspaces, and workflows for scientific posters and presentations.

The company's technical work spans AI-assisted figure generation, web-based design tools, collaboration software and data analysis. Leo by BioRender, an AI agent introduced alongside the platform, plans layouts, builds editable scientific figures, applies BioRender styling and refines individual visual elements. Hundreds of thousands of publications have featured figures made with the software.

BioRender was founded by Shiz Aoki, Katya Shteyn and Ryan Marien, and is backed by investors including Y Combinator. It serves customers across academic research, pharmaceutical, biotechnology and research institutions, as well as scientific publishing and the wider life-sciences sector. The company states its mission as accelerating the world's ability to learn, discover and communicate science.