BioRender

BioRender, originally known as BioRender.io, is a company based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, with a fully remote operation. It was founded by Shiz Aoki, a former Lead Medical Illustrator at National Geographic. As a venture-backed startup and a graduate of the Y Combinator’s W18 batch, BioRender has established itself in the B2B sector, specifically catering to the scientific community. The platform is designed to help scientists create professional scientific figures rapidly using drag-and-drop functionality, which is reportedly up to 50 times faster than traditional methods. It offers thousands of pre-made icons and customizable templates across more than 30 fields of life sciences, facilitating the creation of scientific visuals and presentations directly online without any downloads. BioRender’s mission is to accelerate the world’s ability to learn, discover, and communicate science, aiming to make science communication more open, collaborative, and easily understandable. The platform supports over 2.5 million users from more than 100 countries and has been embraced by over 1500 leading institutions including Johns Hopkins Medicine, University of Cambridge, and Stanford Medicine. Figures created via BioRender have been cited over 300,000 times in various prestigious publications like Nature and Scientific Reports. The company also offers educational webinars to enhance users’ skills in creating scientific figures.