Datavisyn

datavisyn is a data visualization software company specializing in web-based solutions for pharmaceutical and biomedical research and development. Founded by four leading scientists in the field of visual data science for biomedical informatics, the company bridges cutting-edge academic research and commercial application, delivering interactive data analysis tools that empower scientists and R&D teams to extract meaningful insights from complex biological and experimental datasets.

Headquartered in Linz, Austria, datavisyn serves some of the world's most successful pharmaceutical companies — including Bayer and Boehringer Ingelheim — and is built by a multidisciplinary team of software engineers, visualization experts, bioinformaticians, and DevOps engineers. The company's co-founders have collaborated on dozens of research papers and open-source software packages through their academic roles at Johannes Kepler University Linz, the University of Utah, Graz University of Technology, and Harvard Medical School.

Core Products

• Ordino: An interactive visual data analysis solution that enables users to effortlessly rank, filter, and explore a diverse range of experimental and metadata within a single flexible platform. Ordino integrates public data from over 65 sources and supports a wide variety of use cases, including identifying genes as potential drug targets or biomarkers and selecting the most appropriate cell lines for experiments.
• Aevidence: A cutting-edge stack of interactive scientific discovery applications designed to help researchers explore biomedical data in new ways. Aevidence provides insights into disease understanding, target and therapeutic concept identification, and modality decisions, helping organizations maximize their data potential and maintain a competitive edge.

Technology Foundation — VisynCore

• VisynCore is datavisyn's proprietary web foundation for building high-performance R&D visualization and analysis applications.
• Scalable: Optimized for massive, high-dimensional R&D datasets.
• Modular: Visualization and analytics components can be combined to address complex use cases.
• Self-Service: Empowers scientists with sophisticated, no-code analytics capabilities.
• Traceable: Ensures that the path to every breakthrough insight is recorded and reproducible.

Services Offered

• Development: Custom software development for pharmaceutical and biomedical R&D visualization needs.
• Research: Ongoing scientific research in visual data science and biomedical informatics, with continued commitment to open-source contributions.
• Consulting: Expert guidance on data integration, visualization strategy, and tailored analytical solutions.
• Training: Training services to help teams effectively leverage datavisyn's tools and technologies.

Company Values and Culture

• Inclusiveness: datavisyn champions inclusiveness and encourages all team members to contribute in their own way.
• Teamwork: The company excels through collaboration, building on each other's strengths and learning from mistakes.
• Openness: An open culture that welcomes ideas and input from all team members and stakeholders.
• Excellence: A commitment to delivering innovative solutions using cutting-edge technology.
• Integrity: Transparency is embedded in all work, from open-source code to shared agile development practices.
• Commitment: A core principle of both agile software development and all company endeavors.

Leadership and Scientific Advisors

• Dominic Girardi — Chief Executive Officer
• Marc Streit — Chief Strategy Officer and Co-Founder; Full Professor of Computer Science at Johannes Kepler University Linz
• Michael Pühringer — Chief Technology Officer
• Alexander Lex — Co-Founder and Scientific Advisor; Professor of Computer Science at the University of Utah and Professor of Human Computer Interaction at Graz University of Technology
• Nils Gehlenborg — Co-Founder and Scientific Advisor; Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School
• Samuel Gratzl — Co-Founder
• Daniela Moitzi — Engineering Manager and UI/UX Lead
• Holger Stitz — Research and Development Lead
• Vanessa Stoiber — DevOps, Quality Assurance, and Systems Administration Lead

datavisyn combines deep academic expertise with commercial software development to deliver state-of-the-art visualization and analytics solutions tailored to the unique demands of pharmaceutical and biomedical R&D. The company remains committed to open-source principles while providing the data integration, custom development, and enterprise-grade services that commercial organizations require.