Benchmark Bio

The problem

Rural clinics send blood samples to a city lab and wait three days, so patients are treated on a guess or not at all.

The solution

Benchmark Bio's desktop analyser runs the twelve most common blood tests from a finger prick in under an hour, operated by a nurse.

Who it's for

Rural clinics and general practices far from a laboratory.

Market

Bottom-up: about 30,000 customers like this in Switzerland and nearby, worth roughly $120 million a year at our prices.

Competition and edge

Headline metric

Pilot customers live

The team

Lena knows the customer and has sold to them before; Marco has built this kind of system at scale. We have worked side by side since before Benchmark Bio had a name.

Worked together

1–3 years

Hiring

A senior engineer and our first customer-success hire.

About the founder

Lena Keller

Founder & CEO · Basel, Switzerland · 6 years of experience

Lena spent a decade developing diagnostic instruments at a life-science company. Started Benchmark Bio in 2025 and works on it full-time from Basel.

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