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Mercor Data lists labs, fabs and R&D records

Mercor Data publishes three listings for research organizations. Each says what the records have to include, what isn’t a fit and what a company earns. The ranges are Mercor’s own, read November 5, 2026, and none is a quote.

• Biotech and life sciences lab. 10 to 1,000 people, anywhere. Biotech and biopharma, CROs, genomics and diagnostics labs, consumer genomics companies and academic spin-outs. It wants electronic lab notebooks or structured experiment records the organization owns, 1,000 or more runs with their inputs and measured outcomes, failed runs included, and data that hasn’t been published. Mercor’s range: $50K to $875K, depending on volume and depth.
• Semiconductor and materials company. 10 to 2,000 people, anywhere. Fabs and foundries, device makers in solar, photonics, quantum and power electronics, fabless chip designers, equipment makers, and materials and battery labs. It wants run or build records that link each recipe or process setting to a measured result, 1,000 or more runs, wafers or experiments, with the failed builds and repeat runs kept and dated. Mercor’s range: $100K to $750K, depending on run count and how well runs link to results.
• Chemistry and materials R&D records. No size or location published. Mercor wants the reasoning behind the work: dated notebooks, experiment plans, versioned protocols, raw instrument outputs linked to sample IDs, analysis code, failed and null results with the troubleshooting that followed, and the stop or go decisions on each project. Priority domains are materials, chemistry and batteries, preclinical biology, computational science, process R&D, agriculture and climate, and clinical research. Mercor’s range: $10K to $300K.

Tools Mercor names: Benchling, LabArchives, Dotmatics, LIMS and Medidata Rave for labs; MES, SPC and yield systems, LIMS, electronic lab notebooks, Cadence, Synopsys and OSIsoft PI for fabs.

Who owns the data decides most of it

Three things rule a lab out of Mercor’s listings. Data owned by a sponsor, a partner, a customer or a foundry partner. Data that has already been published, or published papers and datasheets on their own. And licensed third-party IP. For a CRO or an academic spin-out, read the sponsored research agreement and the license from the university before you count your records.

The lab listing also leaves out device and AI software companies whose data is mainly software logs. Those fit the software page instead.

Wound-down labs are a strong fit

Mercor’s lab listing says “biotechs that have wound down and labs with years of archived work are a strong fit”, and its semiconductor listing says labs and startups that have wound down qualify. The records have to survive the shutdown: keep the notebook system, the LIMS exports and the shared drives until a license is signed, and settle who can sign for a closed company first. Mercor connects to your systems to run the export, so a lab with no accounts and no exports left has no records left to license.

What they’ll ask you

Mercor’s scoping questions for labs and fabs come down to four. Which records you keep and in which systems. Roughly how many runs or experiments, over how many years. Whether you kept failed builds and repeat runs, and whether you own the data outright. Whether any of it is patient-level or genomic data, and under what consent.

Patient-level and genomic data carry their own rules. The healthcare page covers HIPAA’s authorization and de-identification rules, and Mercor’s listing asks for research consent on genomic data.

Scale, Handshake AI and Telegraph name science too

Scale lists “Scientific Research” next to healthcare and life sciences, prefers 40 or more employees and de-identifies records inside your environment before anything is extracted. Handshake AI names pharmaceuticals and life sciences among its industries and asks for 20 or more full-time employees and 3 or more years in operation. Telegraph names healthcare and life sciences and takes company drives, including the CAD files, calculations and reports a lab keeps next to its notebooks.

Those three license the records of running the organization: the documents and SOPs, the shared drives, the email and the chat around the experiments. Mercor’s listings go after the experiments themselves.