ABOUT DATAJOINT
We are the foundation underneath the science.
DataJoint exists so that scientific work compounds, instead of disappearing. We codify experiments, pipelines, and results as first-class scientific data. The foundation underneath every program. The architecture every breakthrough rests on.
OUR ORIGIN
DataJoint was built inside experimental and computational neuroscience — complex, multimodal, and scalable.
The kind of research where a single experiment can take years, span institutions, span instruments, and produce more data than any individual mind can hold.
- Where brilliant work fails to be reproduced six months later.
- Where pipelines break when a graduate student leaves.
- Where petabytes of data mean nothing without the context of how they were made.
FROM INSIGHT TO FOUNDATION
The infrastructure of science had not kept up with the science.
The Insight
Scientists didn’t need another database, another notebook, or another platform. They needed a scientific foundation.
Experiments, pipelines, and results codified as first-class data, captured as the science ran, in a form anyone could trust later.
Not artifacts. Trusted scientific assets that survive the experiment, the team, and the years.
The Outcome
So we built that foundation. Not another tool stacked on top, but the ground the science stands on, so the work compounds instead of disappearing after each experiment.
The upstream, experiment-first foundation that codifies scientific work before it flows downstream, making the platforms organizations already use more reliable, more explainable, and more valuable for science.
OUR MISSION
We exist so that scientific work compounds, instead of disappearing.
Every experiment, every pipeline, every result becomes a reusable, defensible, AI-ready asset for the next decision.
BUILT WHERE THE SCIENCE IS HARDEST
Built where the experiment begins. Proven where the science is hardest.
The institutions running the world's most complex multimodal research run on DataJoint. The same upstream problem pharma R&D is now trying to solve at higher stakes.
OUR JOURNEY
Milestones along the foundation.
From a neuroscience lab in Houston to a foundation underneath modern R&D. The institutions, programs, and partnerships that brought us here.
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2009 Conceived Created at Baylor College of Medicine in the Tolias LabBCM
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2016 MICrONS Begins DataJoint becomes the foundation for the largest connectomics dataset in historyMICrONS
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2017 DARPA SBIR Small-business innovation research grant (Contract D17PC00162)DARPA
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2018 Princeton Funding Princeton Neuroscience Institute funds user manual developmentPRINCETON
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2022 NIH BRAIN U24 NIH grant U24 NS116470 for open-source dissemination of DataJoint ElementsNIH BRAIN
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2025 Jim Olson Joins as CEO Former Flywheel CEO joins to lead the next phase of growth
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2025 $4.9M Seed Round Co-led by Nina Capital, Inoca Capital Partners, and Capital FactoryNINA INOCA CAP FACTORY
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2026 Agentic AI Launch Agentic AI Control Layer for Scientific Workflows announced; pharma R&D pilots active
OUR VISION
A world where every experiment moves science forward.
Where computational reproducibility is the norm, not the exception. Where the upstream foundation makes every downstream breakthrough possible. Where scientific work compounds, instead of disappearing.
OUR TEAM
Built by scientists. Backed by operators.
DataJoint is built by a team that spans neuroscience PhDs, infrastructure engineers, and commercial operators. The people running the foundation.
Meet the teamHOW WE ENGAGE
More than software. A partnership in science.
Every DataJoint engagement is led by our SciOps team. Three phases. One proven engagement methodology.
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