# Emerald Cloud Lab

> Emerald Cloud Lab operates a remote-access biology and chemistry laboratory and the software used to direct it. Researchers ship samples, define experiments in Command Center and receive linked methods and results through Constellation. It serves biotechnology and pharmaceutical research, academic laboratories and other R&D teams through subscriptions and dedicated facility projects.

- **Founded:** 2010
- **Headquarters:** Austin, United States
- **Founders:** Brian Frezza (Co-founder and CEO), D.J. Kleinbaum (Co-founder)
- **Products:** Emerald Cloud Lab, ECL Command Center, ECL Constellation, Symbolic Lab Language, Dedicated cloud laboratory facilities
- **Notable:** Commercial production facility opened in South San Francisco in 2015., Carnegie Mellon academic cloud lab opened in spring 2024 in partnership with ECL., Included in Fast Company’s 2024 biotech Most Innovative Companies list.

## Products & services

- **Emerald Cloud Lab** — Remote wet-lab experiment execution, including sample preparation, analytical measurements and supported biological workflows.
- **ECL Command Center** — Integrated software for defining experiments and analyzing and visualizing results.
- **ECL Constellation** — Experimental data and metadata organized in a growing knowledge graph.
- **Symbolic Lab Language** — Language for interacting with cloud laboratories through Mathematica notebooks; public repository is GPL v3.
- **Dedicated cloud laboratory facilities** — Facility design, installation and operations partnerships for institutions and enterprises, exemplified by Carnegie Mellon.
- **Training and method development** — Certificate training, private tutoring and method-development options listed in the account configurator.

## Achievements

- Commercial production facility opened in South San Francisco in 2015.
- Carnegie Mellon academic cloud lab opened in spring 2024 in partnership with ECL.
- Included in Fast Company’s 2024 biotech Most Innovative Companies list.
- ECL researcher Ben Kline co-authored the 2023 Nature Coscientist paper.
- ECL and CMU collaborators published HPLC anomaly-detection research in October 2025.

## Latest updates

- **2026-05** — The public ECL GitHub organization lists a SymbolicLabLanguage repository update on May 1, 2026.
- **2025-10** — Digital Discovery published the ECL/CMU HPLC air-bubble anomaly-detection paper on October 29.
- **2025-07** — Forge reports July 25 Series C-1 and C-2 financing; these figures are secondary reporting.
- **2025-01** — Brian Frezza discussed cloud-lab operations on Capital Factory’s Austinpreneur podcast.

## Links

- Website: https://www.emeraldcloudlab.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/emerald-cloud-lab
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/EmeraldDNA
- GitHub: https://github.com/emeraldsci
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EmeraldTherapeutics

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