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QbDVision is an Austin-based software company building the first cloud platform for Digital CMC (Chemistry, Manufacturing, and Controls), giving pharmaceutical and biotech teams a structured, single source of truth for product and process knowledge. By operationalizing Quality by Design principles, the platform replaces scattered documents and spreadsheets with connected, machine-readable data that accelerates drug development, tech transfer, and regulatory submissions. Founded in 2015 as CherryCircle Software, QbDVision now serves several of the world's largest biopharma organizations and CDMOs.