About SuperLabWe make external R&D easier to find, procure and execute
SuperLab is building the marketplace for external R&D.
Companies come to us with an R&D challenge. We bring together the capabilities, services, expertise and providers to solve it, and help run the project from first contact to results.
The challenge
Why we exist
R&D needs are hard to turn into actionable projects, while the capabilities to carry them out are fragmented across providers.
DeepTech companies
Turning an R&D need into a project means searching dozens of organisations and re-explaining it every time.
An R&D need rarely arrives as a specification. Turning it into a project can mean searching dozens of organisations, decoding technical descriptions and re-explaining it to every new contact.
SuperLab connects both sides
Labs & research orgsLabs & research organisations
Sophisticated capabilities, spread across many providers and hard for companies to find.
Sophisticated equipment, services and expertise are spread across many organisations, each describing them in its own way, and struggle to reach the companies that could use them.
Our approach
Companies should be able to start with the problem they are trying to solve, not with which lab, machine or organisation to contact. We connect technological needs with the right capabilities, expertise and providers, and structure the engagement from discovery to execution.
The process
How SuperLab works
Start with your R&D challenge
Tell us what you're building. We translate it into technical requirements.
Tell us what you're developing or testing. You don't need to know the exact machine or lab — we translate your project into technical requirements.
Find the right capabilities
Matched on what your project requires, not keywords.
We identify equipment, facilities, services and expertise across the network, matched on what the project requires, not keywords.
Connect with the right provider
We introduce you and coordinate next steps.
Once there's a strong fit, we connect you with the research organisation or lab and coordinate next steps.
Move the project forward
Quotes, scheduling, agreements and access — handled.
From quotations and scheduling to agreements and access, we reduce the friction between finding a capability and using it.
Needs change as a technology matures. SuperLab supports the whole journey.
- Characterisation
- Prototyping
- Pilot
- Scale-up
What you can access
R&D capabilities and services
From a single measurement to a full development project: the equipment, services and expertise needed to develop and validate new technologies.
Prototyping & fabrication
Machining, additive manufacturing, pilot production and specialised fabrication.
Testing & validation
Mechanical, electrical, EMC, environmental, reliability and performance testing.
Characterisation & analysis
Material analysis, microscopy, spectroscopy, metrology and advanced measurement.
Contract research & development
Development work carried out for you, from a feasibility study to a full engineering project.
Process development & scale-up
Process development, pilot lines and scale-up, as a service or on shared infrastructure.
Specialised expertise
Researchers, engineers and specialists who help design experiments, interpret results and solve development challenges.
For research organisations and labs
Turn capabilities into opportunities
SuperLab's AI structures your capabilities from existing websites and documents, then matches them with companies that need them.
Make your equipment, services and expertise discoverable without building catalogues by hand. SuperLab's AI structures capabilities from your existing websites and technical documents — you stay in control of what is published.
- Capability
- Relevant demand
- Qualified opportunity
Our vision
Beyond matching supply and demand
Matching the requests that already exist is only the start. We are building a marketplace that helps the R&D market itself grow.
Understand emerging needs
See where R&D demand is heading, before the request is written.
See where R&D demand is heading, often before a company has written a single request.
Discover capabilities
Follow what providers can do as their offer evolves.
Keep track of what providers can do as their equipment, services and expertise evolve.
Facilitate projects
From first contact to agreement and execution.
Support the engagement from first contact to agreement and execution, not just the introduction.
Learn and grow the market
Every project improves the next match and shows providers new opportunities.
Use what each project teaches us to connect needs and providers better, and to show providers where new opportunities lie.
The team
Built in Leuven, Belgium
Complementary founders with first-hand experience of the problem SuperLab is solving.
Complementary founders combining DeepTech research, product development and commercial execution, with first-hand experience of the problem SuperLab is solving.
Ani Parag
Co-founder & CEO
Commercial & Strategy
- Ph.D., Nanoelectronics (concluding), IMEC & KU Leuven
- DeepTech ecosystem & research infrastructure experience
- 2 hardware startup attempts, with interest from government and private funds
Hélène Ponsaerts
Co-founder & CTO
Product & Finance
- Ph.D., Power Systems (ongoing), VITO & KU Leuven
- Experience across research, energy startups & technology commercialization
- Founding team, Ghent Slush'D — 1200+ attendees
Get in touch
Reach us at ani@mysuperlab.net or read the FAQ.