Phizzle
Founded 2005 · 33 employees on LinkedIn · 4 known investors
Phizzle offers a platform that connects analytical scientific instruments and workflows directly to digital systems such as LIMS, MES, and QMS, replacing paper-based methods and manual data entry. It serves regulated manufacturers seeking data integrity, compliance (including 21 CFR Part 11 and AS9100), and automated, audit-ready scientific workflows.
Also known as Phizzle, Inc.
Investors · 4
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Company profile
researched Aug 2026Phizzle, Inc. is a San Francisco, California-based software company that digitizes scientific workflows in regulated manufacturing environments. Its Connected Plant platform communicates with multi-vendor, multi-type analytical instruments in their native protocols, standardizes sample results through a data formatting engine, and synchronizes contextualized data with existing digital systems such as LIMS, MES, ELN, ERP and QMS without requiring changes to customer SOPs. The stated aim is to replace pen-and-paper data collection, multi-step manual data entry SOPs and middleware in cleanrooms, labs and production sites.
The product line includes the Edge Puck, a compact, cleanable, battery-powered and malware-hardened IoT gateway designed for cleanrooms that uses outbound-only communication, converts legacy instruments into connected data nodes, and continues capturing data during network or power failures, syncing once connectivity is restored. Phizzle also sells a library of pre-built instrument connectors offered in two tiers, ranging from validated data extraction to fully automated sample initiation and format standardization, plus remote instrument management, searchable time-stamped audit logs, chain-of-custody tracking and built-in 21 CFR Part 11 electronic review and signature workflows.
The company originated in a different line of business: founded in 2006, Phizzle was previously an engagement/mobile marketing software company running interactive campaigns such as text-to-vote contests for sports and media clients, before transitioning from consumer data to IoT machine data and edge computing.
Founding story
Ben Davis founded Phizzle in 2006 after a decade in enterprise sales at companies including Xerox, Parametric Technology and EMC, and after co-founding mobile game developer Pixiem in 2003, which was acquired by WinWin Gaming in 2005. Davis previously played professional basketball in Europe and holds a BA in Business from Walsh University.
Business model
Phizzle sells an enterprise software and edge-hardware platform to regulated manufacturers, combining the Connected Plant cloud/edge platform, the Edge Puck gateway and per-instrument connectors. The company has described holding a recurring revenue contract with a Fortune 75 company.
Recurring revenue contracts for its instrument digitization platform; the company cited a recurring revenue contract with a Fortune 75 customer in its 2022 crowdfunding offering materials.
Traction
Phizzle cites a customer among the top three pharmaceutical companies saving about $1.5 million annually in labor costs (roughly $4,800 per instrument) across three production sites and 310 air particle counters, with an 80% reduction in failure reports. Its customer success team is described as having served over 300 clients. In its earlier marketing business the company reported powering more than 8,000 mobile, social and digital campaigns per day for clients such as Madison Square Garden, the Brooklyn Nets, the Cleveland Cavaliers, Learfield Sports, NESN and MASN.
Latest developments
Phizzle announced a partnership with LabWare to eliminate manual instrument data transfer in pharmaceutical cleanroom labs. In June 2025 it announced the launch of a malware-hardened, purpose-built computer inside an IoT edge gateway to format and normalize data from devices and machines. In December 2024 Climet Instruments Company, a division of Venturedyne Ltd, named Phizzle an authorized software partner alongside a joint TCO/ROI value proposition for pharma manufacturing.
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Market position
The company presents itself as a market leader and first-mover in automating and digitizing scientific lab instruments for pharma and other clean manufacturing environments, a market in which it says most instruments remain unconnected to cloud data-harmonization systems.
Phizzle positions its pre-built connectors as comprehensive device agents that handle vendor-specific communication idiosyncrasies and enable remote operation, rather than basic data extraction; the Edge Puck is described as a purpose-built, cleanable, malware-hardened gateway for cleanrooms that keeps instruments off the network while preserving data during outages. The company describes itself as a first mover with a patented cloud-based multi-vendor instrument operation solution and FDA-compliant use case.
Technology
A microservices architecture in which instrument connectors handle device communication, data capture and automated formatting; a core platform managing APIs, databases and MQTT messaging; and integration APIs that synchronize data with LIMS, MES and QMS. The Edge Puck provides server-grade edge computing with local storage of instrument data and workflows, outbound-only communication to avoid exposing open instrument ports, and continued monitoring and batch sampling during connectivity failures. The company describes its IoT solution for remotely operating multiple types and vendors of lab instruments from the cloud as patented.
Go-to-market
Direct sales supported by demo requests, published case studies and content resources, plus partnerships with instrument and laboratory-software vendors including LabWare and Climet, the latter naming Phizzle an authorized software partner. Executives have also appeared at IoT and industry events including the IEEE World Forum on the Internet of Things.
Regulated manufacturers, including pharmaceutical manufacturing and cleanroom labs, water and utilities operators, food production, and aerospace manufacturers with compliance obligations under 21 CFR Part 11, AS9100, NADCAP, HACCP, the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Clean Water Act and EPA reporting.
Geography
Headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
History
Founded in 2006 in San Francisco as a mobile and engagement marketing software business serving sports and media clients such as the NBA, Madison Square Garden and Fox, Phizzle was named by Forbes as one of America's Most Promising Companies in 2012 and 2013 and raised a $4.9 million Series B in November 2013. Under CEO Ben Davis the company shifted from consumer data to IoT machine data and edge computing, and by 2022 was marketing a patented cloud-based platform for operating and digitizing pharmaceutical and cleanroom lab instruments. It ran an equity crowdfunding offering on StartEngine that closed in March 2023, announced a partnership with cleanroom instrument maker Climet in December 2024, launched an edge gateway product in June 2025, and later announced a partnership with LabWare.
Risks & controversies
The company's 2022 StartEngine equity crowdfunding offering carried standard disclosures that the investment is speculative, illiquid and involves a high degree of risk including possible loss of the entire investment. Phizzle has also undergone a substantial pivot from engagement marketing to industrial IoT, and several of its performance claims (cost savings, FDA-compliance first) are company-stated.
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Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Timeline · 5
launches, deals, and filingsPhizzle announced it would launch on June 10, 2025 what it described as a technical first for the IoT edge: a purpose-built computer inside a gateway, malware-hardened, to format and normalize data from any device or machine in edge use cases.
LabWare and Phizzle announced a partnership to eliminate manual instrument data transfer in pharmaceutical cleanroom laboratories.
Climet Instruments Company of Redlands, California, a division of Venturedyne Ltd and a manufacturer of pharmaceutical-grade cleanroom instruments, announced Phizzle as an authorized software partner, along with a first joint TCO/ROI value proposition for pharma manufacturing.
Phizzle ran an equity crowdfunding offering on StartEngine (2022 round) selling common stock at $0.40 per share with a stated valuation of $78.29M, a funding goal range of $10K-$5M and a deadline of March 16, 2023; the offering is listed as closed.
Phizzle was named by Forbes Magazine as one of America's Most Promising Companies in 2012 and 2013.
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In the news
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Phizzle do?
- Phizzle connects analytical lab instruments to LIMS, MES and QMS systems for paperless, compliant workflows in regulated manufacturing.
- Who are Phizzle's investors?
- Phizzle's investors include Alsop Louie Partners, Hillcrest Venture Partners.