After collecting $300 million across two venture capital rounds last year, R&D cloud software developer Benchling is starting to spend some of that cash by making its first acquisition. The company ...

After picking up $200 million just over six months ago, Benchling isn’t sitting still. The cloud-based R&D platform developer collected another $100 million to help power its global expansion plans.

Sajith Wickramasekara, Benchling’s CEO and co-founder. Eight months after enabling its R&D cloud to support FDA-regulated work done in later stages of biopharma product development, Benchling has ...