Symyx Technologies

Symyx Technologies
IndustryLife Sciences; Chemical and Energy and Performance; Materials and Consumer Products
Founded1994; 30 years ago (1994)
Successor
  • Spinoff: Freestate, Inc.
  • Merged: Accelrys
HeadquartersSanta Clara, CA United States
Key people
Isy Goldwasser, CEO
Steven D. Goldby, Executive Chairman
Rex S. Jackson, Executive Vice President and General Counsel
W. Henry Weinberg PhD, Executive Vice President and CTO
Luigi Berini CEO of Symyx Technologies Europe
ProductsElectronic lab notebook and R&D execution and analysis software, lab automation and breakthrough materials technology
Number of employees
400
Websiteaccelrys.com//

Symyx Technologies, Inc. was a company that specialized in informatics and automation products. Symyx provided software solutions for scientific research, including Enterprise Laboratory Notebooks and products for combinatorial chemistry. The software part of the business became part of Accelrys, Inc. in 2010 and then in 2014 this company merged with Dassault Systèmes. Symyx also offered laboratory robotics systems for performing automated chemical research, which in 2010 was spun out as Freeslate, Inc.