DataSpeaks builds drug development software, partners with TechTown

Years of intellectual property and software work for major organizations like Parke Davis, Dartmouth College, and Wayne State University led Curtis Bagne to entrepreneurship. He's now putting all of that institutional knowledge to work for himself with a new startup called DataSpeaks.

The 1-year-old firm has created software that helps improve and streamline the drug development process. The Troy-based company has been working with TechTown to perfect the technology, which Bagne expects to roll out soon.

"The patents have been issued and we have software that is ready for demonstrations," says Bagne, DataSpeaks' founder and chief science officer. "We don't have a commercially ready product quite yet."

DataSpeaks' business plan calls for landing some seed capital over the next few months so it can finish perfecting its new technology. Within the next year, he hopes to have signed on some pharmaceutical companies to test it out and begin developing it to help with doctors' switch to electronic records.

"I'd like to get some key companies and individuals involved with advancing the technology," Bagne says.

Source: Curtis Bagne, founder and chief science officer for DataSpeaks
Writer: Jon Zemke

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