Thrive Bioscience (thrivebio.com), located in the Greater Boston Area, manufactures and sells to researchers a family of instruments with extensive software tools that provide previously unavailable live cell imaging, analytics, and automation for reproducible cell culture and breakthrough insights.Thrive's products enable biologists to deliver reproducible cell culture and experiment results by leveraging microscopy, robotics, and fluidics to automatically capture and build a database of terabytes of high-resolution images and data. The principal markets are drug discovery, drug development, regenerative medicine, basic research, and infectious disease research.Thrive currently sells the CellAssist, a benchtop instrument for imaging and analysis of live cells, to pharmaceutical and biotech companies and research institutes. The company has begun delivery of the CellAssist 50, which combines the CellAssist with a 50-plate automated incubator. The company was founded in 2014, has financial banking from leading industry veterans, and has collaborations with many leading academic institutions.