Clarus Labs is an early-stage analytical technology company building a portable instrument-and-kit platform for rapid, quantitative oxidation testing across meat, pet food, and ingredient systems. Our goal is to help food and ingredient teams make faster quality and shelf-life decisions without relying on slower, centralized lab workflows.
Clarus Labs is commercializing a rapid, on-site oxidation testing workflow built around a portable instrument, consumable testing kits, and software-driven quantitative analysis. The platform is being developed to deliver lab-grade oxidation data in about 15 minutes across commercially relevant food and ingredient sample classes.
Current customer discovery and collaborator work indicate the strongest near-term fit for antioxidant suppliers, researchers, and validation-focused users that perform frequent oxidation testing and can help establish external credibility before broader expansion into ingredient suppliers, pet food manufacturers, meat manufacturers, and testing laboratories.
Deliver rapid, reliable, and accessible on-site chemical testing that enables faster quality decisions, beginning with oxidation testing across food and ingredient systems.
Make point-of-need chemical analysis a practical, trusted workflow across food and ingredient systems, then expand into additional high-value assays on the same platform over time.
Clarus Labs is led by a lean team combining scientific depth, method-development experience, customer discovery, and early commercialization execution.
Chief Executive Officer
Ph.D. in Chemistry, MBA; Founder and CEO of Clarus Labs; co-inventor of the technology. Max leads company strategy, fundraising, customer discovery, commercialization planning, software development, and broader technical direction. He has led more than 200 customer discovery interviews and secured more than $374K in non-dilutive funding for the company.
Lead Research Scientist
Ph.D. in Chemistry; current NSF STTR Principal Investigator. Oluwatosin leads assay validation, technical development, and day-to-day execution of the platform’s R&D roadmap, with experience spanning analytical chemistry, food chemistry, biosensing, spectroscopy, and cross-matrix method development.
Business Development (Part-Time)
MBA candidate with experience in federal budgeting, forecasting, and operational analysis. Nicholas supports strategic partnerships, go-to-market execution, and broader commercialization planning.
Clarus Labs is supported by advisors and collaborators spanning scientific validation, optics, instrumentation, commercialization, manufacturing, and industry access.
