Rebeca Sanchez Sarmiento joins Insightful Science and Dotmatics as Chief Financial Officer
Appointment brings extensive financial industry experience to drive global growth and build corporate value of newly combined organization that is aiming to make the world a healthier, cleaner and better place to live
San Diego, CA and Bishop’s Stortford, UK, 17 November 2021 —Insightful Science, the world’s most widely adopted software platform for scientific R&D and collaboration, today announced it has appointed Rebeca Sanchez Sarmiento as Chief Financial Officer of Insightful Science and Dotmatics, as they continue to scale and strengthen the senior leadership team of the recently combined global organization.
With her early career carved on Wall Street as a sell-side equity research analyst at Deutsche Bank and Citigroup, Sanchez Sarmiento has extensive experience across corporate strategy, FP&A and investor relations in both private equity-backed and publicly traded companies. Sanchez Sarmiento joins the Company from previous CFO positions at InvestCloud and ATTOM Data Solutions where she led several transformative mergers and acquisitions, multiple capital raises and two significant corporate restructurings, most notably InvestCloud’s $1 billion recapitalization earlier this year. She brings to Insightful Science and Dotmatics a wealth of enterprise SaaS experience and a proven ability to drive scalable, sustainable growth through strategic leadership, operational insights, and financial transparency, all of which will support the Company’s ambitious plans.
In her new role, Sanchez Sarmiento will focus on driving value by developing an integrated shared service environment necessary to systematically scale and promote cohesion across all functions to support the organization’s M&A growth strategy. Additionally, she will be responsible for further building the finance and accounting organization, including instituting robust corporate governance and controls commensurate with public company standards in readiness for a potential IPO.
Rebeca Sanchez Sarmiento, Chief Financial Officer at Insightful Science and Dotmatics, commented: “I was drawn to Insightful Science as a mission-driven company focused on advancing scientific innovation to improve lives. This vision has helped to propel the Company on a phenomenal trajectory, fueled by positive market momentum and impressive customer growth. Working with the team, I am confident in our ability to further build on this success and add even more value to our customers, industry and science.”
Thomas Swalla, CEO of Insightful Science, added: “Rebeca is a true asset to our team. She has a proven track record with invaluable wall street and financial industry experience. Under her strategic direction, we are building a company that can sustain immense scale through both organic and inorganic growth. We are excited about the combined expertise of our growing senior team that will help the Company scale to unbelievable new heights.”
Mike McKee, President of Dotmatics, added: “We are thrilled to welcome Rebeca to our leadership team. Her exceptional expertise at the intersection of finance and technology is the perfect combination to build the foundation for a new decade-defining company. At this pivotal stage in the Company’s development we have the right team in place, with a shared vision to accelerate growth while helping make the world a healthier, cleaner and better place to live.”
Insightful Science is a privately held portfolio company of Insight Partners, the leading global venture capital and private equity firm investing in high-growth technology and software scale-up companies.
For further information, please visit insightfulscience.com and dotmatics.com.
About Insightful Science www.insightfulscience.com
Insightful Science is a scientific software company that is leveraging the Cloud for Scientific Discovery. From developing new personalized and preventive patient treatment solutions to reversing climate change — it is the world’s most widely adopted software platform for R&D and collaboration with more than 5,000 customers and two million researchers at leading life science, biopharma and chemical and materials enterprises trusting Insightful Science products to make the world a healthier, cleaner, and better place to live. Products within the Insightful Science portfolio were built by prominent scientists, and include GraphPad Prism, Geneious Prime and Geneious Biologics, Dotmatics, BioBright, SnapGene, nQuery, Cytapex, and more.
Visit www.insightfulscience.com for more information about the company and its products.
About Dotmatics Ltd. www.dotmatics.com
Dotmatics is a scientific informatics software and services company that is driving the automation of laboratory workflows for discovery and innovation research – accelerating the journey towards full digitalization and the Lab of the Future.
With a mission to give scientists access to all of their data, all of the time, Dotmatics provides a unique portfolio of tools for fully automated, end-to-end workflows including data acquisition, knowledge management, data storage, enterprise querying and reporting, and data analytics and visualization. Through these comprehensive solutions, the Company is helping its customers to increase lab efficiency and make better informed decisions driven by all data.
Dotmatics’ customers include many of the world’s leading pharmaceutical, biotechnology, contract research, chemicals and materials companies. Insight into the challenges faced by these organizations enables Dotmatics to focus on delivering versatile and intuitive products and services that have potential to turn around the productivity deficit in research and accelerate development of novel drug candidates or products.
Dotmatics was founded in 2005 by two scientists from Merck Pharmaceuticals (MSD). Since then, it has built a strong and profitable business and in 2020 acquired BioBright, a Boston-based company automating secure data collection and analysis from laboratory and biomanufacturing environments. Dotmatics is now an expert team of over 300 scientists, software developers and engineers, and project managers. The Company is headquartered in the UK with offices in USA, Korea and Japan.
In April 2021, Dotmatics was acquired by Insightful Science and combined, are now the world’s largest cloud-based scientific research R&D platform.

