KATANA helps biopharma and translational research teams get there faster – with an AI-native platform and scientific experts in one partnership.
Faster insights. Better decisions. Accelerated research.
KATANA is a TechBio company from Dresden, Germany. We combine an AI-native cloud platform, KATANA edge, with dedicated scientific services – supporting biopharma companies, CROs, and research teams across the entire spatial analysis workflow, from whole-slide imaging data to results that inform biomarker, translational, and cohort studies.
Biological intelligence: three questions your spatial data should answer.
Spatial omics only creates value when it answers three questions: What is happening in the tissue? How robust is the evidence? And what should we investigate next?
KATANA combines AI, spatial analysis, and scientific expertise to answer exactly these questions – so your team moves from data to evidence to the next decision.
The challenge has changed
Spatial proteomics, spatial transcriptomics, multiplex imaging, and digital pathology generate datasets of increasing size and complexity. The bottleneck is no longer generating data. It is turning data into evidence – consistently, at scale, and in a form your team can review and defend.
Research teams need to:
- Process large whole-slide and high-plex datasets without building new
- Ensure consistent analysis across samples, cohorts, sites, and studies.
- Keep AI-supported results reviewable and biologically plausible.
- Connect analytical outputs to concrete translational and clinical questions.
KATANA was built to close exactly this gap.
From Complexity to Clarity
Instead of another isolated tool, you get one integrated environment for processing, analyzing, reviewing, sharing, and interpreting spatial data. KATANA edge provides the platform and automated workflows; our scientific services provide the expertise – from designing the analysis to interpreting the results.
AI-native platform
Automate and scale spatial image analysis through browser-based workflows designed for large, multidimensional tissue datasets.
Scientific expertise
Work directly with specialists in image analysis, machine learning, computational biology, and spatial tissue profiling.
Decision-ready results
Receive standardized outputs, transparent workflows, and reports designed to support your next research decision.
What changes with KATANA
KATANA reduces the technical and analytical effort between data generation and scientific interpretation, so your team can focus on the questions that move your research program forward.
Access insights faster
Automated workflows reduce the time and manual effort needed to process, segment, quantify, and explore complex spatial datasets.
Build a stronger basis for decisions
Scientifically grounded models, integrated QA/QC, transparent analytical workflows, and reviewable results support confident research decisions.
Standardize your workflows
Apply consistent analysis pipelines across samples, cohorts, studies, sites, and imaging platforms.
Scale your research without scaling technical overhead
Process large whole-slide images and cohort-scale datasets in the cloud — without dedicated servers, GPUs, or software installations.
Built around your scientific questions
KATANA supports spatial tissue profiling from early discovery to translational development. Three areas where our platform and services create the most value:
Biomarker discovery and validation
From exploratory signals to reproducible spatial evidence. Identify and characterize candidate biomarkers using marker expression, morphology, tissue architecture, and spatial context – then validate them across tissues, cohorts, and studies.
Translational research and treatment response
Connect tissue biology to translational decisions. Characterize disease biology, treatment response, and tissue-level mechanisms by combining single-cell measurements with their spatial and histopathological context.
Cohort-scale spatial analysis
Consistent analysis across entire cohorts and studies. Compare biological patterns across samples, cohorts, sites, and imaging platforms — without rebuilding the workflow for each study.
The technology behind the intelligence
an AI-native cloud platform for spatial tissue profiling.
KATANA edge provides an integrated, browser-based environment for visualizing, analyzing, interpreting, sharing, and exporting complex spatial imaging data – from image upload and QA/QC to segmentation, phenotyping, spatial analytics, and collaborative exploration.
Our scientific services complement the platform: spatial omics image analysis, cohort-scale analytics, QA/QC, biomarker analytics, custom AI workflows, and scientific consulting – delivered by the same experts who help you interpret the results.
Partnership starts with people
KATANA is a cross-functional team at the intersection of AI, software development, biology, and medicine. When you work with us, you work directly with these people – not with an anonymous support queue.
Your next decision starts here
- Start a Pilot Project
Start a Pilot Project
Turn one dataset into your first decision-ready result. We define scope, workflow, and success criteria together – then scale if the pilot convinces you.
- Book a demo
Book a Demo
A focused session with our scientific team, built around your workflow – not a generic sales presentation.
Scientific confidence before commercial claims
Trust in spatial analysis is not created by AI claims alone. It is built through transparent methods, consistent workflows, biological plausibility, quality control, and results that can be reviewed and reproduced – in direct partnership with our scientific team.
Your next decision starts here
Katana Labs is co-financed by the European Union, from tax revenues on the basis of the budget adopted by the Saxon State Parliament, by Sächsische Aufbaubank (SAB), and by Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen (TGFS) via the TGFS Basic fund. Katana Labs is a member of Biosaxony via the leap:up accelerator.
Technology with a scientific purpose
KATANA is a TechBio company based in Dresden, Germany. We develop AI-native software and scientific services that help biopharma companies, CROs, and research teams transform complex spatial omics and tissue imaging data into actionable biological insights.
A future where biological data reaches its full potential and research teams gain the insights needed to enable new precision therapies.
More than a platform
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