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| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Life Sciences |
| Founded | 2008 |
| Headquarters | Santa Monica, California, USA |
| Revenue | Start-up |
| Employees | ~10 |
| Website | www.theweavergroup.com |
The Weaver Group is a private data management software company headquartered in Santa Monica, California. The company employs approximately 10 people, with customer and development facilities located in Fort Wayne, Indiana and Philippi, West Virginia.
The Weaver Group markets to laboratories, food processors, environmental testing companies, and the chemical and pharmaceutical industries: laboratory information management system, inventory management, and laboratory informatics.
The business was started by Michael (Mike) Weaver as Weaver Enterprises in a spare room of his home in Roanoke, Indiana, in 2008.
Weaver graduated from Eastern Mennonite University in 1996 with a B.A. degree in Biology and Chemistry. While attaining his B.A. degree, he served as a laboratory research assistant at Penn State Medical School in the area of Cardiology, specifically sympathetic nerve activity to quantitatively mark changes between male vs. female, sleep apnea, exercise and weightlessness categories.[1] Upon graduation, Weaver was recruited by a major pharmaceutical which started a career with various stints as a lab chemist, lab info system manager, quality & regulatory lead, and entrepreneur. Weaver formed Weaver Enterprises in 2008. The fledgling firm’s first office was a home office located in Roanoke, Indiana.
During the first year, Weaver Enterprise updated the corporate identity and incorporated as The Weaver Group, Inc. It provided mainly consulting services, animation & mobile technology to consumers and clients. Companies would contract The Weaver Group and his one employee to provide expert information system configuration, selection and workflow advice for various purposes. The company also created unique, animated content for children under the alias Wow Munchkin Wow Munchkin which lead to early research into wide area network data transmission and mobile technology. Early products included mobile applications such as, a video podcast viewer, a toddler learning movie and mobile content readers for iPhone and Android. From its inception the company had been self-financed but with the enormous potential seen in the data management world for similarly driven mobile content, Weaver sought outside capital in 2010 to begin full blown research into this area. The Weaver Group was the world's first cross platform data management software as a service SaaS for the regulated industry.[2]
The company’s first investment pitch was well received and approved before the presentation had completed. Mike Albertson, made an initial investment in The Weaver Group in late 2010 and the company moved full force into product development. The company released its first product for Test data management on March 1, 2011. Its unique cross platform design makes it the first PC, Mac, Android, iOS, and BlackBerry friendly software for the regulated environment.[3][4][5]
In 2010, The Weaver Group appointed several senior staff officers and headquarters were moved to Santa Monica, California. In April 2011 Mike Weaver wrote an article for Contract Pharma Magazine[6] titled "The Laboratory Data Revolution".
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