ParallX

The infrastructure for your next breakthrough is already built.ParallX helps you reach it without the collateral drama.

ParallX is the bridge to India's research infrastructure. We ensure every work reaches the exact infrastructure and expertise required to test it. Every development deserves to see its full potential. We just handle the friction of getting you through.

Register your interest

Expected opening by January 2027. Registering costs nothing and commits you to nothing.

Why we are building this

Your development shouldn't stall over a missing introduction.

Research access has always run on relationships. A colleague makes an introduction, a guide makes a call, a door opens. It is a human system that feels good when you are inside the loop. But once you are on the outside without those relationships, it is tough.

Nothing here is broken, and everything happening is natural. But when we are chasing excellence, the natural way slows us down.

Finding it

No single place tells you which lab near you has the instrument, whether it is working, and whether they would be open to sharing it.

Reaching it

Access moves through people. If you are new, independent, or outside the institute, relying on the usual process creates inevitable friction.

Keeping pace

Introductions, approvals, and paperwork turn one afternoon of measurement into several weeks. The work does not stop. It slows down, and then it stalls.

The catalogue is not the problem. Reachability is.

India's research capacity is already documented on government and institute portals. You can look up exactly where a machine lives. But a directory is not access. Listings are rarely updated to show real-time availability. Finding a machine online is easy, but without knowing the right person, getting on the actual schedule stays theoretical.

~25,000 instruments
Already catalogued across more than 1,800 institutions on I-STEM. The inventory is public, but a listed machine does not mean a working or available machine. The pathway to actually use the equipment remains closed.
Source: istem.gov.in
51.8% of R&D is private
India's research spending is now majority private. That means the half driving the most investment has the least systemic access to the infrastructure.
Source: DST, R&D Statistics 2025-26 (2023-24 figure)

How it will work

You bring the question. We carry everything else.

You should not need to know any department's internal politics or anybody's cousin. You only need to know the parameters of your measurement. We sit in the middle and absorb the friction.

You bring
  • The device, or simply what you need to find out
  • The parameters of your measurement
  • Whether you need raw data or a complete report

SEEKERS

Startups : Teams : Researchers

ParallX

PROVIDERS

Institutes : Labs : Experts

What ParallX handles
Discovery
Negotiation
NDA & IP
Payments
Logistics
Verifications
Records

Three inputs from you. Everything between them and your result is ours to carry.

Designed for launch in January 2027. Right now we are talking to the teams whose needs decide which instruments come on first.

What we are actually building

An instrument is the first thing you need. It is rarely the only thing.

Access to a machine solves an afternoon. What moves work forward is everything around it. It is the person who has run that measurement a hundred times. It is the group down the corridor stuck on the same problem. It is the visibility that turns a lab from a stranger into a collaborator. ParallX is built to carry all of it.

Access

Instruments and facilities become reachable without needing a personal contact.

Expertise

Connect with the people who operate the machines and have already solved what you are stuck on.

Visibility

Labs see who needs their capacity, and teams see what exists around them. Both sides stop guessing.

Transparency

Clear rates, clear terms, and clear ownership of what you produce. Everything is agreed upon in writing before anything starts.

One instrument would have answered it. We just didn't know anyone who had one.

Time and again, I have watched brilliant hardware projects stall simply because a team couldn't secure a single afternoon on the right measurement tool. Without the right institutional network, you are forced to slow down, wait, and lose momentum.

ParallX exists so that a missing introduction is never the reason a good idea stalls.

Sidharth Raj, founder

Early access

Tell us what you need access to.

We are talking to research groups, deep-tech teams, and labs before we open, so that the first instruments we bring on are the ones people actually need. Tell us what you have struggled to access. Your answer directly shapes what gets built first.

We will not add you to a mailing list. No newsletters, no marketing, no drip campaigns. You will hear from us when there is something you can actually use, and not otherwise.

We collect only what is on this form and use it only to contact you about ParallX. Reply to any email from us and we will remove you.

If you run a lab or manage a facility, register here too. We are building the provider side in parallel, and the earliest conversations shape it most.

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Thank you. We will come back to you before we open, and sooner if we find an instrument that matches what you described.

Anything urgent, write to info@parallx.in.