Sample-Management Reinvented

No more sample chaos.

CurioVault tracks your biological samples end to end — from the freezer down to the individual box position. Visual, mobile, with a complete audit trail. Instead of endless Excel sheets where nobody can find anything anymore.

Academic Edition

Biobank software on a university budget.

Real sample management for your research group — visual storage, chain of custody and a GDPR audit trail from €99/month. No enterprise LIMS price tag, no paper chaos.

Professional & Enterprise

Compliance-ready. Without the LIMS price.

21 CFR Part 11-ready, an EU GMP Annex 11 foundation, e-signatures, a WORM audit trail and on-premise data sovereignty — with IQ/OQ documentation as an add-on. For GxP-adjacent research that can face inspections calmly.

Personal intro call · no sales pressure · unlimited users on all commercial plans
21 CFR Part 11-ready GDPR-compliant MFA & e-signatures 14 languages
CURIO · Freezer A → Rack 3 → Box 12
Box 12 — 9×9Occupancy 67%
occupied maintenance evacuated free
Sound familiar?

Managing samples feels like managing chaos

As long as your storage lives in Excel sheets and people’s heads, every search, every freezer failure and every inspection costs time and nerves.

“Where exactly is sample X?”

Samples scattered across spreadsheets — nobody reliably finds the right freezer, rack or position.

Freezer failure = panic

During a failure or relocation there is no overview: what to evacuate first, where to, with which origin?

Audit or inspection? Stress.

Without complete proof of who changed what and when, every review turns into a reconstruction exercise.

Old samples clog the freezer

Without a review process nobody knows what to keep, use up or dispose of.

The new standard

Three things Curio does differently

Spatial & visual

Real 2D layouts instead of lists: building → freezer → rack → box → position. NxN grid with occupancy and drag & drop — even across boxes and freezers.

Compliance-ready

Append-only audit trail, e-signatures (password, passkey, biometrics), MFA/TOTP and GDPR export/erasure — building blocks of expensive enterprise LIMS.

Mobile & global

Installable PWA with web push, touch-optimised, in 14 languages. One tool for international consortia — everyone in their own language.

The platform

Everything between sample and proof

Live and in use — not on a roadmap.

Visual storage

Complete hierarchy down to the position, NxN grid, occupancy, drag-and-drop relocation.

Freezer failure

Guided evacuation assistant with origin tracking and maintenance mode.

Excel/CSV import

Wizard with column detection, mapping, preview and validation.

Sample lifecycle

Create, store/retrieve, withdraw, review (12/24/36 months), recycle bin with retention.

Temperature monitoring

30-day history, CSV logger upload and excursion tracking.

Reports & analytics

Unused samples, missing metadata, occupancy, excursions, activity — at a glance.

Compliance suite

Append-only audit trail, e-signatures, MFA/TOTP, GDPR export & crypto-shredding.

Roles & permissions

Capability matrix with organisation-specific roles and user management.

Maintenance & service

Maintenance plans, checklists, inspection report export, service partner management.

Security & compliance

Built for inspection day

The compliance features are built as a full superset — your plan unlocks what you need. All technically implemented.

21 CFR Part 11-ready

E-signatures & append-only audit trail as a live foundation, on every plan.

EU-GMP Annex 11

Electronic records & signatures — EU scope first.

GDPR-compliant

Access & portability (Art. 15/20), erasure via crypto-shredding (Art. 17).

MFA, passkeys & headers

TOTP, WebAuthn/passkeys, encryption in transit & at rest, HSTS/CSP — on every plan.

ALCOA+ chain of custody

Complete sample history with server-side timestamps.

IQ/OQ & GAMP 5

Validation documentation as an add-on — included with Enterprise/XL.

Legal notice: “ready” or “supported” means technically implemented — not “certified”. CurioVault is research use only (inventory and storage management, no diagnostic purpose; not a medical device under MDR/IVDR).
Is Curio right for you?

A clear yes if…

Your samples live in sprawling Excel sheets nobody can make sense of anymore.
You want to see at a glance which position in which box is occupied.
A freezer failure should be a guided process, not an emergency.
You need a clean audit trail without buying an enterprise LIMS.
Your research group needs real software, but the budget is academic.
You want chain of custody & a GDPR audit trail without an IT project.
Rotating PhD students should understand the storage without training.
Cloud hosting and community/email support are all you need.
You work close to GxP and need 21 CFR Part 11 & Annex 11 building blocks.
Data sovereignty is a must — on-premise deployment has to be possible.
You want IQ/OQ documentation and dedicated support with an SLA.
Several sites should be managed under one roof.
Pricing

Billed by sample volume only

Users are unlimited on all commercial plans — you pay for samples, not seats. All prices net, per year.

Enterprise / XL

Multi-site, IQ/OQ included, patient data scope
from €49,000 / year
project-based · cloud / on-prem
  • Everything in Professional
  • Multi-site management
  • IQ/OQ documentation included
  • Dedicated support / SLA
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Professional

Compliance line: GxP, on-prem, single site
€19,800 / year
cloud / on-premise
  • Everything in Standard
  • GxP-compliant & Annex 11
  • Unlimited freezers & sites
  • 1.65 million samples included
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Standard

Research only · 560,000 samples (8 packs) · 10 freezers
€5,880 / year
= €490/month paid annually · monthly €588
  • Everything in Starter
  • Advanced roles & reports
  • API / integrations
  • Daily backups · priority support
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Starter

Research only, cloud · 70,000 samples (1 pack) · 2 freezers
€1,788 / year
= €149/month paid annually · monthly €179
  • Visual storage & emergency protocol
  • Temperature history & barcode/QR
  • Audit trail · unlimited users
  • Email support
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Starter Academic

70,000 samples · 5 users · 2 freezers
€1,188 / year
= €99/month paid annually · monthly €119
  • Visual storage & emergency protocol
  • GDPR audit trail
  • Cloud · community · 14 languages
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Standard Academic

560,000 samples · 8 users · 10 freezers
€3,948 / year
= €329/month paid annually · monthly €395
  • Everything in Starter Academic
  • More capacity & freezers
  • Community support
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Extension-Pack

Grows with you — +70,000 samples each
+€564 / pack
on every Academic plan
  • +70,000 active samples
  • No plan change needed
  • Same features as the base plan
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Academic Edition – for publicly funded universities and research institutions, ordered through the institution. Hospitals with patient care, contract research and industry-funded projects use the commercial plans. In our first conversation we work out together which plan fits.

Annual billing = 2 months free Extension pack (+70,000): +€840 (commercial) IQ/OQ add-on from €11,900 Start after a personal intro call
How to get started

Live in three steps

1

Intro call

In a short qualification call we work out together whether — and which — plan fits your lab. No sales pressure.

2

Onboarding & import

Assisted onboarding: we map your storage and import your legacy data with the Excel/CSV wizard, including validation.

3

Live & under control

Your team works mobile and visually — with an audit trail from the first minute.

What labs ask us

Answers to common concerns

“Excel is good enough for us.”
Until the first freezer failure or audit. Excel knows no position, no origin, no complete audit trail. Curio makes your storage visible at a glance — and every change traceable.
“A LIMS is too expensive and too heavy for us.”
That is exactly what Curio is for: the key compliance building blocks of expensive legacy LIMS — from €99/month (academic) or €149/month (commercial), mobile-first and ready in minutes.
“How secure is our data?”
Encryption in transit (TLS) and at rest, MFA/TOTP, passkeys/WebAuthn, security headers and an append-only audit trail — all live. On-premise on request for full data sovereignty.
“What does research use only mean?”
Curio is an inventory and storage management system for research — not a medical device under MDR/IVDR and not intended for diagnostic purposes. Compliance features are “ready”, meaning technically implemented but not certified.
“Is migrating from Excel a lot of work?”
No. The import wizard detects columns, guides you through mapping, shows a preview and validates the data. With assisted onboarding we walk you through it.

End your sample chaos

Book a no-obligation demo call and see in 20 minutes what your storage looks like in Curio. We will get back to you personally.

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