The grit42 company #

What does the 42 in your name mean? #

The author Douglas Adams wrote “Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy” in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy before developing it into a “trilogy” of five books! As part of the story a computer gives the answer to the “ultimate question for life the universe and everything” – and it’s 42! If you haven’t discovered the guide yet – and likely you haven’t as you ask the question – go explore. It’s great fun.

What does grit mean? #

Within psychology grit is a positive trait. It signals passion for long term goals and perseverance. As data management is more a marathon than a sprint these are values we can relate to. It’s also a combination of “grid” and “it”. As we offer software (IT) as a hosted solution and hence customers can get up and running quickly – like getting power from the electricity grid – combining them into grit made sense.

What do you know about research data management? #

A lot! The 4 founders of grit42 were the core part of the internal Research Informatics department in a Danish Pharma company for 15 years. We also have a very diverse team with expertise from relevant different areas like Pharma, computer science, bioinformatics and mathematics.

Do you have any customers? #

Yes! We have customers of very different sizes – from small biotech, over research institutions to middle size pharma companies – using different parts of the grit42 platform and apps.

We also take part in several large public-private partnership projects with several big pharma companies under the IMI and IHI EU programmes