NextMove Software was founded in 2011 to develop next-generation cheminformatics solutions to pharmaceutical industry problems. The company is located on the Cambridge Science Park in the United Kingdom. NextMove Software develops and markets scientific informatics software solutions for pharmaceutical and life sciences companies. Its unique products complement other vendors' offerings, covering areas such as: ELN and reaction informatics; patent (chemical) text mining; peptide, oligosaccharide and biologics informatics; 2D chemical similarity; matched molecular series and ELN chemical hazard alerting. NextMove Software’s products are used by 8 out of the top 12 pharma companies. In addition, to its commercial operations, NextMove Software’s employees also contribute to several open source cheminformatics projects, including RDKit, HELM, CDK, Open Babel and OPSIN.