Throughout its 20-year history, Addgene’s mission has been to empower scientists to advance discoveries by reducing barriers, facilitating access to high-quality research materials, tools, and resources, while also fostering scientific collaboration. The first request through Addgene in 2004 allowed the transfer of a plasmid between two academic laboratories. While Addgene is well known for facilitating research at nonprofit organizations, we have always sought to support scientists at all research institutions. In 2012, we shipped our first plasmid to an industry laboratory, and today we have almost ten thousand unique scientific tools available to industry scientists.