About Us
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Your Insights
OUR TECHNOLOGY
VetNutriLab was created from a simple but consequential idea: veterinary practices should remain the trusted center of personalized nutrition and preventive wellness throughout every patient’s life.
More than a decade of veterinary insight has been transformed into practice-branded technology that helps make this possible—without requiring inventory, additional staffing or major disruption to everyday practice operations.
OUR STORY
VetNutriLab is the operating brand of Vetnexus, Inc., founded in 2016 to address a growing challenge in companion-animal healthcare: pet owners have access to more nutritional information than ever before, yet often lack clear, independent and personalized guidance from the veterinary professionals they trust.
We believed veterinary practices needed a practical way to extend nutrition and preventive wellness beyond the examination room. That belief began a decade-long development journey focused on helping practices provide more personalized guidance, maintain greater visibility into patient health between visits and strengthen lifelong relationships with their clients.
Today, VetNutriLab brings those capabilities together in one evolving platform built specifically for the companion-animal veterinary channel.
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Your Insights
OUR TECHNOLOGY
VetNutriLab was created from a simple but consequential idea: veterinary practices should remain the trusted center of personalized nutrition and preventive wellness throughout every patient’s life.
More than a decade of veterinary insight has been transformed into practice-branded technology that helps make this possible—without requiring inventory, additional staffing or major disruption to everyday practice operations.
OUR STORY
VetNutriLab is the operating brand of Vetnexus, Inc., founded in 2016 to address a growing challenge in companion-animal healthcare: pet owners have access to more nutritional information than ever before, yet often lack clear, independent and personalized guidance from the veterinary professionals they trust.
We believed veterinary practices needed a practical way to extend nutrition and preventive wellness beyond the examination room. That belief began a decade-long development journey focused on helping practices provide more personalized guidance, maintain greater visibility into patient health between visits and strengthen lifelong relationships with their clients.
Today, VetNutriLab brings those capabilities together in one evolving platform built specifically for the companion-animal veterinary channel.
YOUR INSIGHTS
VetNutriLab has been shaped by the experience of veterinary practice owners, managers, veterinarians, technicians and pet nutrition professionals. Their insights helped us understand what practices need, what clients will use and what must be avoided—including unnecessary staff work, inventory commitments and disruption to established workflows.
Those insights continue to guide our development. As nutritional science, diagnostic capabilities and patient information advance, VetNutriLab will continue expanding the depth, precision and clinical relevance of its nutrition and wellness services.
OUR TECHNOLOGY
Practice-Branded Technology Built Around the Veterinary Relationship
VetNutriLab brings personalized health assessments, evidence-based nutritional guidance, individualized diet recommendations and ongoing wellness monitoring together as a value-added service of your veterinary practice—not as an outside app clients must independently find, download or manage.
Patient Special Care gives the veterinary team practice-wide access to participating patients, health information, available services and notifications that may warrant follow-up. Pet owners connect through a convenient, practice-branded, personalized Pet Health Portal that keeps the practice at the center of their experience.
Each participating pet receives a complimentary, living Pet Health Profile™ that presents current health alongside optimal health and identifies areas where nutrition and preventive care may make a meaningful difference. Personalized recommendations and wellness guidance evolve as the pet’s age, weight, health, lifestyle and nutritional needs change.
Regular health updates help sustain client engagement and provide the practice with greater visibility into each patient’s well-being between visits. When new information identifies a potential concern, the veterinary team is notified and determines whether follow-up or an examination is appropriate.
VetNutriLab is designed to support—not replace—the veterinary team’s professional judgment and relationship with the client.
OUR MAGAGEMENT TEAM
VetNutriLab brings together leadership experience in pet and veterinary services, technology architecture, business development and company building. Our management team is responsible for transforming more than a decade of veterinary insight into a dependable and continually evolving platform for companion-animal practices.
Our Team
Paul Lien
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Chad Knudson
Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
Santosh Mahato
Technical Talent
Jackson Briath
Subscriber Support Talent
Nelson Surat
Creative Talent
Paul Hall
Advisory Board
Kyle Wilson
Advisory Board
Mike Dragosavich
Advisory Board
Justin LaGosh
Advisory Board
Bonnie Bragdon DVM, MS
Advisory Board
Meghan Cofer, CVT
Advisory Board
OUR STRATEGIC PARTNERS
VetNutriLab works with specialized organizations across veterinary diagnostics, canine genetics and epigenetic health assessment. These relationships expand the depth of our preventive-health services while keeping the veterinary practice at the center of patient care.
Our strategic partners contribute complementary expertise and capabilities that strengthen the information available to practices and support increasingly personalized nutrition and wellness guidance.
- VDI Laboratories
- Preventive and wellness diagnostic testing developed specifically for veterinary medicine.
- VetnutriDNA
- Canine DNA identification and mixed-breed insights that can help inform more individualized health and nutritional guidance.
- EpiPaws
- Epigenetic health information, including biological-age insights, that contributes another dimension to longitudinal preventive wellness.
WHAT SETS US APART
Your Practice—and Your Brand—Remain at the Center
VetNutriLab is independent, brand-agnostic and built specifically for the companion-animal veterinary channel. Our guidance is not driven by pet-food manufacturer commissions, and our services are delivered as a practice-branded extension of preventive care—not as an outside consumer platform competing for the client relationship.
The practice controls its services, recommended diet categories, pricing and client communications. VetNutriLab provides the technology, continuing development and support, while your practice remains the trusted source of guidance.
By combining personalized nutrition, preventive-wellness services, between-visit health monitoring and continuing client engagement, VetNutriLab helps practices expand patient care while creating incremental recurring revenue throughout each patient’s lifespan.
OUR PROMISE
We will make VetNutriLab practical to introduce, easy to evaluate, and worthwhile for your practice and patients. There is no upfront investment, inventory requirement or long-term obligation—and your practice always retains control of the client relationship.
