| Date | Title | Description |
| 06.02.2026 | Opentrons and NVIDIA Partner to Develop Physical AI for Laboratory Robotics | What You Should Know
The Partnership: Opentrons Labworks, the company behind the ubiquitous pipette robots found in labs worldwide, is partnering with NVIDIA to accelerate the development of “Physical AI.”
The Integration: By combining NVID... |
| 16.04.2024 | SOSV Closes $306M Deep Tech Fund for Human and Planetary Health | PRINCETON, N.J., April 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- SOSV, a multi-stage deep tech venture investor, today announced the close of its $306 million SOSV V fund, the firm's largest fund to date.
SOSV V will focus on deep tech startups in human and... |
| 02.02.2024 | Opentrons Unveils Protocol Library and GenAI Tools to Accelerate Lab Automation and Scale Scientific Research | The new no-code protocol library and AI-powered protocol generation tools will empower scientists with automated, easy-to-use workflows for genomics, proteomics, cell biology, and synthetic biology
Opentrons Labworks, Inc., a leader in lab ... |
| 29.06.2023 | Alfie Health Raises $2.1M for AI-Powered, Virtual Obesity Clinic | What You Should Know:
With 42 percent of Americans now struggling with obesity, doctors and their patients are looking for a sustainable approach to weight loss. Currently, prescription medications known as the GLP-1 class of anti-obesity m... |
| 22.05.2023 | Vinod Khosla Backed Unicorn Launches New AI-Enabled Lab Robot | Jon Brennan-Badal with Opentrons Flex IIIOpentrons |
| 22.05.2023 | Opentrons aims to democratize lab access with its Flex robot | Two words jumped out at me while speaking with Opentrons CEO Jon Brennan-Badal and investor Vinod Khosla: reproducibility and repeatability. These are, of course, important concepts in the world of research. They’re keys to successful exper... |
| 22.05.2023 | Opentrons Flex Lab Robot Launches to Accelerate Bioautomation Across Thousands of Life Science Experiments | Opentrons, a leader in lab automation, announces the launch of its Opentrons Flex robot, a new generation of affordable and easy-to-program liquid-handling lab robots designed to level the playing field for labs of all sizes and bring advan... |
| 28.04.2022 | How This Startup Is Using Lab Automation To Transform Life Sciences And Healthcare | Lab Testing AdobeStock_397355155 |
| 04.01.2022 | Impossible Made Inevitable: How One Global VC Firm Helps Deep Tech Founders Go Further Faster | The SOSV team SOSV |
| 27.09.2021 | Digital health news, funding roundup in the prior week; September 27 | UnitedHealthcare makes Apple Fitness available at no cost; Devoted lands $1.2 billion!
More healthtech companies are going public, but are they measuring up? A number of 2021 healthtech companies are trading below their IPO price, with redu... |
| 24.09.2021 | Opentrons Raises $200M in Series C Funding | Opentrons Labworks Inc., a NYC-based lab platform provider, raised $200M in Series C funding.
SoftBank Vision Fund 2 led the round with participation by Khosla Ventures. Other investors in Opentrons include Sands Capital, Lerer Hippeau Vent... |
| 23.09.2021 | Opentrons Scores $200M Series C Round |
NEW YORK, NY, Opentrons Labworks has announced SoftBank Vision Fund 2 has led the company's $200 million Series C investment with participation by Khosla Ventures.
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| 23.09.2021 | Daily funding roundup - September 23, 2021 | NTWRK raised $50M; Bigeye landed $45M; Meru Health secured $30
Opentrons Labworks: Opentrons Labworks is a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based robotics company focused on helping life scientists automate many of their experiments and processes. Opentrons ... |
| 23.09.2021 | Opentrons Announces $200 Million Series C Round Led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 | Today Opentrons Labworks Inc. has announced SoftBank Vision Fund 2* has led the company’s $200 million Series C investment with participation by Khosla Ventures. Opentrons will use this fundraising round to further invest in its automated l... |
| 23.09.2021 | Lab platform Opentrons closes $200M series C to build out robotics, diagnostics, cell engineering services | Life science researchers are capable of making life-changing, groundbreaking discoveries on a daily basis. That is, if they have adequate resources and aren’t spending all their time performing tedious tasks just to keep their labs running ... |
| 23.09.2021 | Lab platform Opentrons closes $200M series C to build out robotics, diagnostics, cell engineering services | Life science researchers are capable of making life-changing, groundbreaking discoveries on a daily basis. That is, if they have adequate resources and aren’t spending all their time performing tedious tasks just to keep their labs running ... |
| 03.03.2020 | labworks Raises £500k in Funding | labworks, a London, UK-based gaming startup, raised £500k in funding.
The round was led by RLC Ventures, with participation from gaming and media angel investors.
The company intends to use the funds to launch its “Netflix for voice games” ... |
| 27.09.2019 | How To Spot A Synthetic Biology Unicorn | Biotech is projected to reach $775 billion by 2024, but dozens of companies in the field of ... [+] synthetic biology are creating magical tools to go beyond that. Look here for the next unicorn. Jelena Trmčić for SynBioBeta |
| 05.08.2019 | How Biotech Startup Funding Will Change in the Next 10 Years | Back when YC was getting started about 10 years ago, Paul Graham wrote some essays that predicted the way startup fundraising would change in the next decade – accurately, it turns out. Paul Graham predicted that there would be way more sta... |
| 29.03.2018 | How a biotech robotics startup founded in a community hackerspace by a leftist activist just raised $10 million | The origins of Brooklyn’s latest well-funded startup are not what you’d expect.
Founder Will Canine came to New York to participate in the anti-capitalist protest Occupy Wall Street. He got the idea for his biotech and robotics startup from... |
| 27.03.2018 | Opentrons raises $10 million for scientists to automate lab experiments with robotics | Opentrons, a company that’s setting out to help life scientists automate many of their experiments using robotics, has raised $10 million in a seed funding round led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Lerer Hippeau Ventures, Y Comb... |
| 27.03.2018 | Opentrons raises $10 million for scientists to automate lab experiments with robotics | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Opentrons, a company that’s setting out to help l... |
| 27.03.2018 | Term Sheet — Tuesday, March 27 | BIG M&A
Good morning, Term Sheet readers. There’s a lot going on in the world of dealmaking today.
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But there’s a small twist here that may prove favorable to the deal. E... |
| 27.03.2018 | Opentrons Closes $10M in Seed Funding | Opentrons, a NYC-based lab automation company, closed a $10M seed funding.
The round was led by Khosla Ventures with participation from Lerer Hippeau Ventures, Y Combinator Continuity Fund, and Jeff Kindler, former CEO of Pfizer.
The compan... |
| 27.03.2018 | Opentrons raises $10M, rolls out $4K device to bring lab automation to the masses
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Vital Precision for Cost Reduction, QA, and Regulatory Compliance | Opentrons has raised $10 million to support its bid to upend the market for lab automation devices. Backed by Khosla Ventures and ex-Pfizer CEO Jeff Kindler, the Y Combinator graduate is introducing a $4,000 robot that performs the well pla... |
| 27.03.2018 | Opentrons Raises $10M Seed Funding | Opentrons, the company making lab automation accessible, today announced the launch of its newest lab robot, OT-2 and new no-code Protocol Designer. The OT-2 release is supported by the close of a $10M seed funding round, led by Khosla Vent... |
| 27.03.2018 | Opentrons raises $10M, rolls out $4K device to bring lab automation to the masses | Opentrons has raised $10 million to support its bid to upend the market for lab automation devices. Backed by Khosla Ventures and ex-Pfizer CEO Jeff Kindler, the Y Combinator graduate is introducing a $4,000 robot that performs the well pla... |
| 03.10.2016 | Fifty Years — The new Silicon Valley VC that wants to save the world AND make money | “We shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium. Synthetic food will, of course, also be used in the future. Nor need the pleasures of t... |
| 29.09.2016 | Hard Tech Startups | Some people think YC only funds straightforward software startups. That’s definitely not the case — YC’s largest exit to date is a self-driving car company, Cruise Automation, and we’ve funded many other hard technology companies like Gingk... |
| 23.03.2016 | Here are the 59 startups that demoed at Y Combinator Winter ’16 Demo Day 2 | “Food, housing, healthcare, transportation. Life essentials made better and more affordable.” These are the types of startups that partner Paul Buchheit said were demoing today at Y Combinator’s Winter 2016 Demo Day 2. Yesterday, we covered... |
| 16.02.2016 | Why these citizen-scientists are launching a nonprofit maker lab focused on health | “Bio is the new black.” (Or — perhaps to Brooklyn health product entrepreneurs — the lucrative hue of biotech is actually gold).
For nearly three-years here in “Techreative Brooklyn,” I’ve studied the elements of the tech/bio/med revolution... |
| 04.02.2016 | OpenTrons (W16) Does Lab Grunt Work so Scientists Can Focus on Bigger Things | Despite all the technological progress that has been made in recent years, an astonishing amount of life sciences lab work is still done by hand. Many biology
experiments require the mixing together of fluids very precisely
under specific... |
| 01.02.2016 | OpenTrons Aims To Be The ‘PC’ Of Biotech Labs | Robotics startup OpenTrons has come up with a way it believes will make wet lab experiments faster and cheaper – automation.
Most life science research is still done by hand. This can be a tedious process that OpenTrons hopes to diminish by... |
| - | Orrick Advises Opentrons Labworks on $200 Million Series C Round | We advised Opentrons Labworks Inc., a lab platform provider based in New York City, on its $200 million Series C round. The round was led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 with additional participation from Khosla Ventures.
Opentrons will use this ... |
| - | YC and Hard Tech Startups | Some people think YC only funds straightforward software startups. That’s definitely not the case — YC’s largest exit to date is a self-driving car company, Cruise Automation, and we’ve funded many other hard technology companies like Gingk... |
| - | OpenTrons | “Opentrons Labworks Inc” |
| - | How Biotech Startup Funding Will Change in the Next 10 Years | Back when YC was getting started about 10 years ago, Paul Graham wrote some essays that predicted the way startup fundraising would change in the next decade - accurately, it turns out. Paul Graham predicted that there would be way more sta... |
