Opentrons raises $40M Series E to scale AI-run lab robots for autonomous science
READ THE ORIGINAL SOURCEOpen original sourceopentrons.com · Opens in a new tabOpentrons Labworks announced a $40 million Series E financing led by healthcare investor Avego, with BroadOak Capital Partners also investing. The company says it will use the capital to scale robotics, software, and data infrastructure for AI-driven lab work. It reports more than 11,000 robots deployed in over 80 countries, and says it works with 90 percent of the top 20 global pharmaceutical companies. The company frames the physical lab as a bottleneck for AI-generated hypotheses.
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Opentrons Labworks announced a $40 million Series E financing led by healthcare investor Avego, with BroadOak Capital Partners also investing. The company says it will use the capital to scale robotics, software, and data infrastructure for AI-driven lab work. It reports more than 11,000 robots deployed in over 80 countries, and says it works with 90 percent of the top 20 global pharmaceutical companies. The company frames the physical lab as a bottleneck for AI-generated hypotheses.
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- Opentrons announced a $40 million Series E round led by Avego, with participation from BroadOak Capital Partners.
- The company reports over 11,000 robots deployed in laboratories across more than 80 countries.
- Funds will support AI-driven experimental execution, expanded automation capabilities, and entry into new markets and geographies.
- The press release states the company's platform lets AI systems and robots design, run, and improve experiments in a continuous loop.
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Lab-automation maker Opentrons raised a $40M Series E led by Avego, with BroadOak Capital Partners, to scale its robotics, software and data tools so AI systems can design and run experiments directly. It says it has deployed over 11,000 robots in more than 80 countries.
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The announcement signals investor interest in physical lab automation as infrastructure for AI-driven science, a bottleneck the company describes between hypothesis generation and experimental testing.
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