


Medra
Builds general-purpose lab robots driven by AI that plan, run and analyse biology experiments on standard instruments, for drug discovery teams.
Money and evidence
Latest round, Series A, 2025-12-11: the record then held no research entry for the company. The first research entry is dated 2026-06-24; the highest level so far is 1 (Exists).
Rounds and research, on one timeline
- 2026-06-24Research
Level 1 · Exists
Medra launches an AI layer that plans and revises experiments for its robot lab, with a DARPA-funded project to turn written protocols into machine runs
Medra's bet is that testing, not ideas, is now the slow step, so the reasoning should sit next to the robots. Its one worked example is its own: an antibody binding assay cut from three days to about 14 hours by dropping a two-day cloning step and tuning the rest, with no data shown. DARPA's money says the government wants protocols turned into robot runs; it is not a result.
- 2025-12-11Series ARound
$52M
For: expand the platform, grow teams and deploy with biopharma partners
Automated labHiringCommercial roll-out
Company press release (Business Wire) as reposted; Lux, Neo and NFDG are named as existing investors, but no earlier round is disclosed.
Lead · Human CapitalLux Capital ✓NeoNFDGCatalio Capital Management ✓Menlo Ventures ✓776Fusion Fund ✓
On the deal: Armaan Ali (Co-founder, CEO & Managing Partner, Human Capital); Matt Kraning (Partner, Menlo Ventures)
Research entries are the timeline's graded entries that name this company. A level grades one claim, not the company, and a blank can mean the record has not caught up rather than that nothing was published.
On the investors' own sites
Investors that name this company on their own site, in a portfolio or their own announcement. A ✓ in a round marks the same investor.
- Carbon Siliconno round stated, and in no round on recordcarbonsilicon.vc ↗
- Catalio Capital Managementcataliocapital.com ↗
- Fusion Fundfusionfund.com ↗
- Lux Capitalluxcapital.com ↗
- Menlo Venturesmenlovc.com ↗
Its investors also backed
Other companies on this page whose rounds name the same investor.
- Lux CapitalWarp Sciences, Transfyr, Xaira Therapeutics, EvolutionaryScale, Enveda, CuspAI, LabGenius, Multiply Labs
- Catalio Capital ManagementIambic Therapeutics, Enveda, BigHat Biosciences, Noetik, Lila Sciences, Basecamp Research, Superluminal Medicines
- Menlo VenturesWarp Sciences, Xaira Therapeutics, Chai Discovery, Genesis Molecular AI (formerly Genesis Therapeutics), Basecamp Research
- NeoTransfyr, Chai Discovery
- NFDGGeneralist AI