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Qingkui Zhizao
Builds self-driving chemistry labs as modular robotic workstations, scheduling software that runs instruments as agents and models trained on its own lab data, and is building a cloud lab to run experiments for customers in drugs, chemicals, materials and batteries.
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- 2026-11-13Series A · about 100 million yuanconfirmedWith Chuangdongfang Investment, Feirongda, Jinhui Big DataStated use: core technology R&D, expansion into key industries and building its cloud lab
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- 2026-10-29OpentronsSeries E · $40MMakes open, programmable benchtop lab robots, the Flex and the smaller OT-2, that pipette liquids and move plates, with software meant to let AI models design, run and refine experiments on them; it says over 11,000 are deployed in more than 80 countries.
- 2026-10-22Warp SciencesRound (unnamed) · $215MA US chemistry contract research organisation that makes the molecules drug-discovery teams order, starting with variations of a lead compound for lead optimisation. Chemists guide the work while the company automates more of it with AI and robotics and trains models on the data its experiments produce. It says it has no drug pipeline of its own.
- 2026-10-06Multiply LabsSeries B · $75MBuilds robotic clusters that run the manual steps of making cell and gene therapies and other biologics, working with the drugmaker's existing equipment; the drugmakers own and operate the robots.
- 2026-09-21Woshi TechnologyRound (unnamed) · over 100M yuan across several rounds in the past yearA structured chemistry database, AI models for synthesis planning and robotic labs from milligram to kilogram scale, used by chemicals, battery and pharma companies.
- 2026-09-16ChemifySeries B extension · Series B extended to £51.9M ($70M) in totalTurns molecule designs into code that robots run (Chemputation) in automated 'Chemifarm' labs, making small molecules for drug and materials partners.
- 2026-09-16Deep MaterialA+ · nearly 100M yuanDesigns metal alloys with its own models and an automated high-throughput lab, then supplies the materials to 3C, aerospace and fusion customers.
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