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Opentrons
Opentrons builds open, API-driven lab robots and software that standardize and automate scientific experiments.
Private · Laboratory automation · Long Island City, New York
Funding history
| Date | Round | Amount | Lead / notable investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 29, 2026 | Series E | $40M | Avego (lead); BroadOak Capital Partners |
Amounts as reported in the linked articles (company-reported or press-reported, not audited).
Blitz findings
- The company argues the physical lab, not the AI model, is now the bottleneck for AI-driven science. — Source
- Its open, API-driven robots treat an experiment as a program that can be run, modified, and re-run by software. — Source
- Every experiment run generates structured, reproducible data that can feed back into designing the next experiment. — Source
- It reports more than 11,000 robots deployed in more than 80 countries, including 90 percent of the top 20 global pharmaceutical companies. — Source
- The article says the potential moat is the protocol library, the installed base, and the structured dataset accumulated with every run, but the announcement offers no outcome data showing standardized runs produce faster discovery. — Source
Latest research
Opentrons' $40M Series E — The Lab Bench Is the Bottleneck for AI Science · November 8, 2026
Sources
- Opentrons' $40M Series E — The Lab Bench Is the Bottleneck for AI Science (BlitzLab research)
- Opentrons company announcement, October 29, 2026 (Business Wire, "Opentrons Announces $40M Series E Round to Standardize AI-Driven Science on Its Robots")
- RoboticsTomorrow republication of the same announcement, October 29, 2026
Research only — not investment advice. Private-company figures are company-reported or press-reported, not audited. BlitzLab scores blitzscaling strategy from public data.