
Medra AI automates routine laboratory experiments so scientists can run, repeat, and refine protocols with less manual work. The company combines robotics, computer vision, and AI (including natural…

Medra AI automates routine laboratory experiments so scientists can run, repeat, and refine protocols with less manual work. The company combines robotics, computer vision, and AI (including natural…
What they do: Automates wet-lab experiments with a Physical AI + Scientific AI platform combining robotics, computer vision, and NLP
Founded: 2021
Headcount (approx.): 31
Latest disclosed raise: Series A $52M (announced Dec 11, 2025)
Laboratory automation and scientific workflow acceleration for genomics, cell biology, and histology
2021
Software Development
52000000
Announced Series A to scale deployments and build an autonomous lab; participation reported from Lux Capital, Neo, NFDG, Catalio Capital Management, Menlo Ventures, and others.
Earlier pre-seed/seed rounds and multiple investors reported (investor list includes Anthology Fund, Catalio Capital Management, Forward Deployed Venture Capital, Fusion Fund, Human Capital, Lux Capital, Mei Z., Menlo Ventures, NFDG Ventures, Nat Friedman, Neo, Palm Drive Capital, Patrick David Hsu, PharmStars, Seven Seven Six), with amounts/dates not fully specified in the provided evidence.
“Company raised a $52M Series A led by Human Capital with participation from established VC firms and angel/backer investors, indicating venture‑backed growth-stage financing.”
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What We're Building At Medra, our mission is to use AI, robotics, and biology to accelerate life science research, with the ultimate goal of eradicating disease. We have been quietly building the foundational layers of our Physical AI Scientist platform:
🤖 Physical AI that can operate scientific instruments with human-level dexterity.
🧪 Scientific AI that can analyze results, reason about next steps, and close the loop autonomously.
This is an incredibly ambitious mission, but we believe that a team of ambitious people with high ownership can accomplish incredible things.
About The Role As a Research Associate on our forward-deployed team, you will work across customer deployments to help them achieve their scientific objectives with Medra’s Physical AI. You will embed yourself at the customer, acting as a true partner on their team to ensure that the Medra platform is achieving scientific outcomes and driving value for the organization. You will apply the scientific method (hypothesis, design, experimentation, analysis) to test and validate the fidelity of our Physical AI Scientist platform for their workflows.
You will be in close communication with our end users (scientists) and have your eyes and ears on the ground to help us get ahead of any issues, while taking insights and learnings from the customer back to the company to guide improvements to our product.
Internally, you will partner closely with our forward-deployed engineers (FDEs) to drive a successful deployment. You will become a platform super-user who understands the strengths and limitations of our platform, and can apply creativity and scientific intuition to solve challenging problems.
We're looking for someone who enjoys the scientific process, thrives on solving problems, and gets excited by working across multiple diverse scientific projects. The right candidate acts with urgency and thrives under pressure.
Key Responsibilities
What You Bring To The Team
This position is 100% in-person; you must be able to come on-site to our San Francisco office. We offer relocation benefits for applicants who need to relocate. What we offer
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