Building robotics
to accelerate scientific
breakthroughs

Building robotics
to accelerate scientific
breakthroughs

At Medra, our mission is to automate repetitive wetlab tasks so scientists can more easily collect data and run the experiments needed to make groundbreaking scientific discoveries.

To achieve this mission, we are combining recent advances in robotics and computer vision to build lab automation technology that can perform protocols to the highest quality standards and be quickly deployed to new tasks.

Team

Michelle Lee, PhD

Founder and CEO

Albert Tung

Robotics Engineer

Russell Ohnemus

Mechanical Engineer

Daniel Chan

Robotics Engineer

Charles Lin

Software Engineer

Nick Huang

Chief of Staff

Kautilya Chenna

Robotics Engineer

William Holloway

Software Engineer

Michelle Lee, PhD

Founder and CEO

Jamie Delton

Founding Hardware
Engineer

Albert Tung

Founding Robotics
Engineer

Tom Randolph

Founding Software
Engineer

Russell Ohnemus

Founding Mechanical
Engineer

David Benhaim

Advisor

Angie Ruiz-Mitchell

People and Business
Operations

Unrivaled team of tech & finance leaders, ready to scale

Patrick Hsu, PhD

Arc Institute
Founder

Nat Friedman

GitHub
Former CEO

Nish Bhat

Carbon Silicon Ventures
Co-founder

Frederic Kerrest

Okta
Co-founder

BACKED BY

TOP VENTURE FUNDS AND OPERATORS

ALONG WITH OUR PASSIONATE INVESTORS

Nat Friedman

Github
Former CEO

Patrick Hsu, PhD

Arc Institute
Co-founder

Nish Bhat

Color Health
Co-founder

Frederic Kerrest

Okta
Vice Chairman & Co-founder

Patrick Hsu, PhD

Arc Institute
Founder

Nat Friedman

GitHub
Former CEO

Nish Bhat

Carbon Silicon Ventures
Co-founder

Frederic Kerrest

Okta
Co-founder

Why we started Medra

By leveraging advances in machine learning for robotic perception and controls, we’re building systems able to collect wetlab data with a level of precision and scale humans alone could never achieve.

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