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Periodic Labs
Autonomous labs plus models for materials discovery.
- HQ
- Menlo Park
- Founded
- 2025
- Web
- periodic.com
- Camps
- Physics AI
What it does
Periodic Labs pairs language models with automated labs to discover materials, starting with superconductors and semiconductor thermal problems. Its $300M seed in September 2025 was led by a16z at a $1.3B valuation; by May 2026 it was raising at a reported $7.5B.
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Capital
| Amount | Kind | Valuation | Date | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $300M | seed | $1.30B post-money | Sep 2025 | Andreessen Horowitz, DST, NVentures, Accel, Felicis, Jeff Bezos, Eric Schmidt, Jeff Dean | TechCrunch |
| $500M reported | funding round (reported talks) | $7.5B reported | May 2026 | Reported talks, not a closed round. | Forbes |
People
General sources
Former OpenAI and DeepMind researchers raise whopping $300M seed to automate science TechCrunch 2025-09-30