Periodic Labs

Building AI scientists and autonomous labs

San Francisco, United States · Founded 2025 · $300.0M raised

Employees
51–200
Founded
2025
Business Model
B2B
Total Funding
$300.0M
Last Round
$300.0M SeedSep 2025
Rounds
1

About

Periodic Labs is an AI research company building AI scientists and autonomous laboratories for physical science discovery. Founded in 2025 by Liam Fedus (former VP of Research at OpenAI, co-creator of ChatGPT) and Ekin Dogus Cubuk (former Google DeepMind, creator of GNoME), the company aims to create AI systems that can autonomously conjecture hypotheses, run experiments, and learn from results — generating novel scientific knowledge beyond what exists on the internet. The company is starting in the physical sciences, focusing on materials discovery (including room-temperature superconductors) and semiconductor applications. Backed by a16z, Felicis, DST, NVentures (NVIDIA), Accel, Jeff Bezos, Eric Schmidt, and Jeff Dean, Periodic Labs has raised over $300M.

Summary

Periodic Labs is an Infrastructure company based in San Francisco, United States, founded in 2025. It has raised $300.0M in total across 1 round, most recently a $300.0M Seed round in Sep 2025. Investors include Andreessen Horowitz and Accel.

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Funding History

SeedSep 2025
$300.0M

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