Periodic Labs
Building AI scientists and autonomous labs
San Francisco, United States · Founded 2025 · $300.0M raised
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, California
- Employees
- 51–200
- Founded
- 2025
- Business Model
- B2B
- Website
- periodiclabs.ai
- 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
Sep 2025
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