Whelix

Whelix was founded by scientists and engineers who experienced the limits of manual cell culture firsthand. During his PhD research in biomedical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, CEO Bingda Li saw how repetitive pipetting, frequent night and weekend lab visits, inconsistent results, and contamination slowed progress across life-science research. Too much scientific talent was being spent on cell expansion and maintenance instead of discovery. With CTO Xinyu Wang, a robotics researcher at Carnegie Mellon, they founded Whelix to build intelligent, compact, modular, and affordable robotic platforms that automate cell culture end to end. By uniting cell biology, robotics, and AI, Whelix is transforming cell culture from a bottleneck into a scalable, reliable foundation for modern biology, with AI-native robotic platforms for autonomous, scalable, and consistent cell production.