Biotech pharma

Opentrons

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Today, biologists spend too much time pipetting by hand. We think biologists should have robots to do pipetting for them. People doing science should be free of tedious benchwork and repetitive stress injuries. They should be able to spend their time designing experiments and analyzing data. That's why we started Opentrons. We make robots for

Founded 2014Origin source ↗Checked 2026-10-17

Overview

Today, biologists spend too much time pipetting by hand. We think biologists should have robots to do pipetting for them. People doing science should be free of tedious benchwork and repetitive stress injuries. They should be able to spend their time designing experiments and analyzing data.

That's why we started Opentrons.

We make robots for biologists. Our mission is to provide the scientific community with a common platform to easily share protocols and reproduce each other's results. Our robots automate experiments that would otherwise be done by hand, allowing our community to spend more time pursuing answers to some of the 21st century’s most important questions.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08

Founders & team

Previously OpenTrons

Company history As recorded 2026-11-08

Nicholas Wagner

Founder

I'm working on feeding Quant Research to Generative AI as a service. BA Mathematics - Lehigh University '05 MS Analytical Finance - Lehigh University '08 MBA Finance - University of Wisconsin-Madison Applied Security Analysis Program '12 Co-founder - Opentrons Labware - MVP Software '13-16

Founder profile As recorded 2026-10-17
300team members reported
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Founded 2014 · Source

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Y Combinator

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Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedNew York City, NY, USA; New York, NY, USA
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