Built by biologists,
for biologists
Trilobio was founded on a simple idea: lab automation should empower discovery, not complicate it.
We believe every lab should have access to powerful, reliable full automation—not just those with the biggest budgets. Trilobio exists to close that gap and accelerate the pace of biological innovation worldwide.
Our founders spent years in research labs, facing unreliable automation, endless calibrations, and slow, manual workflows. So we decided to build something better—automation that truly serves biologists, not the other way around.
77% of biologists fail to reproduce biological experiments.
This means that groundbreaking research with the potential to cure diseases, reduce suffering, and mitigate the climate crisis is often abandoned, not because it is disproven, but because it is plagued by human error. The scientists responsible for these world shifting innovations end up demoralized and underserved, despite dedicating their lives to working on some of the most important technology on our planet.
Our mission is to empower scientists with full automation that is accessible and designed to serve them at its very core, giving scientists the same power over biology that computer scientists have over information. Trilobio is creating a paradigm shift in biology that will lead to an explosion of research advances.
Make lab automation effortless and reliable
Empower researchers to focus on discovery, not setup
Bring affordability and accessibility to the industry
The team
behind Trilobio
Studied Math/Comp/Bio at Harvey Mudd College (HMC) where she founded a SynBio lab with grant funding from HMC’s president, conducted SynBio at UW, HMC, & Asimov, & founded the first non-collegiate iGEM team in WA state. 776 Fellow | Forbes 30 Under 30.
Graduated from Harvey Mudd College with a double major in Computer Science and Studio Art. Works on the Trilobio OS UI, CI pipelines and cloud infrastructure, and inter-robotic networking. Previously worked at Meta and Cloudflare.
Studied MechE at Olin, led computational geometry at Machina, built gaze tracking & agtech robots at Synapse, kinetic art exhibited around the world, & mind-blowing personal projects from a polar printing press to a bike he rode 4k miles across the U.S.
Facilities and logistical lead. Previously at Niantic, Cloudflare, UCSF, and fintech. Experience growing start-up operations and logistics. Volunteer @ Burning Man’s Placement Team, Seed the Vote, and local political engagement.
Leads GTM strategy, sales, marketing, and operations. Founded a biotech creating immunotherapies for neurodegenerative diseases. Previously held GTM strategy, product and marketing roles at other HW & SW companies and earned an MBA from Harvard. Blavatnik Fellow.
Studied Mechatronics at Olin, built 50+ novel personal projects - phone-case robots to robotic swarms - Onshape features garnering 21k+ users, critical mechatronics & software for Relativity Space & Machina, & led a NASA research team. Forbes 30 Under 30.
Serves as the Co-Founder & Managing Partner of Argon Ventures, a fund leading investments in Intelligent Industry Solutions, & is the Co-Founder & former CTO of Brightcove (NASDAQ: BCOV), the market-leading online video platform for enterprise & premium media.
Studied Robotics at Olin, architected path planning & controls at Machina as the first Software Engineer, developed path planning at Relativity Space, led an Unmanned Ground Vehicles research team, & co-founded the 1st FIRST Robotics team in his city.
Scales production from prototype to full-scale production with an emphasis on continuous improvement and Lean Manufacturing. Previous hardware roles at Saildrone and Pyka. Multidisciplinary artist and frequent collaborator with the Exploratorium.
Biotechnology at Penn State University. Previous experience across 5 labs in microbiology, plant biotech, synbio, cloning, NGS, HTP production, and automation. Leads Trilobio’s testing lab and facilitates customer interactions.
Backed by incredible
investors & organizations
Scott Harris
Co-founder @ SOLIDWORKS & Onshape
Angel, Advisor
Alec Nielson
Founder & CEO @ Asimov, PhD in Bioengineering @ MIT
Angel, Advisor
Jenny Kan
Co-founder & General Partner @ Juniper, Postdoc in Synthetic Biology @ Caltech
Juniper
Sridhar Iyengar
Founder & CEO @ Elemental Machines, PhD in Biology @ Cambridge
Angel
Andy Feinberg
Co-founder & Managing Partner @ Argon Ventures, Prev. CEO @ Brightcove
Argon Ventures
Alexis Ohanian
President & Founder @ 776 Foundation, Co-founder & Prev. Executive Chair @ Reddit
776 Foundation Grant
Lissie Garvin
Director @ 776 Foundation, Prev. Chief of Staff @ Reddit
776 Foundation Grant
Danielle Applestone
Founder @ Applestone Consulting, Founder & Prev. CEO @ Bantam Tools
Advisor
