Rebuilding the biology lab from the ground up.

Mitigating the reproducibility crisis with full automation that is accessible to organizations of all sizes.

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.

Roya Amini-Naieni
Founder and CEO

Meet the Trilobio team

Roya Amini-Naieni

CEO & Co-founder
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.

Maximilian Schommer

CTO & Co-founder
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.

Paul Casinelli

GTM & Business Operations
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.

Scott Mackinlay

Senior Robotics Engineer
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.

Connor Novak

Senior Robotics Software Engineer
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.

Mia Celeste

Full Stack Engineer
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.

Becky Miller

Mechatronics Engineer
Studied Mechanical Engineering at Stanford, developed climbing robotics with the Biomimetics and Dextrous Manipulation Lab & taught 100s of students robotics. Worked closely on the reliability & assembly of the Trilobot perfect gripper.

Ruth Mueller

Electrical Engineer
Graduated Harvey Mudd College (HMC) with a B.S. double major in Engineering and Studio Art. Working on Trilobio control boards, sensors, and wiring. Previously interned at Blue Cheetah Analog Design and worked on human robot interaction research at HMC.

Bob Mason

Board Member
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.

Jenn Buechel

Board Member
Independent board member. Was most recently President and COO of Delfi Diagnostics. She held leadership roles at Guardant Health, Genentech, and McKinsey and earned an MBA and an M.S. from Stanford. Aspen Institute Health Innovators Fellow & Aspen Global Leadership Network.

Kristin Ellis

Board Observer
Serves as a Partner at Lowercarbon Capital, a climate-tech VC fund founded by Chris & Crystal Sacca, served as the Director of Strategic Initiatives & Scientific Development at Opentrons, & conducted clinical oncology research at MD Anderson Cancer Center.
We believe  the incredible potential of biology can be unlocked with a new approach to lab automation.
Trilobio is building an interdisciplinary team with a range of expertise and experience to make this a reality.
If you think you’d be a good fit, we’d love to hear from you! Send your resume to careers@trilo.bio.

Advisors and Supporters

Angel, Advisor

Scott Harris

Co-Founder @ SOLIDWORKS, Onshape
Angel, Advisor

Alec Nielson

Founder & CEO @ Asimov PhD @ MIT, BioE
Juniper

Jenny Kan

Postdoc @ Caltech in Synbio PhD @ Cambridge, Chemistry
Angel

Sridhar Iyengar

Founder & CEO @ Elemental Machines PhD @ Cambridge, Biology
Argon Ventures

Andy Feinberg

Prev. CEO @ Brightcove (NASDAQ: “BCOV”)
776 Foundation Grant

Alexis Ohanian

Co-Founder & Prev. Executive Chair @ Reddit
776 Foundation Grant

Lissie Garvin

Prev. Chief of Staff @ Reddit

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