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Automata

United Kingdom

Closed a $45 million Series C in early 2026 (led by Dimension, with a Danaher Ventures strategic partnership) to scale deployments across pharma, biotech and research organizations globally, bringing total funding to roughly $152 million.

Updated 2026-07-10 · Last verified 2026-07-09

CountryGB
CategoryManipulation
Stageseries C+
Founded2,015
Funding (USD)$152M
What they doModular robotics, orchestration software and data infrastructure that turn pharma and biotech labs into programmable, AI-ready systems.

Sources : Startup Mag (2026-01-15)TechCrunch (2023-10-03)Automata (2026-07-09)

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Bringing a physical AI solution into European industry?

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