Automata 🇬🇧 Hiring · 6 open roles ↗
Fully automated lab bench and comprehensive lab automation platform for life sciences.
About Automata
Automata provides a modular, configurable lab automation platform for coordinating laboratory workflows and programming experiments. The platform is designed to integrate with laboratory equipment and software, with an open architecture intended to support AI-enabled workflows.
Automata is a UK-based company founded in 2015, now around 159 people. It has raised $162.2M in disclosed funding, starting with a Series A in 2019. FundFinder classes it as B2B SaaS.
Founded by Mostafa Elsayed (Co Founder & CEO; previously Architectural Association, ZHA; General Assembly), Suryansh Chandra (Co Founder/Co-CEO; previously Architectural Association, Design Axis; AA School of Architecture).
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Hiring now · 6 live roles, checked daily
Series C · Aug 2026
- Aldea Ventures — Aldea Ventures is a pan-European venture capital platform based in Barcelona investing in the next generation of technology leaders. · cheques £8M – £30M
- Blue Wire Capital — Blue Wire Capital is a London-based early-stage venture firm founded in 2013. · cheques £300k – £1M
- Possible Ventures — # Possible Ventures backs mission-driven teams using frontier tech # to make the impossible Possible. · cheques £250k – £500k
Funding history
● rounds tracked in this directory · ○ earlier rounds web-verified from public announcements. Amounts as announced; undisclosed rounds omitted.