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OpenTrons Funding Round

On 3/28/2018, OpenTrons raised $10 million in Seed funding from Khosla Ventures, private investors and Lerer Hippeau.

Transaction Overview

Company Name
Announced On
3/28/2018
Transaction Type
Venture Equity
Amount
$10,000,000
Round
Seed
Investors

Khosla Ventures (Lead Investor) (Vinod Khosla)

private investors (Jeffrey Kindler)

Lerer Hippeau

Y Combinator

Proceeds Purpose
Fundraising has supported the development of OT-2 robots, and will be used to maintain this pace of customer and company growth.

Company Information

Company Status
Private & Independent
Industry
Robotics
Mailing Address
20 Jay St. 528
Brooklyn, NY 11201
USA
Email Address
Overview
It uses manual micropipettes to do liquid transfers so you don't have to. Free yourself from repetitive benchwork with your own robot. Here are some everyday protocols labs are automating with the OT-One: Serial dilutions, Various assays (ie ELISA), Master mix and PCR, Gibson Assembl, Transformations.
Profile
OpenTrons LinkedIn Company Profile
Social Media
OpenTrons Company Twitter Account
Company News
OpenTrons News
Facebook
OpenTrons on Facebook
YouTube
OpenTrons on YouTube

Management Team

Title
Name
Email & Social
Chief Executive Officer
Jonathan Badal
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Chief Operating Officer
Gregory Greeley
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Chief Technical Officer
Chiu Chau
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Vice President
Benjamin Donohue
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Vice President
Eric Poley
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VP - Customer Service
Maddy Kelly
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VP - Human Resources
April Bard
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VP - Marketing
Kevan Savage
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VP - Operations
David Kim
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VP - Product Management
William Canine
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VP - Product Management
Alfie Umbhau
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VP - Sales
Gregory Brown
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VP - Sales
Michael Gaffney
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