# Periodic Labs: AI company

Canonical ID: `c4427fd4-ec8e-4c66-88e4-7bafe6b58340`

## Key facts

- **Seed round (reported, Sep 2025):** 300 million dollar seed round led by [Andreessen Horowitz](/companies/andreessen-horowitz.md), with [Felicis](/investors/felicis.md), DST, [NVentures](/investors/nventures.md) and [Accel](/investors/accel.md) among investors.
- **Founders (reported, Sep 2025):** Founded by former [OpenAI](/companies/openai.md) researcher Liam Fedus and former [Google DeepMind](/companies/google-deepmind.md) researcher Ekin Dogus Cubuk.

- **Slug:** periodic-labs

## Models

_No models registered._

## Supplies to

_No verified supply relationships on file. Supply-chain coverage is being added across the registry; check back as the seed populates this company's outbound edges._

_Outbound supply edges. Each appears when verified with at least two strong sources. Sources are append-only; corrections add new sources rather than rewrite history._

## Common questions

### What is Periodic Labs?

AI research company building AI scientists and autonomous labs to accelerate materials discovery, founded by Liam Fedus and Ekin Dogus Cubuk.

### What does Periodic Labs make?

Periodic Labs has no robot models recorded on the DEPLOY registry. Periodic Labs builds robot foundation models or autonomy software.

### Is Periodic Labs a top robotics company?

On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, funding, hiring, media, safety, and IP signals, Periodic Labs ranks in roughly the top 94% of companies tracked by the registry.


## Sources (2)

1. https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/30/former-openai-and-deepmind-researchers-raise-whopping-300m-seed-to-automate-science/ · 2025-09-30
2. https://a16z.com/announcement/investing-in-periodic-labs/

## The verified answers

- [Which companies have the most robots deployed](/which-companies-have-the-most-robots-deployed.md)
- [Which operators run the most robots](/which-operators-run-the-most-robots.md)
- [Which robot operators cover the most countries](/which-robot-operators-cover-the-most-countries.md)

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