Mito Robotics, now Whelix, raises $1 million pre-seed round
Mito Robotics, now operating as Whelix, raised a $1 million pre-seed round from Draper Associates to accelerate its prototype for automating cell-culture work in life-science laboratories.
Why it matters
The financing supports a laboratory-automation system intended to reduce manual cell-culture work, a bottleneck the founders identified while conducting organ-transplant research at Carnegie Mellon University.
Evidence notes
- Mito Robotics, now operating as Whelix, received a $1 million pre-seed investment from Draper Associates.
- The company was founded in 2023 to automate laboratory processes such as cell culture for life-science research.
- Founder Bingda Li said the capital would expedite prototype development, with part of the robot already delivered to customer laboratories.