Deal Flow Alert: Periodic Labs $300M Funding Sales Trigger

🚀 Battle Card: Periodic Labs

• Liam Fedus, Co-founder 📧 <Liam@periodic.com>

• This Periodic Labs sales trigger supercharges the push for autonomous R&D, driving labs to adopt AI scientists at scale. → Source

• Manual research bottlenecks slow down materials discovery cycles

• High capex and opex for maintaining advanced lab infrastructure

• Primary: Autonomous Lab Platform → Reduce time to market by automating experiments

• Expansion: AI Research Analytics → Enhance experiment success rates with predictive models

• HQ: Mountain View, CA

• Employees: ≈ 50

• Rev: ≈ $1 M

• Website: [periodic.com](https://periodic.com/)

🤼 Competitive Intel

• Strateos — Lab Automation Platform
• Unique edge: Fully integrated cloud lab ops
• Evaluated by VP Eng for scalability

• Synthace — Bioprocess Automation
• Unique edge: Flexible workflow design
• Evaluated by Dir. R&D for customization

• Opentrons — Open-source Lab Robots
• Unique edge: Cost-effective hardware
• Evaluated by Procurement & Ops for budget fit

• Schrödinger — Computational Materials Science
• Unique edge: Best-in-class molecular simulation
• Evaluated by CTO & Research Heads for accuracy

• Benchling — R&D Data Platform
• Unique edge: Unified data management
• Evaluated by Data Science & Eng for collaboration

✅ Do-Now Checklist

Next Step

🧠 Copy My Prompt for Personalized Cold Outreach

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✏️ YOUR COMPANY
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OUR_COMPANY   = ❑<your company>❑
OFFER_BRIEF   = ❑Autonomous Lab Platform to automate experiments❑
PROOF_METRIC  = ❑≈ TBD❑
CTA_STYLE     = ❑quick_call❑
TONE          = ❑friendly❑

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📌 TARGET COMPANY
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NAME        = Liam
COMPANY     = Periodic Labs
DEPT        = Engineering
SIZE        = ≈ 50
BOTTLENECK  = Manual research bottlenecks
EVENT       = Secures $300M funding
DETAIL      = securing $300M led by Andreessen Horowitz
PAIN        = Manual research bottlenecks
SRC         = https://vcnewsdaily.com/periodic-labs/venture-capital-funding/xkcgvnxdpw
SIM_CO      = Strateos
WIN_METRIC  = ≈ TBD
NEXT_SIZE   = ≈ TBD
EMP_EST     = ≈ 50
REV_EST     = ≈ $1M

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TASK FOR CHATGPT
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Role: “NewsletterForLeads SDR-Assist”.

Validate any ≈ guesses via SRC.

EMAIL  (keep breaks):
Subject: ≈ 50-person Engineering

Liam—noticed your Engineering team is ≈ 50.

That’s when Manual research bottlenecks slows growth.

We helped Strateos fix this with Autonomous Lab Platform to automate experiments.

Result: ≈ TBD.  
Quick call?

PS—next bottleneck hits ≈ TBD.

DM ≤45 words, TONE:
Saw your post about securing $300M led by Andreessen Horowitz — Manual research bottlenecks.  
Autonomous Lab Platform to automate experiments. ≈ TBD.  
Quick chat?