On September 30, 2025, Periodic Labs announced a $300 million Seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz. Additional participation came from Felicis, DST Global, NVIDIA, Accel, and individual investors including Elad Gil, Eric Schmidt, Jeff Dean, and Jeff Bezos. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati advised Periodic Labs on the transaction.

Periodic Labs is founded by AI industry leaders Ekin Dogus Cubuk, who led the materials and chemistry team at Google Brain and DeepMind, and Liam Fedus, former Vice President of Research at OpenAI and one of the co-creators of ChatGPT. The company's mission is to automate scientific discovery by creating AI systems that will learn from scientific literature, physical experimentation, and repeated efforts to modify and improve these experiments.

The Wilson Sonsini team that advised Periodic Labs on the transaction was led by Yokum Taku, Avi Emanuel, MJ Han, and Jinny Park.

For more information, please see Periodic Labs' blog and LinkedIn post. Additional coverage can be found on TechCrunch and The New York Times.