Multiply Labs

Multiply Labs

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Private Company

Total funding raised: $23.7M

Overview

Multiply Labs is a private, San Francisco-based robotics company founded in 2016, operating at the intersection of drug delivery and digital health. Its core offering is a modular robotic platform for the automated, industrial-scale manufacturing of cell and gene therapies, compatible with existing GMP instruments. The company positions itself as a manufacturing partner for the life science industry, targeting the critical bottleneck of scalable production for personalized and complex biologic drugs. It appears to be in a pre-revenue or early-revenue stage, focused on technology development and partnerships.

OncologyGenetic Diseases

Technology Platform

Modular robotic systems for automated, high-throughput, GMP-compatible manufacturing of cell and gene therapies.

Funding History

2
Total raised:$23.7M
Series A$20M
Seed$3.7M

Opportunities

The company is positioned in the high-growth cell and gene therapy market, where scalable manufacturing is a critical, unsolved bottleneck.
Its flexible, modular platform could appeal to a wide range of biopharma companies developing diverse therapies.
Expansion into adjacent areas like viral vector manufacturing presents additional growth potential.

Risk Factors

Key risks include the significant technical challenge of creating robust, sterile robotic systems for complex biology, competition from large established life science tool companies and other startups, and the long sales cycles and inherent conservatism of the biopharma manufacturing industry.

Competitive Landscape

Multiply Labs competes in the emerging field of bioprocess automation. Competitors include large capital equipment and consumables companies (e.g., Thermo Fisher Scientific, Sartorius, Lonza) developing integrated solutions, as well as other robotics-focused startups. Differentiation is based on modularity, flexibility, and throughput via parallel processing.