Whelix

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About

About Whelix

Whelix automates cell-culture work through two systems built around its Teknician liquid-handling core. The floor-standing Associan workcell adds an automated incubator, refrigerator, heat bath, gripper and waste handling, covering feeding, passaging, imaging and plating with capacity for more than 45 flasks or one billion cells per run.

Teknician packages liquid handling and brightfield or fluorescence imaging in a supervised benchtop unit supporting T75 and T175 flasks and well plates. The Willow agent converts spoken or typed instructions into protocols that scientists can review and simulate in a digital twin before execution. Associan is designed for continuous unattended operation, while Teknician requires per-run setup and can connect to external grippers, plate readers and analytical equipment.

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Funding

Investors

  • Draper Associates - Lead - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-03-19

Team

  • Bingda Li, PhD - Co-founder and CEO - Leads Whelix at the intersection of cell biology, laboratory operations and robotic automation.
  • Xinyu Wang, MS - Co-founder and CTO - Leads the robotics technology behind Whelix cell-culture automation.

Timeline

Events

  • 2025-03-19 - Funding - Mito Robotics, now Whelix, raises $1 million pre-seed round

    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.

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