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What Does Medra Do, and How Much Did It Raise?
Medra raised a $52M Series A to build Physical AI Scientists, led by founder Michelle Lee.
Medra is developing the first platform for Physical AI Scientists and announced a $52 million Series A in December 2025. The San Francisco company is led by founder and CEO Michelle Lee, Ph.D.
Pharma has tried to fix this with partial lab automation that remains brittle, inflexible, and dependent on scientist intervention, while separately building ML programs that still require manual, time-consuming experiments to generate data. None of these efforts operate in a closed feedback loop, leaving experimentation, data generation, and model improvement disconnected. Medra solves this by unifying robotics, AI, and data generation into a continuous system.
“Medra is creating an entirely new category in biopharma R&D, one where we believe science can continuously learn and scale to create groundbreaking therapeutics with a higher chance of clinical success,” said Armaan Ali, Co-founder, CEO & Managing Partner, Human Capital.
Patrick Hsu, Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley and co-founder of the Arc Institute, added: “AI models are generating predictions far faster than we can validate them experimentally. Integrating these tools with traditional lab automation is often too rigid to scale effectively. Medra’s Physical AI Scientist bridges this gap using autonomous, general-purpose robotics. The system learns from every experiment, creating the continuous feedback loop needed to scale data generation and drive breakthroughs in frontier science.”
During JPM Week (January 12–16, 2026), Medra will host private tours of its San Francisco facility. For more information, contact tours@medra.ai.
About Medra
Medra is building the world’s first end-to-end Physical AI Scientist platform for continuous experimentation. By combining AI-driven scientific reasoning, robotic execution, and real-time optimization, Medra enables a new paradigm for drug discovery, one that continuously learns, scales, and predicts therapeutic success across every stage of development. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. For more information, visit www.medra.ai.
Contacts
Media Contact
Kimberly Ha
KKH Advisors
917-291-5744
kimberly.ha@kkhadvisors.com
source{BusinessWire]
“Medra is creating an entirely new category in biopharma R&D, one where we believe science can continuously learn and scale to create groundbreaking therapeutics with a higher chance of clinical success,” said Armaan Ali, Co-founder, CEO & Managing Partner, Human Capital.
Patrick Hsu, Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley and co-founder of the Arc Institute, added: “AI models are generating predictions far faster than we can validate them experimentally. Integrating these tools with traditional lab automation is often too rigid to scale effectively. Medra’s Physical AI Scientist bridges this gap using autonomous, general-purpose robotics. The system learns from every experiment, creating the continuous feedback loop needed to scale data generation and drive breakthroughs in frontier science.”
During JPM Week (January 12–16, 2026), Medra will host private tours of its San Francisco facility. For more information, contact tours@medra.ai.
About Medra
Medra is building the world’s first end-to-end Physical AI Scientist platform for continuous experimentation. By combining AI-driven scientific reasoning, robotic execution, and real-time optimization, Medra enables a new paradigm for drug discovery, one that continuously learns, scales, and predicts therapeutic success across every stage of development. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. For more information, visit www.medra.ai.
Contacts
Media Contact
Kimberly Ha
KKH Advisors
917-291-5744
kimberly.ha@kkhadvisors.com
source{BusinessWire]
What is a Physical AI Scientist?
Medra integrates AI algorithms with robotics execution. The aim is to reinvent how new medicines are designed.
Who founded Medra?
Michelle Lee, Ph.D., is the founder and CEO.
How much did Medra raise?
$52 million in Series A financing, announced on December 10, 2025.
Quick answers
What does Medra build? A platform for Physical AI Scientists.
How much did it raise? $52 million in a Series A.
Who is the CEO? Michelle Lee.