Atinary is a deeptech startup that integrates AI, machine learning, robotics and cloud computing with R&D to revolutionize optimization and discovery of breakthrough materials. Atinary SDLabs Platform enables the lab of the future, a closed-loop Materials Acceleration Platform or self-driving laboratory. Atinary makes process optimization and materials discovery faster, smarter, greener, and cheaper. Target users of the SDLabs platform include companies in the energy, chemicals, pharma/biotech, cosmetics, and advanced manufacturing industries, as well as universities and research labs around the world.
Location: Switzerland, Vaud, Lausanne
Employees: 1-10
Total raised: $5M
Founded date: 2019
Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 29.09.2023 | Seed | $5M | - |
Mentions in press and media 25
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| 17.09.2026 | These constraints are holding agrifood back. AgFunder is investing to solve them | In the 1820s, when European farmers were pouring manure onto exhausted soils and getting very little yield back, the accepted explanation was that plants needed more humus, the decayed organic matter in the ground, which they fed on. So the... |
| 14.08.2026 | Bruker makes minority investment in Atinary | Atinary’s code-free SDLabs platform applies AI agents and machine learning to design optimal experiments and deliver better and faster results with automated closed-loop Design-Make-Test-Analyze-Learn workflows. Running these integrated wo... |
| 24.02.2026 | How AI, automated labs and CDMOs are replacing agrifood’s 100-year-old R&D playbook | The world’s most critical challenges—from food security and the energy transition to human health and climate resilience—are accelerating rapidly. The R&D methods tasked with solving them are not. They remain locked in the slow, less ef... |
| 11.02.2026 | Seven new startups awarded Scale-up Vaud Label | Scale Up Vaud is an initiative powered by Innovaud since 2016. Born from the observation that start-ups are well surrounded in their creation phase and that scale-ups are left alone with their whole new set of needs, Scale Up Vaud is the e... |
| 22.12.2025 | 🎥 Agrifoodtech in 2025: What broke, what bent—and what might still work | 2025 was meant to be the year agrifoodtech found its footing again. Instead, it turned into something messier: a year of recalibration, retrenchment, and some very public reality checks. Funding fell further than many expected, high-profile... |
| 08.12.2025 | Forbes 30Under30 spotlights Swiss innovators | Every year, Forbes’ 30under30 list identifies and honors individuals in the DACH region (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) whose initiatives, innovation, and entrepreneurial mindset help solve society and business challenges. The newly publis... |
| 12.11.2025 | Japan’s maturing agrifoodtech ecosystem takes larger slice of Asia pie | Japan’s food innovation ecosystem is maturing, with rising agrifoodtech startup investment and new cross-sector partnerships emerging across the value chain. That momentum was clearly on show at last month’s SKS Japan summit in Tokyo, where... |
| 05.11.2025 | Atinary partners with ABB Robotics, others to accelerate R&D with self-driving lab | [Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent company AgFunder is an investor in Atinary.] Deeptech startup Atinary is teaming up with ABB Robotics to build a self-driving laboratory in Boston, alongside Mettler-Toledo and Agilent, both key players in ... |
| 25.06.2025 | Atinary’s AI platform and expertise used to combat antimicrobial resistance | The Alchemy fund grant fosters collaboration between academia and industry, partnering Atinary’s AI expertise with the Frei lab’s strengths in metalloantibiotics. Together, they will accelerate the discovery of novel metal-based antimicrob... |
| 08.11.2024 | The Future of Food: How YoLa Fresh is Reshaping Africa's Agricultural Landscape | In the heart of Africa, a revolution is brewing. It’s not a political upheaval or a technological takeover. It’s a quiet transformation in the agricultural sector, led by innovative startups like YoLa Fresh. This Moroccan company is on a mi... |
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