The New Lab Economy: How Physical AI Companies Scale on Less Capital
Founders combining AI, robotics and real-world science need more than a check. They need lab automation, legal and financial support, and partners who understand what it takes to scale. Today the cost of those services is rising faster than early-stage funding can keep up.
Join 4IR Group and the Nixon Peabody Capital Connector for an evening on the new lab economy: how physical AI companies can scale automation without scaling burn, from idea to exit. Libations and hors d’oeuvres will be served.
What to expect
Introducing RIVT//LABS (rivtlabs.ai)
RIVT//LABS builds customized automation workflows around a company’s existing science. Unlike most cloud labs and service providers, RIVT takes no IP. Your data, methods and discoveries stay 100% yours. You get a lab that grows with your company instead of a vendor that owns a piece of it.
Founder spotlights: Seco Bio and Dualys Bio
Both companies are using RIVT//LABS automation to scale, and both will present how it’s working.
Seco Bio (seco.bio) uses AI and robotics to keep live probiotics alive from manufacturing to consumption.
Dualys Bio (dualys.bio) is building a programmable protease platform (“CRISPR for proteins”) to target disease-driving proteins, starting with Ewing sarcoma.
Founder perspectives: from idea to exit
The founders will cover:
What it really takes to scale commercial automation
The hurdles the community keeps running into
What large cloud labs do well, and where they fall short for early-stage companies
What founders need from legal and finance partners, and when
4IR Group: a one-stop shop for founders
4IR is building a single place where founders get capital, infrastructure and services, priced to match their stage, in a market where service fees are outpacing the realities of early-stage investment.
Networking reception
Continue the conversation with founders, investors and ecosystem partners over libations and hors d’oeuvres.
Who should attend
Capital partners, ecosystem partners and companies building in physical AI, deep tech and the life sciences.
Sponsored by the Nixon Peabody Capital Connector. Hosted by 4IR Group.