Zeon Systems
Zeon Systems is a YC Spring 2025 (P25) company. Based in San Francisco, CA, USA. Team of 5.
About Zeon Systems
Summary
Zeon Systems builds AI-powered robotic systems that run complete experiments in scientific labs. Scientists describe a protocol in plain English, and Zeon translates it into a workflow, detects the lab's existing equipment, and executes the full procedure autonomously using robotic arms, including steps like liquid handling, incubation, and sample disposal. It replaces the manual bench work scientists currently perform themselves, freeing them to focus on analysis and design.
Business model
Omitted: pricing structure not specified in sources.
Go-to-market
Zeon targets research scientists at universities and institutions, deploying directly into labs that already own standard instruments and labware, with a sales motion anchored in hands-on deployment at partner labs.
From the Y Combinator listing
AI-powered robotics for scientific lab automation.
We’re building AI-powered systems that automate manual work in scientific labs using robotics. Scientists simply type their experiment in plain English. Zeon translates it into code and runs it on robotic arms (no coding required). By controlling robots with natural language, we’re enabling automation for every lab, every scientist, and every experiment. Zeon is lab-aware. It detects equipment, adapts to protocols, and moves autonomously between instruments to execute full workflows. We’re already working with labs at Stanford and UCSF to accelerate discovery - from running overnight nanoparticle fluorescence measurements to safely disposing of hundreds of bacterial samples. Zeon reclaims time for what matters most: the science.
Facts
- Industrials / Industrials -> Manufacturing and Robotics
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- 5
- Active
- Early
Founders (2)
- Brontë Kolar
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