Reshape Biotech

Avinash Sukhwani, Magnus Nyborg Madsen, and Daniel Storgaard looked at the lab automation industry and saw a problem everyone else was ignoring: those massive, million-dollar "do-everything" robots that labs buy but never actually use. They're too complicated, too expensive, and too fragile for the daily grind of microbiology. So they flipped the script—Reshape Biotech builds one robot for each specific task, from filling plates to analyzing images. Simple. Focused. Actually used.

The Copenhagen-based YC-backed company has built an AI operating system for microbiology labs that handles everything from experiment design to automated data capture. Their hardware lineup includes a Smart Incubator with timelapse imaging and a High-throughput Imaging Device for analysis. They're targeting R&D and Quality Control across agriculture, food & beverage, industrials, and personal care—industries that desperately need to scale microbial testing but can't afford to wait around for clunky legacy systems.

Here's what makes Reshape different: they understood that in a busy microbiol lab, you don't need one robot that does everything badly. You need five robots that do one thing really well. That modular approach means faster adoption, lower barrier to entry, and actually getting these machines off the shelf and into daily workflows. They're betting big on making microbiology labs actually run better—starting with Copenhagen and expanding globally.