Multiply Labs

Multiply Labs presents a 65-person team of roboticists, scientists, and engineers based in San Francisco, led by co-founders Fred Parietti as chief executive and Alice Melocchi as chief scientific officer. The roster spans robotics software and hardware, systems integration, quality, product management, and field engineering, with advisors including cell therapy researchers.

Public materials position the company as a robotics supplier to pharmaceutical manufacturers rather than a therapy developer, with named collaborators across the cell therapy industry. The team page emphasizes building automation that expands access to advanced treatments manufactured at scale.

The Robotic Cluster is a modular manufacturing cell that packs four robotic arms and up to 24 instrument towers into under 600 square feet. Each cluster works with the good manufacturing practice instruments a therapy developer already uses, automating more than 50 unit operations such as liquid handling, cell counting, centrifugation, and incubator loading inside a closed sterile environment.

Depending on process length and therapy type, one cluster can produce roughly 2,000 to more than 10,000 doses per year. A no-code process builder lets scientists sequence unit operations visually, while the software logs every step and sensor reading into electronic records for quality review.