{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"START","title":"START: Chloe Sow, Co-Founder, Infera \"The operating system for your laboratory” ","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":607,"description":"Scientific discovery shouldn't slow down because of software.\nBut every instrument in the lab ships its own, and someone has to learn all of them.\nResearchers don't want to memorize instrument interfaces.\nThey want experiments to run.\nThey want answers.\nThey want data.\nThat's the problem Infera is solving.\nChloe Sow knows that side of it. Mechanical engineering at Harvard, research at Brigham and Women's, building medical devices and running the experiments by hand.\nHer co-founder Troy Cheng spent an entire research summer figuring out how to run his lab's experiments on one machine. That was the summer.\nSo they built the thing they needed.\nDescribe an experiment in plain English.\nInfera turns it into a validated, instrument-ready run across the equipment your lab already uses.\nOne system for protocol logic.\nVendor-specific scripts.\nLaboratory data.\nInventory.\nInstitutional knowledge.\nToday, running an experiment means going instrument by instrument.\nTomorrow, one place for all of them.\nAI agents already design experiments and protocols.\nBut nothing connects those designs to real laboratory instruments.\nOne system.\nFrom intent to execution.‍\nInfera: \"Control lab instruments with natural language\"\n🎙️ Chloe Sow, Co-Founder, Infera on Fondo START pod‍00:45 Claude Code for scientific instruments\n01:27 Troy's entire job was one liquid handler\n02:39 Every run captures a record. The missing layer between AI and instruments\n03:12 Scientists pressing buttons without knowing the machine\n04:22 Plain English to validated instrument-ready run. Academic labs and cores first\n05:50 Every instrument ships its own closed software\n06:02 Meeting at a virtual Caltech admit session\n07:19 Applied to YC for feedback. Got in first try\n08:35 Staying disciplined instead of chasing the SF event circuit‍Check out infera.bio","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/q-E1hh7K6IS4AfZiNy2p4MYVGcUOO8lQP92h8QbOEOA/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80NzVj/MDEzNjkxNjU1N2Uy/NDFhMDQ3M2ZhNWI3/NWY0MS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}