Claim · 2025-09-30 · event · Stated in source · Supported

Periodic Labs’ introduction of 30 September 2025 names Accel among its backers, and TechCrunch reported the same day that the investor backed its $300 million seed round.

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Accel → participated in funding for → Periodic Labs

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Claim and evidence

Accelparticipated in funding for ↓Periodic Labs

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Supporting evidence: primary + secondary · 2 sources

Date: 2025-09-30 · event Records dated 2025 →
Transaction type: funding round
Relationship context: external
Period or expected timing: seed round
Stage: announced

Scope and limitsThe company names its backers without naming the round; the round link rests on TechCrunch. No individual amount is stated; the round total is not attributed to this investor.

The evidence 02

primary sourceSupports the claim

Introducing Periodic Labs

Periodic Labs · 2025-09-30

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“We’re fortunate to be backed by investors who share our vision, including a16z, as well as Felicis, DST, NVentures (NVIDIA’s venture capital arm), Accel”

Location in source “Our backers” section

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Machine-checked · 2026-10-29

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Authors: Periodic Labs
Version: Dated page, retrieved on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 6d848fc103bd5195d2e9ec1c18bbe298400570a0c32f5fbf7d337db6d7b2520d) directly from the publisher.
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Accessed: 2026-10-29
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Periodic Labs, “Introducing Periodic Labs”, 2025-09-30.
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, lab genealogy 2 (research/lab-genealogy-2). The quotation (24 words) matched the retrieved text on 2026-10-29 and again in a fresh retrieval. Read directly from the publisher. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, apostrophes, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-31, item L112) re-read the record’s sources. No human editorial review.

secondary sourceSupports the claim

Former OpenAI and DeepMind researchers raise whopping $300M seed to automate science

TechCrunch · 2025-09-30

Archived copy, captured 2026-09-25: Former OpenAI and DeepMind researchers raise whopping $300M seed to automate science

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“a war chest of $300 million as a seed round, backed by a tech industry who’s who: Andreessen Horowitz, DST, Nvidia, Accel”

Location in source Paragraph 1

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-10-29

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Authors: TechCrunch
Version: Dated page, retrieved on 2026-10-15 (SHA-256 ebc8c38eabb88a27e26e02ac2abac52d6b0fb57003d262c3735f733da51f49cd) directly from the publisher.
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Accessed: 2026-10-15
Language: English (en)
Archive copy: Open archived copy, captured 2026-09-25: Former OpenAI and DeepMind researchers raise whopping $300M seed to automate science. Captured 360 days after the recorded publication date. An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 2026-09-25. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-10-15.
Attribution: TechCrunch, “Former OpenAI and DeepMind researchers raise whopping $300M seed to automate science”, 2025-09-30.
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, lab genealogy 2 (research/lab-genealogy-2). The quotation (22 words) matched the retrieved text on 2026-10-29 and again in a fresh retrieval. Read directly from the publisher. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, apostrophes, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-31, item L112) re-read the record’s sources. No human editorial review.

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Relation. Named participation in a financing round. The full round total is not attributed to this investor.

Date. Date of the company’s introduction and of TechCrunch’s report; not a closing date.

Record ID lg2-nl-periodic-seed-2025-accel