TechCrunch · Mar 2022
Covers the Series A and the company’s plan to commercialize its automated genomics sample-prep platform.
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Updated Aug 16, 2026
Overview
Volta Labs, Inc. is a Boston-based genomics applications company that builds a digital fluidics sample-preparation platform to improve performance, scalability, and consistency in genomic workflows.
Primary product
Digital fluidics platform / automated sample prep system for genomics (including the Callisto platform)
Founded
2018
Headquarters
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Team size
11-50
Work style
Flexible
Industry
Biotechnology Research
Sub-industry
Genomics sample preparation / bioautomation
Offices
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Singapore
Business model
hardware
software
B2B
consumables/services
Funding
People & investors
Leadership
Udayan Umapathi
Founder and CEO
Udayan Umapathi
Founder & CEO
Abdul Mohammed
Founding Scientist, Head of Product and Genomics Applications Development
Michael Costa
Head of Engineering
Duje Jelaska
Associate Director, Manufacturing
Lizzie Hickey
Principal People and Talent Acquisition Partner
Huiying Tan
Head of Operations, Singapore
Raymond Lin
Industrial Design Lead
Natan Linder
Member Board Of Directors
Founders
Will Langford
Co-founder & Head of Engineering
Work & culture
Volta emphasizes cross-functional collaboration and continuous learning, with hiring across biology, mechanical engineering, and software engineering. Public recruiting/culture materials suggest a fast-growing startup environment, but specific benefit details were not publicly available in the sources reviewed.
Work style
Flexible
Product & market
Pricing
Not publicly disclosed; likely enterprise hardware/software sales with associated consumables or service revenue
Differentiators
- —Digital fluidics approach to sample prep
- —Sequencer-agnostic front-end platform
- —Designed to streamline upstream genomics workflows
- —Focus on performance, scalability, and consistency
- —Push-button automation vision for biological sample preparation
Technology
Python
Linux
GitHub
Docker
React
JavaScript
HTML
Grafana
Jira
Salesforce
HubSpot
Marketo
Google Analytics
Altium Designer
SolidWorks
Onshape
Matlab
numpy
Qubit
Illumina
Customers
Genomics labs and research organizations
Commercial genomics / sequencing customers
Competitors
Miroculus
Tecan
Hamilton
Beckman Coulter Life Sciences
SPT Labtech
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
~$1M-$5M annually (Exa estimate: ~$3.4M)
Estimated monthly visits
2.2K
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Latest news
Business Wire · Mar 2022
Company emerged from stealth, announced $20M Series A, and described the product as a sequencer-agnostic front-end platform for genomic sample prep.
MIT Media Lab
MIT Media Lab notes Volta Labs is a startup spun out of MIT’s Media Lab focused on programmable DNA sample prep.
Volta Labs
Primary-source company announcement with funding details, investors, and product positioning.
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