Founder and CEO of Levity
What if the next breakthrough drug—or the key experiment behind it—was lost in a pipette tip?
Every day, laboratories working with DNA, RNA, and proteins rely on trillions of disposable pipette tips, tubes, and well plates to move precious samples through complex workflows. For teams screening synthetic peptides, assembling DNA libraries, or evaluating vaccine candidates, each transfer carries risk: contact contamination, adsorption losses, and wasted reagents that can cost hundreds or thousands of dollars per experiment. As laboratories increasingly turn to robotic pipetting and high-throughput automation, their dependence on these disposable plastics—and the inefficiencies they introduce—will only grow.
I began thinking about this problem during my PhD while working with delicate biological samples and watching valuable material disappear into the very tools meant to handle it. Pipettes were designed for a different era of laboratory science, one where scale, precision, and automation were far less demanding. I began asking a simple question: What if we could move and measure samples without touching them at all?
That question led to the development of our core acoustic levitation platform. Using ultrasound waves in air, the system can safely lift, move, and contain liquid droplets and solid samples—such as powders or living cells—without any physical contact. Unlike traditional liquid handling systems, our platform enables precision at scale while simplifying automation through a flexible and programmable acoustic manipulation workflow. Our integrated sensing suite can even perform measurements such as non-contact weighing of levitated droplets in mid-air.
At Levity, our mission is to accelerate scientific discovery by building the scientific instruments of tomorrow. We are excited to work with scientists, engineers, and innovators advancing DNA, RNA, and protein technologies across research and commercial development—whether you are a current or future user of Levity systems, a collaborator building new workflows, or a pioneer exploring new experimental possibilities.
At Levity, we don’t just levitate objects.
We lift constraints.