Reach Industries

Reach Industries is a UK company building what it describes as frontier technologies intended to augment, rather than replace, human work across industries. Its declared starting point is science: the company argues that laboratories, which underpin advances in medicine, energy and materials, still depend heavily on human observation and manual record-keeping for many critical tasks, and that this domain is both complex and heavily regulated.

Its product is Lumi, presented as the first visual AI copilot for science. According to a funding news write-up, Lumi is an intelligent platform intended to act as an assistant across all stages of life sciences development, from research through to production, combining computer vision, voice and machine learning to capture and analyse operational data. The platform starts by automating capture of data relating to experiments, observations and material usage, with the stated aims of reducing manual data entry, improving data integrity and reproducibility, and freeing scientists' time for core scientific work.

In a 2022 interview, the founder described the company as building a platform that increases productivity and quality in labs by leveraging vision data, with applications across life science industries such as biotech and pharma. Earlier framing of the venture also referenced cloud infrastructure allowing developers and companies to remotely monitor, manage and control robots, industrial automation and IoT devices.

Founding story

TechSPARK reports that Reach Industries was formerly known as Reach Robotics and represents a new venture by founder Silas Adekunle. The company's about page states that Silas Adekunle and Chris Beck have spent over a decade building together at the frontier of robotics, AI and product innovation, with Adekunle as co-founder and CEO and Beck as co-founder and CTO.

Business model

Sources describe Reach Industries as offering a software platform (Lumi) to laboratory and life sciences organisations, and reference having customers on whose work the company says it has had impact, but the material does not specify pricing, contract structure or how revenue is generated.

Traction

In 2022 the founder stated the company had had genuine impact on customers' work and expected more case studies across the life science sector. A March 2026 funding report lists 30 employees and $100,000 in total funding at pre-seed stage. No revenue, customer counts or deployment figures are disclosed in the sources.

Latest developments

A March 2026 funding news item reports $100,000 in secured investment capital, intended to support development of the Lumi platform and expansion of operational capabilities; the report lists the company at pre-seed stage with 30 employees. The company website highlights Forbes coverage of the launch of an AI-powered lab assistant and an Innovate UK grant won jointly with CatSci to accelerate development of oligonucleotide therapeutics.