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Bingda Li

Bingda Li

Co-founder and chief executive officer of Whelix, a Boston company also known as MitoAI Inc.

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Updated Nov 6, 2026·Latest SEC filing Nov 4, 2026·Suggest an edit

About Bingda Li

Bingda Li is co-founder and chief executive officer of Whelix, the brand name of MitoAI Inc. The company builds robotic platforms that automate cell culture for life-science labs.

He holds a PhD in biomedical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. During his doctoral research there, he faced repetitive pipetting, frequent night and weekend lab visits, inconsistent results, and contamination in cell culture work. This experience led him to co-found Whelix with chief technology officer Xinyu Wang.

Experience

This experience comes from official bios and from SEC filings. For roles taken from filings, the years are when the filings name Bingda Li in the role, so the role may have started earlier or lasted longer.

MitoAI Inc. Current
Co-Founder & CEO, director
2026 – Present · Boston, MA
Whelix designs robotic workcells guided by an AI agent to run cell culture experiments automatically for life-science researchers.

Key Colleagues at Startups

The people Bingda Li works with at each company, as listed on that company's latest Form D.

MitoAI Inc. · Form D, Nov 4, 2026
GL
Guanlin Li
Executive officer
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Jeff Knox
Director
Xinyu Wang
Xinyu Wang
Co-Founder & CTO, director

Bingda Li in the News

Sources

  1. SECMitoAI Inc. Form D, filed Nov 4, 2026