The other investors besides Google include angel Mark Cuban, FF Angel, Naval Ravikant, AngelList and SecondMarket, according to news provider Tech Crunch.

Google Ventures, the corporate venturing unit of the eponymous search engine provider, has joined a consortium investing $1.2m in the seed round for Transcriptic, a US-based automater of lab work.

The other investors include angel Mark Cuban, FF Angel, Naval Ravikant, AngelList and SecondMarket, according to news provider Tech Crunch.