Transfyr is a startup working to uncover the hidden factors that make some experiments succeed while others fail. Coming out of stealth mode this week with $25 million in seed funding, the startup is building a system that can absorb enormous amounts of lab data in the form of video, audio, and sensor logs from lab equipment. The approach will hopefully reveal some secrets about why experiments succeed or fail. Its analysis has so far revealed that lab workers perform the same experiments in many different ways despite following a protocol, demonstrating how important these variations are.