
Deep Forest Sciences revolutionizes medicine discovery and materials science through its AI assistant, Prithvi. Prithvi leverages large scientific foundation models and cutting-edge AI techniques, built on years of DeepChem development, to accelerate breakthroughs in molecules, materials, and designs. The company's approach combines human intuition with machine intelligence, utilizing differentiable physics and scientific foundation models to learn from minimal data and solve complex challenges. DeepChem, an open-source framework for drug discovery, is central to their infrastructure, with the Deep Forest Sciences team guiding its development. Prithvi has been deployed on drug discovery, energy, and molecular design projects.

Deep Forest Sciences revolutionizes medicine discovery and materials science through its AI assistant, Prithvi. Prithvi leverages large scientific foundation models and cutting-edge AI techniques, built on years of DeepChem development, to accelerate breakthroughs in molecules, materials, and designs. The company's approach combines human intuition with machine intelligence, utilizing differentiable physics and scientific foundation models to learn from minimal data and solve complex challenges. DeepChem, an open-source framework for drug discovery, is central to their infrastructure, with the Deep Forest Sciences team guiding its development. Prithvi has been deployed on drug discovery, energy, and molecular design projects.
Core product: Prithvi — an AI-powered scientific discovery engine / no-code platform for small-molecule and materials design
Founded: 2021
Founder & CEO: Dr. Bharath Ramsundar
Open-source lead: Leads development of the DeepChem ecosystem
Funding: 150000 USD (total; primarily grant funding)
Team size (reported): 7 employees
Small-molecule drug discovery, molecular design, and materials discovery
2021
Biotechnology
Crunchbase lists the most recent round as a Grant round led by Health Engine. The company also reports SciFM was supported by a one-year U.S. Department of Energy grant.
“Received grant funding; investors listed include Health Engine and Merck Digital Sciences Studio; company programs have been supported by a DOE one-year grant for the SciFM initiative.”