Lila Sciences
Building Scientific Superintelligence
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Building Scientific Superintelligence
What they do: Building a "scientific superintelligence" platform and AI Science Factories—autonomous labs that design, run, observe, and iterate experiments for life, chemical, and materials sciences.
Founded / HQ: Founded in 2023; based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Funding to date: $550M total disclosed (announced $200M seed; $350M Series A close in Oct 2025).
Leadership: Geoffrey von Maltzahn, Ph.D. — Co‑Founder & CEO; Noubar Afeyan — Co‑Founder & Chairman; Molly Gibson — Co‑Founder.
Origins: Built in stealth for ~three years inside Flagship Pioneering before public launch in March 2025.
Accelerating discovery across life sciences, chemical sciences, and materials science by automating the scientific method and experimental workflows.
2023
Life sciences, chemical sciences, and materials science
$200M
Company described this as $200M in committed seed capital with participation from multiple institutional investors.
$235M
Described by the company as a Series A first close.
$350M
Company announced the Series A closed at $350M and stated total capital raised reached $550M.
“Backed at seed by Flagship Pioneering with participation from established venture firms (e.g., General Catalyst, March Capital, ARK Venture Fund) and institutional/strategic investors; Series A included co‑leads Braidwell and Collective Global plus additional strategic and corporate participants (e.g., NVentures, Analog Devices, ADIA subsidiary).”