# Lila Sciences

> Lila Sciences is a Cambridge, Massachusetts company building what it calls scientific superintelligence: an 'AI Science Factory' that fuses generative AI with fully autonomous, robotic laboratories. Its platform generates hypotheses, designs and runs physical experiments, reads the results, and decides what to test next - closing the loop of the scientific method without a human pipetting at every step. Spun out of Flagship Pioneering's labs in 2023 and unveiled from stealth in March 2025, Lila has raised roughly $550 million and reached a valuation around $1.3 billion, with autonomous-science units aimed at life, chemical, and materials science.

- **Founded:** 2023
- **Headquarters:** Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- **Founders:** Geoffrey von Maltzahn (CEO & Founder), Noubar Afeyan (Co-founder / Chairman (Flagship Pioneering CEO)), George Church (Chief Scientist), Molly Gibson (Co-founder), Jacob Feala (Co-founder), Alexandra Sneider (Co-founder), Ben Kompa (Co-founder)
- **Team size:** ~400 employees
- **Products:** Autonomous Science Platform, AI Science Factory, Scientific Superintelligence (LLMs for science), Catalyst & Creation
- **Notable:** Reached unicorn status (~$1.3B valuation) less than a year after emerging from stealth, Raised roughly $550M in total ($200M seed + $350M Series A including a $115M extension), Named to CNBC's 2026 Disruptor 50 list

## Products & services

- **Autonomous Science Platform** — Lila's core system that combines generative AI with scalable, autonomous 'AI science units' to design, run, and learn from experiments with human guidance across scientific domains.
- **AI Science Factory** — Closed-loop robotic laboratories where liquid handlers, robotic arms, high-throughput screening, imaging, and analytical instruments are directed by AI that designs experiments and interprets the readouts.
- **Scientific Superintelligence (LLMs for science)** — Models with state-of-the-art reasoning on scientific problems and benchmarks, used to generate and prioritize hypotheses.
- **Catalyst & Creation** — Catalyst enhances and accelerates existing scientific work; Creation generates new discoveries and launches products.

## Achievements

- Reached unicorn status (~$1.3B valuation) less than a year after emerging from stealth
- Raised roughly $550M in total ($200M seed + $350M Series A including a $115M extension)
- Named to CNBC's 2026 Disruptor 50 list
- Generated non-platinum-group-metal catalysts for green hydrogen at a fraction of commercial cost
- Discovered and validated hundreds of novel antibodies, peptides, and binders
- Generated genetic-medicine constructs reported to outperform commercially available therapeutics
- Signed one of the year's largest Cambridge lab leases - 235,500 sq ft at Alewife Park

## Latest updates

- **2025-03** — Emerged from stealth with $200M seed and unveiling by Flagship Pioneering.
- **2025-09** — Raised $235M Series A led by Braidwell and Collective Global; plans autonomous 'scientific-method machines' in Boston, San Francisco, and London.
- **2025-10** — Added $115M Series A extension led by Nvidia's NVentures, reaching ~$1.3B valuation and $550M total raised.
- **2026-05** — Named to CNBC Disruptor 50 list.

## Links

- Website: https://www.lila.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lila-sciences
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/LilaSciences
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2ryWnGcwuc
- Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/lilasciences.bsky.social

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Last updated: 2026-06-08