# Osmo

> Osmo is a digital olfaction company teaching computers to smell. Spun out of Google Brain in 2022 by neuroscientist Alex Wiltschko, it built an AI 'Principal Odor Map' that predicts how a molecule smells from its chemical structure, then uses that model to design new aroma ingredients and digitize real-world scents. In 2024 it became the first to 'teleport' a smell - capturing a fresh plum and recreating it with no human in the loop. Its platform, Olfactory Intelligence, now powers Generation, the world's first AI-driven fragrance house working with roughly 100 beauty and consumer brands.

- **Founded:** 2022
- **Headquarters:** New York, New York, United States
- **Founders:** Alex Wiltschko (Founder & CEO)
- **Team size:** ~70 employees
- **Products:** Olfactory Intelligence (OI) platform, Principal Odor Map (POM), Generation by Osmo, AI-designed aroma molecules, Scent digitization / teleportation
- **Notable:** Published 'A Principal Odor Map Unifies Diverse Tasks in Olfactory Perception' in Science (2023)., AI model matched or beat the median human panelist at describing 400 novel odorants from structure alone., Achieved the first full 'scent teleportation' - digitizing and recreating a fresh plum's smell with no human intervention (2024).

## Products & services

- **Olfactory Intelligence (OI) platform** — Osmo's core AI system for reading, writing, mapping and digitizing scent - it predicts how molecules smell from structure and designs new aroma ingredients.
- **Principal Odor Map (POM)** — A machine-learning map, built with graph neural networks, that organizes odorant molecules by perceived smell. Published in Science (2023), it predicts odor for molecules never smelled before.
- **Generation by Osmo** — The world's first AI-powered fragrance house (launched March 2025), combining exclusive AI-designed ingredients, formulation tools and market intelligence for beauty and consumer brands.
- **AI-designed aroma molecules** — Novel, sustainable fragrance ingredients such as Glossine, Fractaline and Quasarine, discovered and designed via Olfactory Intelligence.
- **Scent digitization / teleportation** — A pipeline using a spectrometer (GC-MS), AI scent encoding and a molecular printer to capture a real scent and physically recreate it.

## Achievements

- Published 'A Principal Odor Map Unifies Diverse Tasks in Olfactory Perception' in Science (2023).
- AI model matched or beat the median human panelist at describing 400 novel odorants from structure alone.
- Achieved the first full 'scent teleportation' - digitizing and recreating a fresh plum's smell with no human intervention (2024).
- Launched Generation, the world's first AI-powered fragrance house (2025).
- Built what it calls the industry's largest structured scent data library.
- Raised $130M total across Series A and B; backers include Two Sigma, GV, Lux Capital and Stripe's Patrick Collison.

## Latest updates

- **2026-02** — Closed $70M Series B led by Two Sigma Ventures (total raised ~$130M) and named a new executive leadership team to scale Olfactory Intelligence.
- **2025-03** — Launched Generation, the world's first AI-powered fragrance house, debuting AI-designed ingredients Glossine, Fractaline and Quasarine.
- **2024-08** — Demonstrated 'scent teleportation,' the first fully automated digitization and recreation of a real scent.
- **2023-08** — Published the Principal Odor Map in Science, showing AI can predict smell from molecular structure.

## Links

- Website: https://www.osmo.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/osmolabs
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/Osmo_Labs

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Last updated: 2026-06-13