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Alex Wang Is Taking AI Out of the Demo and Into the Lab
After two decades helping enterprise technologies find their market, NobleAI's CEO is betting that scientific AI wins only when chemists and engineers can understand it, check it and use it in the flow of real work.
David Arreaga
David Arreaga is the co-founder and CEO of Ares Materials, a Plano, Texas deep-tech company building AI-designed optical polymers for flexible and foldable electronics. A materials scientist with a Ph.D. from UT Dallas, he turned doctoral research on polymer substrates into a company whose Pylux cover-window and adhesive materials target the next generation of foldable displays. Ares pairs high-throughput experimentation with machine learning to shorten materials development from decades to years, and closed the first trench of a $12M Series B round in 2025.