Lila Sciences

Catalyst gives teams access to Lila Iris and AI Science Factories to design, run, and interpret experiments in less time.

Shell's Pearl GTL plant took 40 years and $19 billion to deliver ROI — a timeline oil and gas can no longer afford. This piece explores how Lila Sciences' technology is compressing R&D cycles from decades to months through autonomous, lab-based experimentation.

Lila Sciences closed a $350M Series A, bringing total funding to $550M, to scale its AI Science Factories and deploy its scientific superintelligence platform to partners tackling the world’s most complex challenges.

The next era of AI-for-science belongs to agents that can reason across domains and test their own hypotheses in a physical lab.

The page discusses a science startup’s open-endedness team.

Alexandra Sneider, PhD, is co-founder and VP, head of Origins at Lila Sciences. Alexandra Sneider previously served as LILA's head of Corporate Development and head of R&D for Physical Sciences.

Amit Aggarwal is Lila Sciences’ Chief Information and Security Officer, leading enterprise security, risk, and technology resilience. He previously led security and IT infrastructure at Moderna for five years.

Andrew Beam is Chief Technology Officer at Lila Sciences, where he leads development of AI for scientific discovery. His research spans machine learning, biomedicine, and causal inference, with a focus on building AI that reasons about complex biological systems.

LILA was founded in 2023 with the ambition to create Scientific Superintelligence.

LILA has created the world's first Operating System for Science powered by Scientific Superintelligence

Lila Sciences describes training scientific reasoning models across biology, chemistry, and materials science. It integrates the NVIDIA BioNeMo Agent Toolkit so its agents can predict molecular performance and run physical experiments in its AI Science Factories.

Jun 2026Lila SciencesNews article

Lila Sciences ranks No. 25 on CNBC's 2026 Disruptor 50 list, recognized for its scientific superintelligence platform. Its AI Science Factories run autonomous experiments across life, chemistry, and materials science, the three fields identified in the ranking announcement.

May 2026CNBCNews article

Lila Sciences announces the close of a $350 million Series A to accelerate the buildout of its AI Science Factories and open its scientific superintelligence platform to commercial partners. The financing brings the company’s total capital raised to $550 million.

Oct 2025Lila SciencesNews article

Flagship Pioneering publicly launches Lila Sciences, which is building a scientific superintelligence platform and autonomous labs for life, chemical, and materials science. The company discloses $200 million in committed seed capital to develop the platform and its first AI Science Factories.

Mar 2025Flagship PioneeringNews article