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Lila Sciences

55 Cambridge Parkway, Suite 800E, Cambridge, MA, 02142, United States

Overview

Lila Sciences develops an AI-driven platform that trains models on scientific literature across material sciences, chemistry and life sciences and generates experimental hypotheses. The company pairs those model outputs with laboratory setups to experimentally validate and close the loop between prediction and reproducible results. Reporting says Lila aims for a domain‑crossing, general-purpose science enablement stack rather than narrowly focused tools. Financially, it has completed a reported $200 million seed, emerged from stealth last year, and closed a $350 million Series A in October that lifted its valuation above $1.3 billion. Current reporting describes Lila negotiating an approximately $2 billion financing to scale compute, inference and laboratory capacity and to accelerate partner programs. The firm's growth narrative emphasizes standardizing experiment and feedback loops to make discovery repeatable and scalable.

Total raised
$550M
Funding rounds
3
Latest round
Series A
Latest activity
Oct 2025

Industries

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Foundational AI
  • Industrial Automation
  • Life Science
  • Software
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Recent funding

  1. Series A

    Oct 2025

    $115M

  2. Series A

    Sep 2025

    $235M

  3. Seed

    Mar 2025

    $200M

Team

  • Noubar Afeyan

    Co-Founder and Chairman

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  • Molly Gibson

    Co-Founder and President, Future Science

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  • George Church

    chief scientist

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  • John Kim

    President and Chairman

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