Lila Sciences, a Boston, MA-based company building a scientific platform and autonomous labs for life, chemical, and materials sciences, raised $200m in seed funding.
Backers included Flagship Pioneering, along with General Catalyst, March Capital, ARK Venture Fund, Altitude Life Science Ventures, Blue Horizon Advisors, State of Michigan Retirement System, Modi Ventures and a wholly owned subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA).
The company intends to use the funds to support the further development of the AI platform, autonomous labs, and infrastructure for rapid scaling.
Led by CEO Geoffrey von Maltzahn, Lila provides an autonomous science platform that is designed to, with human guidance, scale and optimize experimentation in any scientific domain by combining generative AI with generalizable, scalable and autonomous AI science units.
The Lila platform will be open to partners across the life and material sciences industries to jointly bring forth solutions in human health and sustainability at a pace and scale beyond today’s bounds.
Lila is led by a team including:
- George Church, Ph.D., Chief Scientist Officer,
- Andrew Beam, Ph.D., CTO,
- Kenneth Stanley, Ph.D., Senior Vice President,
- Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli, Ph.D., CSO of Materials,
- Christopher Fussell, President of Operations.
FinSMEs
10/03/2025