Announcing Lila’s $350M Series A and Incredible Partners on Our Mission

Today we’re announcing the close of our $350M Series A, bringing Lila’s total capital raised to $550M. We’re using this financing to accelerate the buildout of our AI Science Factories and bring our scientific superintelligence platform to customers working on the world’s hardest problems.   
  
Lila Sciences emerged from two years in stealth in March with a singular mission: build scientific superintelligence to solve humankind’s greatest challenges. That requires sleeves‑rolled‑up visionaries and backers with passion, persistence, and conviction. We’re fortunate to have both. 
 

Our partners 

Our Series A closed in two parts. We announced the first close co‑led by Braidwell and Collective Global. We’re now able to disclose the support of NVentures (NVIDIA’s venture capital arm), Analog Devices (as part of Flagship’s existing partnership), IQT, Dauntless Ventures, Catalio Capital Management, Pennant Investors, a group of investors from the Peter Diamandis’ Abundance Membership, and other new stakeholders. 

They join our exceptional existing Series A partners: Flagship Pioneering (where Lila originated), Altitude Life Science Ventures, Alumni Ventures, ARK Venture Fund, Common Metal, Dara Holdings, General Catalyst, March Capital, the Mathers Foundation, Modi Ventures, NGS Super, the State of Michigan Retirement System, a wholly owned subsidiary of Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), and several individual believers. 

We have intentionally assembled world‑class AI and science investors alongside scale capital representing more than $2T in assets under management—with primary beneficiaries that include retirement systems, teachers, working parents, their families, and institutions building technologies that improve lives. Our new investors bring: 

• Technical collaborations to accelerate our global growth plans,
• Conviction in Lila’s role in national security and U.S. resilience from materials discovery touching computing, energy, and infrastructure, and
• Deep appreciation of the hardest problems in healthcare, therapeutics, diagnostics, and longevity. 

This mix gives us the domain depth and values alignment to scale responsibly. 
 

What this capital unlocks 

This capital raise of $550M across Lila’s seed ($200M) and Series A ($350M), will accelerate Lila across these core areas:  

• Superhuman scientific performance across the most valuable areas of life science, chemistry, and materials.
• Scaling up AI Science Factories to produce more scientific tokens via more instruments under AI control than any company on earth and drive new scaling laws for scientific intelligence.
• Opening Lila’s platform to commercial partners. We’re welcoming our first cohort of customers now in strategic scientific domains to benefit from Lila’s scientific agents, autonomous science platform, and world class AI security.
• Adding more of the world’s most brilliant minds to our mission. We are a group of passionate innovators seeking to work on the most important challenge in the history of science.  
   

Join us 

• Prospective customers and startups: Let’s build faster breakthroughs together on Lila’s platform.
• Builders and scientists: Come write the next chapter of science with us. 

Come invent with Lila. 

With gratitude, 
Geoffrey von Maltzahn, Ph.D.
Co-Founder & CEO, Lila Sciences