Lila Sciences押注AI能跑完整套科学方法：融资5.5亿美元，估值13亿

做的是什么生意

A Cambridge, MA company building a 'scientific superintelligence' platform and AI Science Factories: automated robotic labs that generate hypotheses, design and run experiments, and learn from results across life sciences, chemistry, and materials.

启动资金：$235M initial round expanded and closed at $350M Series A; $550M total raised; ~$1.3B valuation (Aug 2026)

起因

Flagship Pioneering founded Lila Sciences in 2023, with Geoffrey von Maltzahn, a former Flagship partner, as co-founder and CEO. Flagship had already spun out Moderna, and Lila's premise was that the scientific method itself — not any single domain — is what AI can automate.

经过

Lila demonstrated early proof: AI-generated novel antibodies, carbon-capturing materials, and water-splitting catalysts that outperform the precious metals industry relies on — a third of which its Caltech-trained team initially dismissed, and which Fortune reported are now the highest-performing catalysts on record. Its first round grew from $235M to a $350M Series A closed in mid-2026 with NVentures (NVIDIA), Analog Devices, and others; total raised hit $550M at about a $1.3B valuation. It signed a 235,500 sq ft facility lease in Cambridge and began welcoming its first cohort of customers.

结果

Scaling: $550M raised at ~$1.3B valuation, CNBC Disruptor 50 #25, first commercial customers in onboarding, and AI-designed water-splitting catalysts reported as the highest-performing on record.

可借鉴之处

自动化循环，而非产品：Lila跨领域拥有假设、实验和学习，因此一个领域的突破变成了软件知识产权，并复合到下一个领域。