An AI-driven chemistry startup, SOLVE Chemistry, has raised £4 million seed funding to expand its work helping pharmaceutical and agrochemical manufacturers bring products to market faster, more sustainably, and at lower cost.

The significant time and expense needed to design a chemical production line prevent drugs and agrochemicals from quickly reaching the people who need them, and exposes manufacturers to the risk that market conditions could change while they wait.

To scale chemical production more quickly, SOLVE Chemistry, a spinout from Imperial College London, uses novel ultra-high-throughput data collection hardware at its London lab to obtain accurate data on chemical reactions 20x faster than traditional high throughput experimentation, and trains AI models to predict the best way to manufacture chemicals.