Molecule.one, a Polish biotech company specializing in AI-driven chemical synthesis planning, has won the $1 million Standard Industries and W. R. Grace & Co AI Challenge, focused on leveraging artificial intelligence to revolutionize fine chemical manufacturing.
About Molecule.one
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Molecule.one is a Warsaw-based global leader in chemical AI and high-throughput chemistry, with its laboratory performing up to 60,000 reactions monthly.
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These reactions are specifically designed to train retrosynthesis models, optimize laboratory condition selection, predict building block reactivity, and deliver screening libraries for drug discovery and other industries.
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The company’s goal is to automate chemistry and discover the complete map of synthesizable compounds with scalable synthesis pathways from bench to industrial scale.
“To be recognized by a global industrials leader like Standard for our breakthroughs in the important field of retrosynthesis is a true honor, and we are grateful for their support of innovation in the field as well as of our startup. Winning this prize will enable us to advance our goal of automating chemistry, doubling down on our unique approach anchored in unprecedentedly accurate and reliable deep models trained on multiple datasets, including proprietary experimental data,” said Piotr Byrski, Molecule.one’s co-founder and CEO.
Investment details
Standard Industries and its operating company W. R. Grace & Co., a leading supplier of specialty chemicals, announced Molecule.one as the winner of the Chemical Innovation Challenge: Advancing AI-Assisted Molecular Synthesis. More than 30 teams entered the Challenge, with an impartial panel of judges overseeing three evaluation phases. The nine semifinalist teams received $10,000, while the three finalists each received $100,000.
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Standard Industries is a global industrial company with $11 billion in annual revenues and over 20,000 employees across 50 countries. It operates through two main sectors: Standard Building Solutions, including GAF, BMI, and Schiedel, and Standard Performance Materials, including W. R. Grace & Co. Through Standard Investments and Winter Properties, it manages a diverse portfolio of public equities, ventures, and real estate at the intersection of industry and technology.
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Last year, Standard launched a Challenge to address the time-intensive process of chemical retrosynthesis, which involves deconstructing molecules to find starting materials. This traditionally slow, error-prone task has been a bottleneck in chemistry. Recognizing the potential of AI and machine learning to speed up this process, Standard invited global companies, academics, and entrepreneurs to propose innovative ways to integrate AI into retrosynthesis models.
Molecule.one received $1 million for its AI platform, which will accelerate the development and production of pharmaceuticals, including cardiovascular, oncology, antibiotics, and antivirals.
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