ChemPilot.ai

ChemPilot accelerates the discovery and development of next generation defense materials using AI and data from our automated wet lab. Developing a new material today takes 10+ years of trial and error. We compress that to months by screening for what can actually be made, then closing the loop: every lab result feeds back into the models so the next round is faster and smarter. Sam, Ofir and Maor spent two years researching these materials at the Technion lab of our CSO, Prof. Alon Grinberg Dana (former MIT postdoc), working directly with defense primes and government R&D agencies. Together we bring chemical engineering, computational chemistry and AI, plus the production systems to put them to work. ChemPilot spun out of that research. The West’s defense and dual-use industrial base runs on materials with fragile, sole-source and often adversarial supply chains. Demand for new capability is surging, and materials still take decades to develop. We’re building a new kind of chemical prime: one that can discover, develop and ultimately manufacture the materials the West needs, securely, fast and at cost.

YC batch

F26 · Fall 2026

Status, per YC

Active

Category

AI

Team size

3

Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

Founded

2026

Checked

6h ago

YC tags: Robotics, Workflow Automation, Aerospace, Advanced Materials, Defense