£22m · Grant · Deeptech · Glasgow, UK
Chemify, a Glasgow company building an AI- and robotics-enabled platform for molecular design, synthesis and manufacturing, has secured £22m in grants from Scottish Enterprise and the UK Government. The company said the support will help scale its automated Chemifarm infrastructure and make complex molecule production more programmable.
Making chemical synthesis behave more like computing
Software can screen enormous molecular spaces, but useful candidates still have to be made and tested in the physical world. Chemify links a chemical programming language with robotic synthesis, turning instructions into repeatable laboratory operations. That addresses a bottleneck that persists after computational discovery: slow, failure-prone chemistry and dependence on scarce specialist capacity.
Grant funding is suited to the infrastructure risk. Chemify must expand physical throughput and prove that automated runs are reproducible before customers can rely on the platform for valuable programmes. The £16m Scottish Enterprise award recorded in the UK subsidy register accounts for most of the package. Successful scale-up would make the Chemifarm not just a faster lab, but a manufacturing layer for digital chemistry.
Sources checked: Chemify company news; Chemify company profile; UK subsidy register; Tech.eu Funding Explorer.
