Lila Sciences Achieves $1.3 Billion Valuation with Nvidia Backing

AI research lab, Lila Sciences has secured $115 million in new funding led by Nvidia’s venture arm, making its valuation over $1.3 billion just two years after its founding in 2023. This latest round brings Lila’s total Series A to $350 million and its overall capital raised to $550 million. It drew in heavyweight investors such as Flagship Pioneering, General Catalyst, and the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority. It marks a pivotal step in Lila’s push to accelerate scientific discovery through proprietary, AI-driven research environments.

Unlike many AI labs focused on mining existing datasets, Lila’s central pursuit is to build “scientific superintelligence”, a new class of AI that generates original data through physical experimentation. The company’s flagship innovation, the “AI Science Factory,” connects robotic laboratory instruments with specialized AI agents capable of designing, executing, and learning from experiments at industrial scale.

These facilities run continuously, closing the loop from hypothesis to real-world testing hundreds or thousands of times faster than traditional research teams.

Lila recently signed a 235,500-square-foot lease in Cambridge, one of the largest lab deals in Boston this year, preparing to scale its AI-powered labs and strengthen its physical footprint. Additional sites in Boston, San Francisco, and London will further globalize its research platform.