Lila: Building Scientific Superintelligence
March Capital is proud to participate in Lila Sciences $350M Series A to build Scientific Superintelligence — AI that can experiment, learn, and accelerate scientific progress.
We have partnered with Geoffrey von Maltzahn since 2021 through ventures including Generate Biomedicines and Tessera Therapeutics and have seen his rare ability to turn bold ideas into companies that redefine what’s possible in science. With Lila, Geoffrey is transforming and accelerating how scientific discovery itself happens.
Why Current AI Companies Can’t Scale Science
In the last few years, the rise of generative AI has transformed how the world thinks about intelligence. Large language models can reason, write, and code, but science is different. Scientific progress doesn’t just come from reasoning over data; it comes from experimenting with the physical world, running trials, and learning from results that no dataset could have predicted.
In other words, the world’s most powerful models can read about science, but they can’t do science. That is the gap Lila set out to close.
The Lila Approach: Turning AI Into a Scientist
Lila’s mission is to build Scientific Superintelligence: an AI capable of learning directly from experimentation, not just information.
At the core of this vision are Lila’s AI Science Factories, automated labs where artificial intelligence can design, run, and refine experiments in real time. These factories are filled with robotic instruments, sensors, and feedback systems that allow AI models to generate hypotheses, test them, and continuously improve.
It’s a virtuous cycle; the more Lila’s AI experiments, the more it learns, and the more discoveries it can make.
Early projects are demonstrating what this new model of discovery looks like in practice. In life sciences, Lila’s systems have generated new antibodies that could accelerate drug development. In materials science, its AI discovered new compounds for carbon capture, both of which would have taken years through conventional lab work.
Each experiment feeds new data back into Lila’s models, expanding what the company calls “the frontier of scientific knowledge.”
A Generational Shift in Science
The idea that AI can reinvent the scientific method is resonating across research and industry. Around the world, new ventures from Periodic Labs to Safe Superintelligence and Thinking Machines Lab are exploring how to combine digital reasoning with physical experimentation.
Together, they reflect a broader realization: to move beyond the limits of existing data, AI must enter the lab. It must generate new information through experiment, observation, and iteration, just as scientists do.
This is a generational shift. For decades, the computing revolution accelerated how we process information. The next revolution will accelerate how we create information. By combining AI and automation in science factories, Lila is at the forefront of turning discovery into a continuously learning system.
Scaling Science Responsibly
Lila’s work doesn’t just advance science; it reshapes the infrastructure of how science gets done. With the close of its $350 million Series A, Lila is expanding its network of AI Science Factories and opening its platform to partners across healthcare, materials, energy, and national resilience.
The investor base brings together many of the world’s leading AI and deep science backers, Braidwell, Collective Global, NVentures, IQT, Catalio Capital, Pennant Investors, General Catalyst, ARK Ventures, Flagship Pioneering (where Lila originated), and other strategic partners who share a conviction that accelerating discovery will define the next century of innovation.
We’ve supported Geoffrey von Maltzahn and Lila from their earliest days, from the seed stage to this landmark Series A, watching vision turn into execution. We’re honored to continue our partnership with Geoff and the Lila team as they build the next great engine of scientific progress.
Hear from Lila at The Montgomery Summit
Geoffrey von Maltzahn joined us at The Montgomery Summit 2025 presented by March Capital to debut Lila Sciences before the company emerged from stealth. To learn more about the Summit and to join our community, you can request an invitation, here.
