Today, Warp Sciences emerges from stealth with $215 million to help the world discover new medicines faster and build the capacity to do it here in the United States. Congrats to the founding team, Kevin Weil, DJ Patil, Solomon Reisberg, and Manohar Paluri!
AI can design new molecules, but a design only becomes useful when scientists can make it, test it, and learn from the result. Today, scientific progress is constrained by the physical limits of the lab. Every experiment competes for time, equipment, and skilled hands, so scientists test only a fraction of the ideas worth pursuing.
Warp brings AI, robotics, and life sciences together in labs built for increasing automation, designed to run and learn from experiments so each cycle improves the next. Warp is building the infrastructure that enables biotech and pharmaceutical companies to discover new medicines faster.
At Mayfield, we are founders first, markets second. Our conviction starts with people, and Warp Sciences brings that philosophy to life. Their founding team is exceptional, with deep technical insight, a clear understanding of customer pain points, and the ambition to change how people live and to reimagine entire industries.
Kevin Weil served as VP of Science and CPO at OpenAI, DJ Patil was a founding executive at Devoted Health and the first U.S. Chief Data Scientist for the White House, Sol Reisberg was a medicinal chemistry leader at Terremoto Biosciences, and Mano Paluri was a VP at Meta Superintelligence Labs and a founding member of FAIR. Together, they bring a rare combination of experience across AI, data infrastructure, healthcare, and drug discovery.
Warp is starting as a preclinical contract research organization (CRO) in the United States, making and testing molecules for companies developing new medicines. Much of the physical work in drug discovery research is happening overseas today. Their goal is to shorten the path from molecular design to testing, and help scientists discover new medicines faster in the U.S.
Their ambition is to make discovery compound: experimental data helps train better AI, better AI powers more capable labs, and scientists gain the capacity to test more ideas.
Onward and upwards to Kevin, DJ, Sol, and Mano! The greatest age of discovery is still ahead of us, and we are excited to help Warp Sciences on their journey to iconic!
