ChemLex, a next-generation AI-for-science company, announced the establishment of its global headquarters and self-driving laboratory in Singapore, alongside the close of a $45 million funding round led by Granite Asia. 

Founded in 2022, ChemLex develops AI technologies that radically accelerate chemical discovery for the pharmaceutical industry, significantly reducing time-to-market. In just three and a half years, it has grown to support more than 70 customers worldwide, including six of the world's top ten pharmaceutical companies. This surge reflects a larger industry shift as analysts expect the AI-powered drug discovery market to jump from $3.6B in 2024 to nearly $50B by 2034. 

At the core of ChemLex's platform is a 24/7 autonomous chemistry system that accelerates chemical discovery, making it far more cost-efficient and significantly more sustainable than traditional laboratory methods. Driving this is an innovative AI-powered, fully automated synthesis line, which runs experiments autonomously, captures data in real-time, and transforms chemical discovery from a stop-start process into a smooth workflow.

The new funding will support the hiring of more hardware and software engineers, as well as chemists in Singapore, enabling the company to serve a broader pipeline of pharmaceutical and materials science projects. 

Sean Lin, Founder and CEO of ChemLex: "We're building an R&D engine that compresses months of synthesis and optimisation into weeks or even days, transforming both the speed and certainty of discovery. Singapore strengthens this effort and provides us an ecosystem to scale rapidly and support partners globally who need this capability now."

Yinghui Kuang, Partner at Granite Asia: "AI-enabled chemistry is creating one of the most important industrial transitions of the decade, and ChemLex sits in that sweet spot, turning that shift into a business advantage with a platform that can accelerate molecule design and manufacturing at scale. This is the type of deeptech company that can reshape supply chains, shorten development timelines, and unlock new economic value, and Singapore gives them the foundation to grow."