Autoscience

Based in San Mateo, California, Autoscience develops artificial intelligence systems that autonomously conduct complex machine learning research and development. The company operates as an applied research laboratory where its flagship system, Carl, automates the scientific workflow, encompassing hypothesis generation, experimentation, and academic paper writing. Autoscience has raised $14 million in seed funding to scale its operations and provide AI-powered research automation services to enterprise clients seeking proprietary breakthroughs. The organization is financially backed by a syndicate of notable venture capital firms, including General Catalyst, Toyota Ventures, and the Perplexity Fund. Highlighting its technical scale, the autonomous system recently secured a Kaggle silver medal by outperforming over 3,300 human teams and authored peer-reviewed research accepted at major ICLR workshops. Autoscience was founded by former Alphabet X engineer Eliot Cowan, Richard Wiggins, and Nicolo De Ruyter de Wildt.