Kevin Weil
Founder
Now Advisor, Transfyr; Founder, Warp Sciences
Latest on AI4S.fyiFunding · Oct 22 · founderWarp Sciences · Round (unnamed) · $215MAccount confirmed by the editor · Avatar from their X account, taken 2026-10-22
Affiliations
Current
- Advisor · Transfyr
- Founder · Warp Sciences
Previous
Current roles come from these dated records, not from the bio below. Each links the page it was read from.
Founded
Warp SciencesAutonomous labs · 1 round on record · disclosed $215M · Round (unnamed) $215MBackground: OpenAI (Chief Product Officer, then VP of Science) (as the company's own announcements put it)
Co-founders: Sol Reisberg, Manohar Paluri, DJ Patil
Backed byLightspeed
On the timeline
- 2026-10-22Kevin Weil, OpenAI's former head of science, launches Warp Sciences with $215M led by Lightspeed, to build a US chemistry lab it plans to automate
- 2026-08-26Transfyr launches with a $25M seed led by General Catalyst to record how lab work is actually done; ARPA-H's founding director is a co-founder
- 2026-04-17Kevin Weil leaves OpenAI as OpenAI for Science is split into other research teams
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