Lee Cronin
Researcher · Founder
Now Founder, Chemify
Latest on AI4S.fyiFunding · Sep 16 · founderChemify · Series B extension · Series B extended to £51.9M ($70M) in totalAccount links back to croninlab.com · Avatar from their X account, taken 2026-09-28
Affiliations
Current
- Founder · Chemify
Current roles come from these dated records, not from the bio below. Each links the page it was read from.
About
Lee Cronin founded Chemify in 2022 and is its CEO. He holds the Regius Chair of Chemistry in the School of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow, where his group works on digitising and automating chemical synthesis (the Chemputer). He earned his PhD in chemistry at the University of York.
Read on 2026-09-29; for current roles see Affiliations above. Read at: chemify.io ↗ · gla.ac.uk ↗
Selected work
- Organic synthesis in a modular robotic system driven by a chemical programming language ↗
A modular robot that runs organic syntheses written in a chemical programming language.
Each byline was read on the paper itself. Only people on this record are named, not the full author list, and a shared byline does not say who did which part.
Founded
ChemifyAutonomous labs · 2022 · 4 rounds on record · disclosed $43M · Series B extension Series B extended to £51.9M ($70M) in totalBackground: University of Glasgow (chemistry professor) (as the company's own announcements put it)
Backed byZeon VenturesWing Venture CapitalInsight PartnersTriatomic Capital
On the timeline
- 2026-04-07Lee Cronin, Chemify's founder, argues in PNAS that a Chemputer with step-by-step error correction could in principle make any stable molecule, and re-reads 117 robot runs to back it
- 2026-04-03An LLM agent from Cronin's group, whose founder leads Chemify, turns published procedures into robot code and runs six of them
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