Nicolas Sawaya
Founder
Now Founder, Azulene Labs
Latest on AI4S.fyiFunding · Sep 23 · founderAzulene Labs · Pre-seed · $3.4MAccount linked from nicolassawaya.com · Avatar from their X account, taken 2026-09-28
Affiliations
Current
- Founder · Azulene Labs
Also named in the companies' announcements: Harvard
Current roles come from these dated records, not from the bio below. Each links the page it was read from.
About
Nicolas Sawaya co-founded Azulene Labs, which builds physics-based AI models trained on quantum-mechanical data to predict molecular properties and binding. He founded it after leading quantum algorithm development for chemistry at Intel Labs. He is a theoretical chemical physicist with a PhD in chemical physics from Harvard, as well as degrees in mechanical engineering, chemistry and physics.
Read on 2026-09-29; for current roles see Affiliations above. Read at: azulenelabs.com ↗ · nicolassawaya.com ↗
Founded
Azulene LabsMaterials and chemistry · 1 round on record · disclosed $3.4M · Pre-seed $3.4MBackground: Intel Labs (led quantum algorithms for chemistry); Harvard PhD (as the company's own announcements put it)
Backed byGround State Ventures
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