Artificial Intelligence
Autoscience
A startup building the world's first automated AI research lab, deploying virtual, non-human 'AI Scientists and Engineers' that read literature, generate hypotheses, and build production-ready machine learning models for enterprise clients. Autoscience raised a $14 million seed round in March 2026 led by General Catalyst with participation from Toyota Ventures, Perplexity Fund, MaC Ventures and S32, founded by ex-Google X engineers Eliot Cowan (CEO) and Charles Spirakis (CTO).
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- Business Wire — Autoscience raises $14M seed to build automated AI research lab54% source confidence
- R&D World — Autoscience's Carl becomes first autonomous AI system to place in a featured Kaggle competition48% source confidence
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Jan 2024 · Founded by ex-Google X engineers
Autoscience was founded by former Google X engineers Eliot Cowan (CEO) and Charles Spirakis (CTO) to build an automated AI research lab.
Dec 2025 · Carl earns silver medal in Kaggle Santa 2025, first for a fully autonomous system
Autoscience's AI agent Carl earned a silver medal in the Kaggle Santa 2025 competition against 3,300 teams, which the company says is the first time a fully autonomous AI system has placed in a featured Kaggle competition; Carl also became what Autoscience calls the first AI system to produce peer-reviewed academic research, alongside a second agent, Mira, which reads over 1,200 papers per week and ships improvements into customer models.
Mar 2026 · $14M seed led by General Catalyst
Autoscience raised a $14 million seed round led by General Catalyst with participation from Toyota Ventures, Perplexity Fund, MaC Ventures and S32, to scale a managed service deploying hundreds of automated AI Research Scientists that continuously generate and ship machine learning model improvements for Fortune 500 clients.