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ChemPilot.ai

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Founded 2026Origin source ↗Checked 2026-10-19

Overview

ChemPilot accelerates the discovery and development of next generation defense materials using AI and data from our automated wet lab. Developing a new material today takes 10+ years of trial and error. We compress that to months by screening for what can actually be made, then closing the loop: every lab result feeds back into the models so the next round is faster and smarter.

Sam, Ofir and Maor spent two years researching these materials at the Technion lab of our CSO, Prof. Alon Grinberg Dana (former MIT postdoc), working directly with defense primes and government R&D agencies. Together we bring chemical engineering, computational chemistry and AI, plus the production systems to put them to work. ChemPilot spun out of that research.

The West’s defense and dual-use industrial base runs on materials with fragile, sole-source and often adversarial supply chains. Demand for new capability is surging, and materials still take decades to develop. We’re building a new kind of chemical prime: one that can discover, develop and ultimately manufacture the materials the West needs, securely, fast and at cost.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08

Founders & team

Sam Cogan

Founder/CEO

Founder at ChemPilot.ai. MSc in Biochemical Engineering from Technion. Love competing, both in business and in any sport.

Founder profile As recorded 2026-10-19

Maor Goldman

Founder

Founder at ChemPilot.ai | Ethical Hacker | BS Computer Engineering from Technion | Served in 8200

Founder profile As recorded 2026-10-19

Ofir Simhi

Founder/CTO

Founder and CTO at ChemPilot.ai. Previously a full-stack developer, one of the first developers in an acquired startup (Skiff, acquired by Notion), and a main developer in another acquired startup (StoreMaven, acquired by Zynga). BSc. in Biochemical Engineering.

Founder profile As recorded 2026-10-19
3team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-10-19

Founded 2026 · Source

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Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA
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