
ChemPilot.ai
ChemPilot.ai is a YC Fall 2026 (F26) company. Based in Haifa, Haifa District, Israel. Team of 3.
About ChemPilot.ai
Summary
ChemPilot.ai accelerates the discovery of novel materials for defense and dual-use applications, including energetics, propellants, carbon fibers, specialty polymers, coatings, and composites. Its customers are defense primes and government R&D agencies that today spend over a decade on trial-and-error lab work to qualify a new material. ChemPilot.ai replaces that process with physics-based simulation, machine learning, and AI agents that screen candidates for synthesizability before anything reaches a lab, compressing development timelines from years to months.
Go-to-market
Defense primes and government R&D agencies are the primary buyers, engaged through direct relationships built during the team's research at the Technion and through existing ties to the defense industrial base.
From the Y Combinator listing
Discover novel defense related materials/molecules.
We use AI and quantum-based simulations to discover and develop new materials for defense and dual-use applications, from energetics and propellants to carbon fibers, polymers, coatings and composites. Developing a new material today takes 10+ years of trial-and-error lab work. We compress that to months, using physics-based simulation, machine learning and AI agents that only send labs candidates that can actually be made. Sam, Ofir and Maor have spent the past two years researching the discovery of these exact materials together 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 deep expertise in chemical engineering, computational chemistry and AI, and the production systems to put them to work. ChemPilot spun out of that work. The defense and dual-use industrial base runs on materials with fragile, sole-source and often adversarial supply chains, from energetics and propellants to carbon fibers, high-temperature composites and specialty polymers. Demand for new capabilities is surging, and materials take decades to develop. The West needs new materials it can make securely, fast and cheap - ChemPilot will help find and develop them.
Facts
- Industrials / Industrials -> Defense
- Haifa, Haifa District, Israel
- 3
- Active
- Early
Founders (3)
- Maor Goldman
- Ofir Simhi
- Sam Cogan
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