REDWOOD CITY, Calif.–February 6, 2019 (BUSINESS WIRE)–Citrine Informatics, the leading materials informatics platform for materials development, announced today that Dr. Cynthia Arnold has been elected to its Board of Directors, effective January 31, 2019. Dr. Arnold recently served as the Chief Technology Officer of The Valspar Corporation, where she was responsible for technology strategy, and […]
By Marco Annunziata The convergence of mind and matter, of digital and physical technologies lies at the heart of the fourth industrial revolution. The marriage of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) and materials science represents one of the clearest examples. Pure digital innovation has attracted the greatest attention—and a large share of financial investment—over the last several […]
A vast acceleration in our ability to create new, advanced materials will power industries from energy to manufacturing. By Greg Satell Think of just about any major challenge we will have to face over the next decade and materials are at the center of it. To build a new clean energy future, we need more efficient […]
AI Platform Receives Gold Award for Accelerating Materials and Chemicals Development REDWOOD CITY, Calif.–November 30, 2018, (BUSINESS WIRE)— Citrine Informatics, the leader in materials informatics (MI), has been named Best in Biz Awards Start-up of the Year, and a gold winner. The Best in Biz Awards is the only independent business awards program judged each […]
Many of the young, chemistry-based companies C&EN is tracking made headlines in the past year By Melody M. Bomgardner ATTRACTED CORPORATE PARTNERS AgriMetis (class of 2016) will collaborate with Monsanto on insecticides made from the start-up’s semisynthetic compounds. AgriMetis alters spinosad compounds, made via fermentation, to improve potency and selectivity to specific insects. Citrine Informatics (class of […]
There are early signals of potential disruption along three areas of the chemical value chain, write Alessandro Di Fiore and Gabriele Rosani By Alessandro Di Fiore Several industries have been disrupted by companies with a platform business model. Think of telecommunications and advertising (Google, Facebook, Tencent); retail (Amazon, Alibaba); travel (Booking.com); music (Apple, Spotify); and […]
A summer research fellowship sponsored by Citrine Informatics gave undergraduate students the chance to use cutting-edge computer vision technologies to answer questions about materials’ microstructures. By Alexandra George We all know how powerful images are as a tool for communication, evoking responses and capturing information in a unique way. In materials science and engineering, images […]
AI for Molecular Design Machine-learning algorithms are speeding up the search for novel drugs and materials By Jeff Carbeck Want to design a new material for solar energy, a drug to fight cancer or a compound that stops a virus from attacking a crop? First, you must tackle two challenges: finding the right chemical structure for […]
Crunchbase lists over 5,000 startups who are relying on machine learning for their main and ancillary applications, products and services today. 81% of machine learning startups Crunchbase tracks have had two funding rounds or less with seed, angel and early-stage rounds being the most common. According to KPMG’s Venture Pulse Report, venture capital (VC) investment in artificial […]
Materials informatics is the next frontier of materials science, taking computational and machine learning tools and applying them to characterizing and discovering materials. A group of Colorado School of Mines students spent their summer getting a hands-on introduction to the burgeoning field, thanks to a newly expanded fellowship program. The Citrine NextGen Fellowship, with additional […]
