For the past two years, we've been quietly building something we weren't ready to talk about. Until now.
No website. No PR. No social presence. Just our team, working hard with our customers.
Why? Because the chemical industry has seen too many promises and not enough proof. We wanted to earn the right to go public by delivering results first.
Today, Kimia is out of stealth.
I grew up watching my father be the smartest person in every room at his chemical company.
Formulation decisions. Customer specs. Quality tradeoffs. Regulatory calls.
Everything flowed through his judgment. He trained under a Nobel Prize winner and built a business on that expertise.
He was also the bottleneck. When he wasn't available, everything stopped.
Years later, after completing my own PhD in Chemical Engineering, helping scale my father's manufacturing business, and commercialising a waterless technology to clean cars without a drop of water, I saw the same pattern everywhere.
A $5 trillion market where every critical decision still depends on a shrinking group of experts, disconnected systems, and software that was never built for chemistry.
That's the problem we set out to solve. We call it chemical intelligence. And we built it quietly.
And now, we're ready to talk about it.
Kimia is an AI-native operating system for the chemical industry. Not a point solution. Not a chatbot on top of PDFs. Chemical intelligence that spans how products are developed, regulated, sold, distributed, and troubleshooted.
One system that connects technical, commercial, and regulatory knowledge around a unified product model - built from the ground up to reason about chemistry the way an experienced expert does.
Chemical intelligence already powers hundreds of thousands of chemical products across our customers' value chains - from development through to sales & distribution. Industry leaders including Univar Solutions, Stahl, Arkema, tesa trusted us before we had a public presence.
Backed by $7M from Airtree, Blackbird, Skip Capital - the investors behind Canva, Airwallex, Culture Amp, and Atlassian - with our first angel cheque from Pedram Afshar.
To my father - this started with you.
To our customers and partners who believed in us before anyone knew our name - you shaped this product. This launch belongs to you.
To my co-founder Sajjad, early founding members Masood and Sadra, and the entire Kimia team - I'm proud to finally show the world what we've been building.
We're hiring and just getting started. For more info, visit Kimia.ai
Elicia McDonald Sid Kasbekar Niki Scevak Kim Jackson Olivia Sioud (Grivas) Simone Tai
