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Basetwo Raises $11.5M Series A to Transform Chemical Manufacturing with Physics AI Platform
Basetwo, an AI platform for manufacturing engineers, announced it has raised USD $11.5M in Series A funding led by AVP with participation from existing investor Glasswing Ventures, Deloitte Ventures, Global Brain Ventures, Shimadzu Corporation, Chiyoda Corporation, and prominent UAE angel investors via Qora71. The investment allows the company to accelerate its mission to revolutionize how pharmaceutical and chemical manufacturers optimize their production processes.
When launching new drug compounds or chemical formulations to market, manufacturers must precisely determine numerous production parameters — from reactor temperatures to mixing speeds — while maintaining strict quality standards. At the commercial scale, teams must continuously verify production performance, identify issues, and implement corrective actions to ensure optimal batch quality. Traditional machine learning approaches relying solely on historical data struggle with these complex manufacturing processes, as they can only learn from correlations rather than the underlying physics and chemistry engineers use to control and troubleshoot these systems. This technology gap leads to significant inefficiencies, with 20 cents of every dollar spent in manufacturing going to waste — a staggering global loss of $8 trillion annually.
Basetwo’s Physics AI platform uniquely combines fundamental chemical engineering principles with artificial intelligence to optimize pharmaceutical and chemical manufacturing processes. This results in an up to 40% improvement in cycle times and raw material usage while helping customers achieve a 25% improvement in product quality. The platform enables manufacturers to run virtual experiments and simulate process changes before implementation, significantly reducing the time and cost traditionally required to optimize production processes and eliminating the risks associated with live testing.
The funding will accelerate the development of Basetwo’s AutoPilot technology for autonomous, real-time manufacturing control while expanding the company’s presence in the US, Japan, Europe, and the Middle East. Basetwo will continue growing its business development, AI, and software engineering teams to support increasing market demand.