Chemastery

CheMastery is a London, UK-based chemistry automation company that develops a chemistry-agnostic platform intended to standardise and automate organic chemistry workflows across both research and manufacturing. Its marketed offering is described as the "CheMastery Generation 4 Platform," positioned as a chemistry assistant capable of automating up to 90% of organic chemistry processes from R&D scale through to process scale, with stated aims of reproducibility, scale-up support and efficiency gains [0][3].

The company frames the problem it addresses in three parts: manual synthesis and purification methods that produce slow, costly and inconsistent results and impede standardisation and scalability; low chemical-sector productivity tied to supply chain reliability and logistics bottlenecks; and rising labour costs alongside difficulty retaining skilled chemists, which causes knowledge loss. It states that more than 65% of a chemist's daily work consists of manual, repetitive tasks and that practical chemistry has changed little in over 150 years [0]. Press coverage at the time of its seed round cited a higher figure, with the company estimating roughly 80% of an average chemist's lab time is spent on low-skill manual duties [4].

A third-party company database describes CheMastery as building chemistry automation infrastructure in London, developing pre-commercial demonstrators and co-locating chemists with engineering teams in purpose-built labs, listing the company as private with 1-10 employees and focus areas in chemical engineering, industrial automation and robotics. That source gives a founding year of 2019, which differs from other records [6].