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Osium AI

Speed up materials innovation with Artificial Intelligence

osium.ai
HQ: Paris, Île-de-France, France
1-10
B2B

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Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals

Updated Jul 29, 2026

Overview

Paris-based Osium AI (YC S23) builds an AI-powered platform for materials and chemicals R&D, helping industrial teams predict properties, design experiments, characterize materials, and optimize scale-up/manufacturing faster.

Primary product

Unified AI-powered software platform for materials and chemicals R&D

Founded

2023

Headquarters

Paris, France (41 Rue du Colisée, 75008 Paris)

Team size

1-10 employees

Industry

Software Development

Sub-industry

Materials informatics / AI for materials and chemicals R&D

Offices

41 Rue du Colisée, 75008 Paris, France
Paris, France

Business model

B2B SaaS
enterprise software
demo-led sales

Funding

Stage

Seed

Total raised

$3.1M

Latest round

Bpifrance additional funding / non-equity assistance · Sep 2024

Latest amount

$1M

Bpifrance additional funding / non-equity assistance

Sep 2024 · Bpifrance

$1M

Seed Round

Nov 2023 · Y Combinator / Singular / Kima Ventures / Collaborative Fund

$2.6M

Pre-Seed Round

Sep 2023 · Y Combinator

$500K

Corporate Round

Jun 2023

People & investors

Leadership

Sarah Najmark

Co-founder & CEO

Luisa Bouneder

Co-founder & CTO

Investors

Atomico
Bpifrance
Collaborative Fund
Ebert HERA Group
Isaac Oates
Julien Chaumond
Kima Ventures
Liz Wessel
Patrick Joubert
Raise Phiture
Singular
Thomas Clozel
Y Combinator

Work & culture

Mission-driven, cross-disciplinary, fast-growing, and ambitious; public materials emphasize results, audacity, growth mindset, creativity, collaboration, diversity, and inclusion.

Compensation

Public YC job postings in Paris show €40K-€70K base salary bands for AI Engineer and Data Scientist roles, and €50K-€70K plus competitive equity for a Full-Stack Engineer; broader comp policy is not public.

Benefits

competitive equity

Product & market

Pricing

Not public; demo-led enterprise/quote-based pricing

Differentiators

  • —10x faster materials and chemicals development/analysis claim
  • —Transparent models that are not black boxes
  • —Works with sparse, unstructured, and incomplete datasets
  • —End-to-end workflow from formulation to scale-up and manufacturing
  • —Multimodal proprietary AI
  • —Scientist-friendly interface
  • —Security and privacy emphasis
  • —Domain expertise in materials science and AI

Technology

Vercel
Next.js
AWS
TypeScript
Tailwind CSS
Python
Google Analytics

Customers

Aperam
FILAB
50+ materials and chemicals innovators (claimed)
Industrial leaders in textiles, chemicals, polymers, composites, alloys, bio-based materials

Competitors

Citrine Informatics
MaterialsZone
Polymerize
Aionics
Kebotix
Schrödinger
ExoMatter
Atinary SDLabs
NobleAI
CuspAI

Scale & contact

Estimated revenue

under $1M

Estimated monthly visits

1.9K

Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026

contact@osium.ai

Latest news

Our CEO to Join "Implementing AI along the Composites Value Chain" Panel at JEC

Osium AI · Jan 2025

Osium AI promoted CEO Sarah Najmark’s appearance on a JEC World 2025 panel about AI across the composites value chain in Paris.

Osium AI joins a consortium to lead innovation in materials and chemicals discovery with AI

Osium AI · Nov 2024

Osium AI announced participation in a consortium with research and industry partners including Sorbonne University, CNRS, Expiris, Fluorotechnique, PCAS, Maestria, and Atem Composites.

Aperam chose Osium AI to speed up the development of new alloys with AI

Osium AI · Oct 2024

Osium published a case study on Aperam using its platform to model a cryogenic alloy and compress a multi-year R&D effort into minutes of AI-assisted exploration.

Sarah Najmark won the 2024 Prize for the AI Woman Engineer

Osium AI / Tilder · Oct 2024

Osium AI said CEO Sarah Najmark received the 2024 AI Woman Engineer Prize from French Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne, highlighting her work and the company’s visibility in French AI.

New funding announcement: €1M additional funding from Bpifrance

Osium AI · Sep 2024

Osium AI announced €1M additional funding from Bpifrance, positioned as support for its mission to transform materials R&D and accelerate industrial innovation.

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