Co-founder, Executive Software Lead
DigiChem · New York
- Co-founded a chemical synthesis startup with two chemists
- Raised a seed round with MVP
- Lead / mentored a team of three engineers
- Heavy involvement with strategy, market research, investor relations etc.
- Product: a custom ERP/MRP for novel specialty chemical synthesis and optimization
- LLM-powered workflows used cheminformatics tools such as retrosynthesis, property prediction, and vendor price lists to propose and optimize synthetic routes
- Company shut down summer of 2026 due to lack of product-market fit and overall shrinking of the specialty chemical research industry