キャタリス、化学業界のAIを強化するために5,000万円を獲得

Cataris Inc., a developer of AI agents for the chemical and materials industries, is pleased to announce that it has raised a total of 50 million yen in seed funding through a third-party allotment of new shares, underwritten by CyberAgent Capital, Inc. and ANOBAKA Inc., to accelerate the development of a “Material Profiling AI Platform” in which AI agents analyze the characteristics of materials and automate and speed up the discovery of uses and proposals for improvements.

Cataris’ vision is for humans and AI to work together to create new value in industries around the world , and it is developing AI agents specialized for the chemical industry.

Traditionally, exploring new uses for materials and proposing improvements has relied on the experience and personal knowledge of researchers and sales representatives, or on analog methods such as roller sales, making it difficult to balance “exploration speed” with “reproducibility of proposals.” Furthermore, the last mile of “material to market” is an area that is difficult to solve with traditional machine learning or general SaaS (Software as a Service) due to structural reasons such as being centered on unstructured data, multi-objective judgment, and scarcity and delay of result labels. カタリス は、AIエージェントを活用した分析と提案の自動生成により、これらの課題を解決します。

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Our unique “Material Profiling AI Platform” performs cross-sectional analysis of material data, research papers, patents, public databases, etc., and by utilizing our proprietary property prediction tools and ontology technology, our AI agents automatically generate potential uses and directions for improvement for materials. This dramatically improves the speed of on-site considerations in research and development, business development, and sales proposals.

現在、大手・二流メーカー（樹脂・フィルム、油脂、ゴム、食品）を中心に複数の共同実証を実施中。現在、約10素材の検証を行っており、短期間で新たな用途が発見され、ビジネスが拡大する事例が出始めています。従来の開発・提案期間の約50%で新規用途を発見できた事例もあります。

今回調達した資金は、AIエージェントの精度向上と材料プロファイリングAI基盤の確立に注力し、化学業界向けに複数のAI製品を開発・提供するほか、エンジニアリング担当副社長（VPoE）の採用と開発チームの拡充に充てられます。

In the future, we aim to realize a “new industrial structure” that circulates AI and knowledge across departments such as research, development, and sales.

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