Biography:

Sarah is the co-founder and CEO of Osium AI, an innovative AI-powered platform enabling R&D engineers to develop new materials much faster. With a strong foundation in fundamental sciences from École Centrale Paris, Sarah has led research in materials science and therefore got aware of the difficulties of new materials development. Therefore, she wanted to build the perfect product for the materials industry. She leverages her strong expertise in AI from her Master of Science at Stanford University, where she conducted advanced AI research and taught AI courses. Sarah has a strong expertise in developing end-to-end AI technologies applied to complex systems, honed through her experience as a Tech Lead in AI and Product Manager at Google X, Google’s moonshot division. Sarah holds multiple AI patents in AI and received the 2024 Women in AI Prize in France, awarded by Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne.

About Osium AI:

Osium AI provides an AI-powered software to accelerate materials development. Materials R&D engineers leverage Osium AI’s proprietary AI technology through the platform to formulate, design and analyze their materials much faster. The company was founded by Sarah Najmark and Luisa Bouneder, two French women entrepreneurs. The company raised $2.6M from US and European investors and business angels. The company is backed by Y Combinator, a renowned American start-up accelerator and investor (4000+ funded companies, with a combined valuation of $600B). Osium AI is also supported by the renowned French startups incubators Agoranov and Wilco-Ambitions, and operates from Agoranov’s facilities at 96bis boulevard Raspail, in Paris. The company received 1M euros in additional funding from Bpifrance which recognized the company as a key player to help the materials and chemicals industry. More details on the Company’s mission, services and experience can be found on the company’s website: https://osium.ai.