Scimplify Raises $25 Million: Powering India’s $1 Trillion Materials Decade

Key Takeaways

• Scimplify secures $25 million in a strategic funding round led by Hitachi Ventures, with participation from Teknor Apex, Henkel, a leading Japanese chemical firm, Accel, Bertelsmann, Omnivore, and 3one4 Capital, bringing total capital raised to $80 million.
• Co-founded in 2023 by Sachin Santhosh, Salil Srivastava, Dheeraj Dhingra, and Hersh Manek, Scimplify powers India's transition from importing specialty molecules to manufacturing advanced materials at global scale.
• Operating an asset-light network of 500+ qualified manufacturing partners alongside its SciNode AI platform, Scimplify is expanding into US critical metals, battery materials, GPU cooling chemicals, and semiconductor supply chains.

For decades, India imported its core molecules, relying on global supply chains for critical specialty chemicals, battery inputs, and semiconductor materials. Now, India's $1 trillion materials decade has begun as the nation transitions from importing core formulations to manufacturing them at global scale. Co-founded in 2023 by Sachin Santhosh, Salil Srivastava, Dheeraj Dhingra, and Hersh Manek, Scimplify was built to lead this structural shift, unifying R&D, process engineering, and distributed manufacturing into a single science-first operating system.

The platform has now raised $25 million in a strategic funding round led by Hitachi Ventures, with participation from Teknor Apex, Henkel, a leading Japanese chemical enterprise, Accel, Bertelsmann India Investments, Omnivore, and 3one4 Capital. The investment brings Scimplify’s total disclosed funding to $80 million, accelerating the company's mission to construct the primary technology transfer corridor connecting global material science innovation with precision manufacturing capacity.
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Global Traction and Operating Model

Scimplify has established rapid commercial traction across international markets, serving over 1,000 innovator customers in 40 countries. The platform directs more than 40 per cent of its product portfolio toward high-value advanced materials powering semiconductor fabrication, energy storage systems, and critical mineral supply chains.

At the core of Scimplify's operating system is a distributed manufacturing network that orchestrates research, development, and commercial production across more than 500 qualified manufacturing partners and thousands of technical experts. This agile infrastructure coordinates resilient supply chains across key industrial hubs in India, the United States, and international markets.

Underpinning this infrastructure is SciNode, Scimplify’s proprietary AI platform. SciNode automates complex synthesis route prediction, simulates factory production kinetics, and integrates regulatory, quality, and raw material sourcing workflows into a unified digital interface.

By aligning high-precision scientific execution with global macro shifts, including the expansion of AI data infrastructure, heightened national defence requirements, and active supply chain diversificatio,Scimplify consolidates its position as a primary partner for international materials science innovation.
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Productising the Advanced Materials Stack

Translating a new chemical formulation from a few hundred grams in a laboratory to commercial-scale production typically takes two to three years. The resulting lag creates a severe bottleneck between scientific discovery and industrial supply, stymying the commercialisation of frontier technologies across energy storage, electronics, and specialised industrial applications. When material science breakthroughs remain trapped in multi-year technology transfer cycles, global manufacturing supply chains lose velocity and price predictability degrades.

Scimplify addresses this challenge by integrating process development and distributed manufacturing into a single system. Working directly with global innovators and delivering proven formulations, Scimplify’s technical teams manage process engineering, technology integration, pilot batches, and validation. Deploying its SciNode AI platform alongside physical R&D facilities in Bengaluru and Hyderabad accelerates time-to-market while ensuring strict quality compliance and safety standards.

Combining artificial intelligence with physical chemical engineering yields immediate operational advantages across the manufacturing lifecycle:

• Automated Synthesis Route Prediction: SciNode evaluates thousands of potential chemical reaction pathways in seconds, selecting synthesis routes that maximise reaction yields while minimising energy consumption and hazardous waste generation.
• Factory Production Simulation: Simulating reaction kinetics across virtual factory models identifies thermal and mechanical bottlenecks prior to physical pilot runs, reducing batch failure rates to near zero and protecting partner facility capital.
• Integrated Regulatory and Sourcing Workflows: Automating raw material tracking, environmental compliance documentation, and multi-jurisdictional logistics ensures seamless international export approval and complete auditability.

By functioning as a science-first operating partner, Scimplify converts complex, custom formulations into scalable, repeatably manufactured industrial products. Innovators gain a reliable pathway from lab-scale synthesis to multi-tonne commercial shipments without incurring the heavy capital expenditure required to build dedicated manufacturing plants, allowing capital to flow directly into core research and market expansion.
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Aligning with Global Macro Tailwinds Across AI, Defence, and Supply Chain Realignment

The global industrial sector is undergoing a structural realignment driven by massive investments in artificial intelligence infrastructure, rising national defence requirements, and a permanent shift toward diversified, resilient supply networks. Scimplify operates at the centre of these macro tailwinds, supplying specialised chemistries into high-growth, high-precision end markets.

1. Global AI and Energy Infrastructure Buildout: The rapid expansion of high-density computing clusters and clean energy systems demands advanced chemical inputs, including GPU immersion cooling fluids, dielectric materials, solar-grade chemicals, and grid storage components. Scimplify's industrial portfolio directly powers this infrastructure buildout, delivering high-purity formulations that meet the rigorous thermal and electrical demands of modern data centres and energy networks.
2. Defence and National Security Material Autonomy: Securing national defence infrastructure requires reliable access to high-purity energetics, semiconductor chemicals, and critical metals. By providing verified, high-purity formulations produced through audited partner facilities, Scimplify enables aerospace and defence contractors to secure resilient, sovereign supply lines insulated from international trade disruptions.
3. Capitalising on Supply Chain Realignment: Global buyers are actively diversifying procurement toward India as a long-term strategic manufacturing partner. Because Scimplify owns the proprietary synthesis routes, regulatory filings, and quality assurance processes for every molecule on its platform, the company provides international buyers with complete intellectual property protection, regulatory compliance, and supply chain transparency without requiring capital-heavy factory ownership.
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Expanding Global Manufacturing Infrastructure and Critical Mineral Processing

Building supply chain resilience in advanced materials requires deep technical execution across international borders. Scimplify is deploying fresh capital to expand its research and processing footprint in the United States, targeting chemistries where domestic processing capabilities remain limited.

The US expansion focuses on rare earth and critical metals purification, along with high-purity semiconductor and battery chemicals needed for domestic clean energy and microelectronics supply chains. By pairing physical processing infrastructure in the US with qualified American manufacturing partners, Scimplify is creating a secure technology transfer corridor anchored by India’s high-precision manufacturing capacity and technical talent pool.

Collaborations with global industrial leaders, including Hitachi, Henkel, and Teknor Apex, validate Scimplify's science-first operating model. As multinational corporations seek resilient, multi-region supply architectures, Scimplify provides the transparent, tech-enabled manufacturing backbone required to sustain high-precision industrial production across global markets.
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Our Conviction: Partnering for Material Science Leadership

At 3one4 Capital, our investment thesis in deeptech and manufacturing automation focuses on IP-led platforms that bridge laboratory innovation with industrial-scale execution. We backed Sachin Santhosh, Salil Srivastava, Dheeraj Dhingra, and Hersh Manek at the seed stage, convinced that India's next economic chapter will be written in material science and advanced manufacturing.

Executing complex technology transfer across multi-jurisdictional chemical supply chains demands extraordinary domain expertise and operational discipline. Sachin, Salil, Dheeraj, and Hersh have demonstrated the vision and velocity to turn India's manufacturing potential into a global competitive advantage.

Congratulations to Sachin, Salil, Dheeraj, Hersh, and the entire Scimplify team as they scale the operating platform for global advanced materials. We are proud to continue supporting Scimplify as they build the foundational material infrastructure powering the next decade of industrial growth.
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