Founded: 2024
Founders: Linden Schrecker, Cristian Holtze (BASF), Mimi Hill and Klaus Hellgardt
CEO: Linden Schrecker

 

SOLVE Chemistry team

Arising out of collaborative research between Imperial and BASF, SOLVE enables optimal chemical process condition selection in the agrochemical and pharmaceutical industries. SOLVE twins efficient empirical data collection with machine learning to provide efficient solutions to chemical process problems. The spinout already has a revenue generating project in the agrochemical space, recently completed a £780k pre-seed round and is currently hiring an interdisciplinary Machine Learning, Chemistry, and Chemical Engineering team.

Media:

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/next-generation-synthesis-reaction-technology/solve/

https://www.ukri.org/news/spin-out-solve-to-digitally-transform-chemical-manufacturing/

https://cen.acs.org/synthesis/process-chemistry/Imperial-BASF-create-AI-spin-off/102/i22

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/articles/2025/imperial-and-solve-chemistry-bring-chemical-reaction-data-to-machine-learning/