# Tetsuwan Scientific: company

Canonical ID: `1678a465-90a4-4979-a518-932900565343`

## Key facts

- **CEO:** Cristian Ponce (Co-founder, Caltech biological engineering)
- **CTO:** Theo Schafer (Co-founder, ETH Zurich / MIT)
- **Pre-seed:** $2.7M (November 2024, led by 2048 Ventures)
- **Team size:** 7 people (Caltech, ETH Zurich, MIT, UC Davis)
- **Advisor:** Aaron Kimball (former CTO of Zymergen)

- **Slug:** tetsuwan-scientific
- **Founded:** 2023
- **HQ:** San Francisco, CA, USA
- **Funding total (USD):** 2700000

## Models

- [Tetsuwan AI Scientist](/models/tetsuwan-ai-scientist.md) (other) (id: `c58f0bab-7a8f-45fc-accd-fae12665f188`)

## Current leadership (2)

- [Theo Schafer](/people/theo-schafer.md) CTO & Co-founder (_reported, not verified_)
- [Cristian Ponce](/people/cristian-ponce.md) CEO & Co-founder (_reported, not verified_)

## Founders (2)

- [Cristian Ponce](/people/cristian-ponce.md) (cofounder)
- [Theo Schafer](/people/theo-schafer.md) (cofounder)

## Supplies to

_No verified supply relationships on file. Supply-chain coverage is being added across the registry; check back as the seed populates this company's outbound edges._

_Outbound supply edges. Each appears when verified with at least two strong sources. Sources are append-only; corrections add new sources rather than rewrite history._

## Sources (1)

1. https://www.synbiobeta.com/read/first-autonomous-robotic-scientist-launched-as-tetsuwan-scientific-secures-2-7m

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