Dunia Innovations GmbH is a Berlin-based deep-tech company building an autonomous materials acceleration platform that combines frontier AI with robotic laboratory automation to radically speed up the discovery of advanced materials. Its flagship system, IRIS (Intelligent Research and Innovation System), integrates generative AI, high-throughput robotics, automated fabrication, and multimodal analytics to discover and validate functional materials up to 10× faster and at a fraction of conventional R&D cost — compressing typical 20-year discovery timelines down to roughly two years.

Founded in 2022 by scientists and engineers from the University of Cambridge and the University of Glasgow, Dunia focuses initially on energy materials including catalysts for green hydrogen and ammonia production, CO₂ conversion, and battery chemistries. Its platform generates the world's largest unbiased, reproducible, and industrially validated materials dataset to train domain-specific AI models. The second-generation IRIS platform went live in May 2025, and in 2026 the company unveiled the GigaLab — a planned €280 million, 6,000 m² autonomous R&D facility in Berlin backed by Siemens, ABB Robotics, NVIDIA, AWS, and ILS, targeting operations from 2028.

Dunia serves industrial customers in catalysts, batteries, and semiconductors, and has signed commercial partnerships worth over $58 million within its first four months of commercialization. Strategic collaborators include Anglo American, Hitachi High-Tech Europe, Matteco, Siemens Energy, BASF, and Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB). The company is backed by Elaia, redalpine, Pace Ventures, Kindred Capital, Deep Science Ventures, the European Innovation Council (EIC), and prominent angels including Recursion CEO Chris Gibson and Chemify CEO Prof. Lee Cronin.