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Companies that started
as research

Every company here started with a technical insight: a paper, a model, a system. We invested at pre-seed or seed and have worked alongside each team since.

09
Companies
04
University spinouts
03
Focus areas
100%
Technical founders
HelixaPre-seed

Protein design models that help industrial biotech teams engineer enzymes in fewer wet-lab cycles.

AI for scienceSpinout
Lattice LabsSeed

Generative models that propose and rank candidate battery materials before synthesis.

AI for scienceSpinout
KernelworksSeed

A compiler that auto-tunes ML kernels across GPUs and custom accelerators, without rewrites.

Dev infraML
TensorgradePre-seed

Evaluation and regression testing for models in production, so teams know when a new model is actually better.

MLDev infra
MonsoonSeed

Weather and flood nowcasting models built for the tropics, sold to insurers and city operators.

AI for scienceML
SparsePre-seed

An inference runtime that uses sparsity to run large models on edge hardware.

ML
AssayPre-seed

Orchestration software that lets wet labs run experiments autonomously, guided by active learning.

AI for scienceSpinout
QuireSeed

Retrieval and data infrastructure for scientific literature, figures and lab notebooks.

Dev infra
RefractPre-seed

Differentiable optics simulation for photonic chip design.

AI for scienceSpinout

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