Exclusive: Apoha, a startup building AI models for creating new materials, emerges from stealth with $36 million Series A funding round
Apoha, a startup focused on AI models for creating new materials, has raised $36 million in Series A funding. The company aims to leverage unique wave data generated by materials to enhance their properties and applications. Apoha's technology could significantly impact industries such as pharmaceuticals and food production by predicting material behaviors with high precision.
- ▪Apoha has developed a method called 'liquid intelligence' to analyze materials using wave forms generated in liquid.
- ▪The startup's first commercial product, VIBE, captures over 1,000 descriptors of material behavior in minutes.
- ▪Apoha's technology has shown to outperform traditional tests in predicting drug candidate failures, potentially saving the pharmaceutical industry millions.
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Apoha, a deep tech startup that is building AI models for creating new kinds of substances—from proteins to food products to paints—based on a new kind of data about how materials behave, is emerging from stealth today with $36 million in venture capital funding.The funding round, which is the London- and San Francisco-based startup’s Series A, is being led by European venture capital firm Singular, with participation from Draper Associates and continued backing from existing seed investors Redalpine, Seedcamp, Wilbe, and Nucleus.
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