Top 10 Startups developing AI for Scientific Research

Updated: February 27, 2024

Machine learning systems can process scientific big data to find patterns and dependencies that are most likely to succeed. For example thus scientists can obtain new drugs, materials, genomes.
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Country: USA | Funding: $974.1M
Zymergen uses machine learning to discover and engineers microbe genomes to produce new molecular products for new materials.
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Country: USA | Funding: $58.3M
Descartes Labs is building a data refinery for satellite imagery. For organizations that want to harness this power and enable computation at global scale, it's necessary to have a data refinery that combines data from multiple sources, cleans it up and makes it ready for science.
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Country: UK | Funding: £32.7M
Cervest is building an AI-first platform to help businesses, governments and growers adapt to climate volatility, and protect our planet.
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Country: France | Funding: $35M
Bioptimus is a developer of a universal AI foundation model for biology.
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Country: UK | Funding: $32M
PhysicsX is a developer of AI and simulation engineering technologies to reinvent the design and operation of machines and products.
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Country: Switzerland | Funding: $29.7M
Using robust prediction algorithms and AI design recommendations, Cradle assists biologists in rapidly designing better proteins.
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Country: Norway | Funding: $20.3M
Iris is an AI Science Assistant, helping R&D double productivity when seeking out new opportunities in published research. Iris.ai uses a combination of keyword extraction, word embeddings, neural topic modeling, word importance based similarity of document metrics and hierarchical topic modeling. The approach is mainly unsupervised but we utilize an evaluated annotation set from our community of AI Trainers for benchmarking and improving our tools.
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Country: USA
Omnity is focused on highly efficient knowledge discovery. It uses AI to search for the “combination” or “intersection” of Paper 1 and Paper 2.
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Country: Denmark | Funding: $3.1M
UNSILO provides artificial intelligence tools and solutions for publishers to grow new business opportunities and improve customer experience and publishing workflows
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Country: USA | Funding: €1.9M
JADBio’s robust AutoML tool provides a complete spectrum of data-analysis services in all phases of a scientific or business analytics study.
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Country: UK | Funding: £1.3M
Rahko is building quantum discovery capabilities for chemical simulation, which could enable groundbreaking advances in batteries, chemicals, advanced materials and drugs.
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Country: USA
Semantic Scholar is an academic search engine from Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence. It too uses AI to search the academic literature and it is impressively fast.
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Country: Belgium
BioLizard is a bioinformatics and AI company that provides innovative solutions for all your scientific data needs.
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Country: Australia
Green Dynamics is a Australian company that offers services on designs, manufactures and wholesales lighting.