Top 15 Startups developing AI for Scientific Research

Nov 26, 2024 | By Siddhant Patel

These startups create machine learning systems that 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: Switzerland | Funding: $102.7M
Using robust prediction algorithms and AI design recommendations, Cradle assists biologists in rapidly designing better proteins.
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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: Norway | Funding: $28.6M
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 | Funding: $5.5M
Converge Bio integrates Generative AI with biological data.
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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.
Editor: Siddhant Patel
Siddhant Patel is a senior editor for AI-Startups. He is based out of India and has previously worked at publications including Huffington Post and The Next Web. Siddhant has a special interest in artificial intelligence and has spent a decade covering the rapidly-evolving business and technology of the industry. Siddhant graduated from the Indian Institute of Science (Bengaluru). When he’s not writing, Siddhant is also a developer and has a deep historical knowledge of the computer industry for the past 50 years. You can contact Siddhant at sidpatel(at)ai-startups(dot)org