AI-for-science startup raises $1B Series A led by Kleiner Perkins and Clearlake
bneyshabur · x · 2026-11-13
Behnam Neyshabur announced his company's $1B Series A, led by Kleiner Perkins and Clearlake, with Battery Ventures, Doerr Capital, Elad Gil, Google, M13, Pear VC, S32 and others participating.
"Capital is a means, not an end" — the stated mission is radical leverage for scientists: one person doing what took a team, a team doing what took an institution.
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