Apoha
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About
Apoha is a London-based deep-tech company building what it calls “Liquid State Intelligence” — a data layer that measures how molecules and materials actually behave, alongside the existing sequence and structure data classes that underpin modern AI in biology and materials science 12. The company emerged from stealth on June 3, 2026 at the Frontier Technologies Stage at SXSW London with $36 million in total funding raised across a 2024 seed round and a 2026 follow-on round 1.
Apoha was co-founded by Shamit Shrivastava (CEO), an Oxford-trained physicist, and Anshika Srivastava (COO), formerly of Goldman Sachs 23. The platform combines custom experimental hardware to generate proprietary “VIBE” measurement data with AI models trained on that data. The company is already used by pharmaceutical group Boehringer Ingelheim to identify high-risk antibody candidates with greater than 90% precision from just 8 micrograms of material 12.
Funding History
| Date | Round | Amount | Lead | Co-investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-03 | Series A (unlettered follow-on) | $36M total | Singular | Draper Associates, Redalpine, Seedcamp, Wilbe, Nucleus, Innovate UK (grant) 12 |
The $36M figure is cumulative across the 2024 seed round and the 2026 follow-on round announced at exit from stealth 1.
What Investors Say
A partner at Singular said of the investment: “Apoha represents a new generation of European scientific companies where AI is not a future promise, but a practical tool already transforming how biology is done.” 1
What Founders Say
Co-founder and COO Anshika Srivastava said at the announcement: “Machines have learned to see what matter looks like and to read what we say about it. They have not learned to taste, smell, or feel matter — to perceive how a drug dissolves, how a flavour holds, how a material wears. That is the layer we are building.” 1
Sources
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“Exclusive: Apoha, startup pioneering AI based on liquid ‘wave form’ data, gets $36 million Series A,” Fortune, June 3, 2026, accessed June 2026. https://fortune.com/2026/06/03/apoha-36-million-series-a-funding-round-exit-stealth-wave-form-ai-liquid-intelligence/↩↩↩↩↩↩↩
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“Apoha emerges from stealth with $36M to teach machines how matter behaves,” The Next Web, June 3, 2026, accessed June 2026. https://thenextweb.com/news/apoha-stealth-36m-liquid-state-intelligence↩↩↩↩
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“The Oxford physicist and his Goldman Sachs co-founder wife raised $36M to build the data layer AI still can’t do,” Tech Funding News, June 3, 2026, accessed June 2026. https://techfundingnews.com/the-oxford-physicist-and-his-goldman-sachs-co-founder-wife-raised-36m-to-build-the-data-layer-ai-still-cant-do/↩