Inherent
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About
Inherent is a London-based AI research lab that emerged from stealth May 28, 2026 with a $50M seed; co-founders Tantum Collins, Edward Hughes, and Louis Kirsch are former DeepMind researchers and Kaloyan Aleksiev was previously at Reka AI and Microsoft, with Collins having also worked on AI policy at the White House under the Biden administration 12345. The company is building Faraday — a system that pairs humans with self-improving AI to figure out which scientific questions are worth asking, not just to answer them — targeting the gap that most existing AI cannot yet bridge in scientific discovery 123. The $50M seed was co-led by Index Ventures and Radical Ventures with participation from NVentures (NVIDIA), Ex/Ante, Metaplanet, Macroscopic Ventures, and Mythos Ventures; Matt Clifford (Entrepreneurs First co-founder, former UK government AI tsar) serves as an advisor 12345. Inherent is incorporated as a public benefit corporation, an unusual governance structure for a venture-backed AI lab 14.
Funding History
| Date | Round | Amount | Lead | Co-investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-28 | Seed | $50M | Index Ventures, Radical Ventures | NVentures (NVIDIA), Ex/Ante, Metaplanet, Macroscopic Ventures, Mythos Ventures 12345 |
What Investors Say
“Most AI is built to answer questions. What it can’t do (yet) is figure out which questions are worth asking — the open-ended curiosity that produced penicillin, the microwave, the GPU. That’s the gap Inherent is building into.”
— Danny Rimer, Partner, Index Ventures 4
“The best companies build an internal culture that prefigures the world they want to manifest.”
— Index Ventures, “Inherent: Designing for Discovery” 3
What Founders Say
“Teddy, Ed, Kally and Louis are some of the most impressive, thoughtful and ambitious founders I’ve met. Excited to see Inherent launch.”
— Matt Clifford, advisor and Entrepreneurs First co-founder 4
Sources
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The Next Web, “Ex-DeepMind researchers raised $50M to build AI that figures out which scientific questions are worth asking,” May 28, 2026. Accessed May 2026. https://thenextweb.com/news/inherent-ai-50-million-seed-deepmind-faraday-science↩↩↩↩↩
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Tech.eu, “London-based AI lab Inherent emerges from stealth with $50m raise,” May 29, 2026. Accessed May 2026. https://tech.eu/2026/05/29/london-based-ai-lab-inherent-emerges-from-stealth-with-50m-raise/↩↩↩↩
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Index Ventures, “Inherent: Designing for Discovery,” May 28, 2026. Accessed May 2026. https://www.indexventures.com/perspectives/inherent-designing-for-discovery/↩↩↩↩↩
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Sifted, “Ex-DeepMind researchers raise $50m for AI science startup Inherent,” May 29, 2026. Accessed June 2026. https://sifted.eu/articles/inherent-ai-funding-round-index-matt-clifford↩↩↩↩↩↩
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The SaaS News, “Inherent Laboratories Raises $50M Seed,” May 28, 2026. Accessed June 2026. https://www.thesaasnews.com/news/inherent-laboratories-raises-50m-seed/↩↩↩