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 123. 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 12. 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 government AI advisor) serves as an advisor 123.
Funding History
| Date | Round | Amount | Lead | Co-investors |
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| 2026-05-28 | Seed | $50M | Index Ventures, Radical Ventures | NVentures (NVIDIA), Ex/Ante, Metaplanet, Macroscopic Ventures, Mythos Ventures 123 |
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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/↩↩↩