Radical Numerics

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Founded 2025
Latest Stage Seed
Total Raised $50M
Sector
ai biotech drug-discovery computational-biology

Investors

Patrick Collison pre-seed (2025)
Emergence Capital seed (2026)
Obvious Ventures seed (2026)
stripe Pre-Seed (2025)

Founders

Eric Nguyen CEO & Co-Founder
Michael Poli Chief AI Scientist & Co-Founder
Stefano Massaroli President & Co-Founder
Armin Thomas CTO & Co-Founder

About

Radical Numerics is an AI research lab building general biological intelligence — multimodal AI models that read, write, and reason in the language of biology, including DNA, RNA, proteins, and other molecules 12. The company is the team behind Evo and Evo 2, AI models that generate DNA sequences trained on genomes from over 100,000 species 2.

The company was founded by Eric Nguyen (CEO, PhD Stanford Bioengineering & AI), Michael Poli (Chief AI Scientist, PhD Stanford, Liquid AI founding team), Stefano Massaroli (President, postdoc with Yoshua Bengio, Liquid AI founding team), and Armin Thomas (CTO, postdoc at Stanford with Chris Ré, Liquid AI) 1.

Scientific advisors include Eric Horvitz (Chief Scientific Officer, Microsoft), Chris Ré (Stanford), George Church (Harvard), and Andrew Weber (former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Defense Programs) 1.

The company targets the AI drug discovery market and has two early commercial partnerships in cancer detection and pathogen characterization 2.

Funding History

Date Round Amount Lead Co-investors
2025 Pre-Seed undisclosed — Patrick Collison 12
2026-06-15 Seed $50M Emergence Capital Obvious Ventures, Triatomic Capital, Factory, First Spark Ventures 13

What Investors Say

No independently sourced investor quotes from the launch announcement found at the time of profile creation.

What Founders Say

“I basically went back to the PhD to look for purpose. I wanted to find something that I thought I could contribute to, that if I didn’t work on it, nobody else would.” — Eric Nguyen, CEO, Radical Numerics, Fortune, June 15, 2026 2

Sources

  1. “AI Lab Radical Numerics Launches with $50M Seed Round To Build General Biological Intelligence,” Business Wire / Yahoo Finance, June 15, 2026, accessed June 2026. https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/healthcare/articles/ai-lab-radical-numerics-launches-130000718.html↩↩↩↩↩

  2. “Exclusive: The researchers who built AI-generated DNA just raised $50 million to reinvent biology,” Fortune, June 15, 2026, accessed June 2026. https://fortune.com/2026/06/15/exclusive-ai-dna-radical-numerics-eric-nguyen-biology-biodefense-drug-discovery/↩↩↩↩↩

  3. “Radical Numerics Raises $50M in Seed Funding,” FinSMEs, June 2026, accessed June 2026. https://www.finsmes.com/2026/06/radical-numerics-raises-50m-in-seed-funding.html↩