


Enveda
Uses mass spectrometry and machine learning (PRISM) to identify drug candidates among natural compounds from plants and other organisms, then develops them itself.
Money and evidence
Latest round, Series E, 2026-09-23: the record then held 2 research entries, highest level 5. The first research entry is dated 2026-07-24; the highest level so far is 5 (Used in practice).
Rounds and research, on one timeline
- 2026-10-27Research
Level 3 · Checked against existing evidence
Across its runs, Enveda's document reviewer raised all 11 issues human reviewers found in 1,061 pages of batch records, and 7 they had not
Batch-record review is required before a batch of a drug is released, and Anthropic's post says Enveda's manufacturing chemists had been spending up to 75% of their time on paperwork. This is the regulated-paperwork end of drug development, which rarely gets measured at all, and the yardstick here is what human reviewers caught on real records rather than a score on a benchmark.
- 2026-09-23Series ERound
$311M
For: move ENV-294 and ENV-308 into later-stage trials
Toward the clinic
Total raised since inception more than $845M.
Lead · Catalio Capital Management ✓Durable Capital PartnersICONIQLightspeedSurveyor Capital (Citadel)T. Rowe PriceBaillie GiffordDigitalis VenturesAlderline GroupPremji Invest ✓FPV ✓True Ventures ✓Kinnevik ✓DimensionLifeforce CapitalLux Capital ✓
On the deal: Alex Gorsky (General Partner at ICONIQ, Co-founder of Alderline Group, ICONIQ); George Petrocheilos (Co-founder and Managing Partner, Catalio Capital Management, joins the board)
By this date the record held 2 research entries, highest level 5
- 2026-08-18Research
Level 5 · Used in practice
Enveda reports ENV-308, a pill built to mimic an exercise hormone, was well tolerated in 88 healthy volunteers
Another drug Enveda found with its AI model reaches people, and the trial shows only that it is safe enough to keep testing. Leptin is an exploratory marker with no numbers given, the weight claims come from animals, and the readout is a company release, not a paper.
- 2026-07-24Research
Level 5 · Used in practice
Enveda reports an oral eczema pill cut skin scores 85% by day 42 in nine patients
Nine patients, no placebo, company-reported: not proof it works. The release does not say how AI shaped this molecule.
- 2025-09-04Series DRound
$150M
For: advance ENV-294 and the pipeline
Toward the clinic
Company says the round took it to unicorn status, without a valuation figure; total funding $517M.
Lead · Premji Invest ✓Baillie GiffordKinnevik ✓LingottoFPV ✓DimensionLux Capital ✓Peakline PartnersSocium VenturesLevel VenturesHenry KravisIA Ventures
On the deal: Akshay Rai (Principal, Healthtech and Biotech, Premji Invest); Henry Kravis (Individual investor)
- 2025-02Series C extensionRound
Sanofi investment, amount not stated; brings Series C to $150M
For: expand clinical pipeline and AI discovery
Toward the clinicModels and platform
- 2024-11-21Series CRound
$130M
For: reach clinical readouts in 2025-26 across programs
Toward the clinic
Total funding $360M after this round.
Co-lead · Kinnevik ✓Co-lead · FPV ✓Baillie GiffordPremji Invest ✓LingottoLux Capital ✓DimensionHenry R. KravisTrue Ventures ✓Cresset PartnersThe Nature Conservancy
On the deal: Christian Scherrer (Senior Investment Director and Head of Health and Bio, Kinnevik); Henry Kravis (Individual investor, Henry R. Kravis); James Anderson (CIO & Managing Partner, Lingotto Innovation Strategy, Lingotto); Pegah Ebrahimi (Managing Partner, FPV)
- 2024-06Series B extensionRound
$55M
For: start clinical trials in late 2024 and early 2025
Toward the clinic
Added to the $119M Series B; BizWest puts total raised at about $230M.
- 2023-04Series B1Round
$51M
For: advance multiple programs toward the clinic
Toward the clinic
Equity added to the Dec 2022 round, taking it to $119M; the company release was not read.
On the deal: Henry Kravis (Individual investor)
- 2022-12-21Series BRound
$68M
For: advance lead compounds to clinical candidates
Toward the clinic
$68M is equity and debt combined; company total $124M after the round.
Lead · DimensionFPV ✓Jazz Venture Partners ✓True Ventures ✓Lux Capital ✓Two Sigma Ventures ✓Wireframe Ventures ✓Level VenturesAmino CollectiveAllen & CoPossible VenturesHummingbird Ventures ✓
On the deal: Pegah Ebrahimi (Co-founder and Managing Partner, FPV); Zavain Dar (Co-founder and Managing Partner, Dimension)
- 2021-06-22Series ARound
$51M
For: advance its platform to discover and develop drug candidates from its chemical map of the natural world
Models and platform
Oversubscribed, per the company release.
Lead · Lux Capital ✓Two Sigma Ventures ✓Hummingbird Ventures ✓Catalio Capital Management ✓Lifeforce CapitalMatthew De Silva (Notable Labs)True Ventures ✓Wireframe Ventures ✓Village GlobalChris Gibson (Recursion)
On the deal: Chris Gibson (Existing investor); Matthew De Silva (Angel investor); Zavain Dar (Partner, Lux Capital)
The investor's own page says · Lux Capital: 2021
- 2020-12-16SeedRound
$4.9M
For: grow its medicinal plant dataset, improve its technology and algorithms, and take its liver-fibrosis lead asset through preclinical development
Data generationModels and platformToward the clinic
Lead · True Ventures ✓Wireframe Ventures ✓Village GlobalChris Gibson (Recursion)
On the deal: Chris Gibson (Angel investor); Rohit Sharma (Partner, True Ventures)
Research entries are the timeline's graded entries that name this company. A level grades one claim, not the company, and a blank can mean the record has not caught up rather than that nothing was published.
On the investors' own sites
Investors that name this company on their own site, in a portfolio or their own announcement. A ✓ in a round marks the same investor.
- Air Street Capitalpre-Air Street (before the fund existed)no round stated, and in no round on recordairstreet.com ↗
- Catalio Capital Managementcataliocapital.com ↗
- FPVfpvventures.com ↗
- Hummingbird Ventures2019, Earlyhummingbird.vc ↗
- Jazz Venture Partnersjazzvp.com ↗
- KinnevikInvested year 2023kinnevik.com ↗
- Lux Capital2021luxcapital.com ↗
- Premji Investpremjiinvest.com ↗
- True Venturestrueventures.com ↗
- Two Sigma Venturesdeviation.com ↗
- Wireframe VenturesPre-seed, September 2019wireframevc.com ↗
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- Lux CapitalWarp Sciences, Transfyr, Xaira Therapeutics, EvolutionaryScale, Medra, CuspAI, LabGenius, Multiply Labs
- Catalio Capital ManagementIambic Therapeutics, BigHat Biosciences, Noetik, Lila Sciences, Medra, Basecamp Research, Superluminal Medicines
- DimensionOnyx Bio, Chai Discovery, Axiom Bio, Achira, Helixon (Earendil Labs), Lanyon AI
- LightspeedWarp Sciences, Xaira Therapeutics, Discovery Loop, CuspAI, Ricursive Intelligence, Ineffable Intelligence
- Chris GibsonNoetik, LabGenius, Cradle, Leash Bio
- Hummingbird VenturesNoetik, Basecamp Research, Bioptimus
- Premji InvestWarp Sciences, BigHat Biosciences
- Digitalis VenturesTerray Therapeutics, Matchpoint Therapeutics
- SanofiOwkin, Helixon (Earendil Labs)
- Two Sigma VenturesXaira Therapeutics, Terray Therapeutics
- T. Rowe PriceGenerate:Biomedicines, Genesis Molecular AI (formerly Genesis Therapeutics)
- True VenturesBasecamp Research
- Baillie GiffordChai Discovery
- Jazz Venture PartnersGenesis Molecular AI (formerly Genesis Therapeutics)
- LingottoMultiply Labs
- Possible VenturesChemify
- Socium VenturesAlbert