

Inherent
A public benefit corporation building Faraday, a system in which researchers work with self-improving AI agents on open scientific problems.
Money and evidence
Latest round, Seed, 2026-05-29: the record then held no research entry for the company. The first research entry is dated 2026-08-13; the highest level so far is 2 (Computed).
Rounds and research, on one timeline
- 2026-08-13Research
Level 2 · Computed
Inherent trains a 27B agent that directs frontier coding agents
It separates scientific judgment from execution: the small model decides what to try, the large one writes the code.
- 2026-05-29SeedRound
$50M
Not stated
Index's own post says it leads the $50m seed 'alongside Radical Ventures'; Tech.eu and TNW call it co-led. The other participants are from TNW's report. TNW says the company came out of stealth on Wednesday 27 May; the date here is Tech.eu's report of 29 May.
Co-lead · Index Ventures ✓Co-lead · Radical Ventures ✓NVentures (NVIDIA)Ex/AnteMetaplanetMacroscopic VenturesMythos Ventures
On the deal: Danny Rimer (Partner; spoke for the firm, Index Ventures)
The investor's own page says · Index Ventures: Leads the $50m seed alongside Radical Ventures
Announced by the company · indexventures.com ↗On the timeline →
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.
- Index VenturesLeads the $50m seed alongside Radical Venturesindexventures.com ↗
- Radical Venturesradical.vc ↗
Its investors also backed
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- NVentures (NVIDIA)EvolutionaryScale, Generate:Biomedicines, Iambic Therapeutics, Inceptive, Genesis Molecular AI (formerly Genesis Therapeutics), Terray Therapeutics, Lila Sciences, Periodic Labs, Radical AI, Achira, CuspAI, Orbital Industries, Basecamp Research, Relation Therapeutics, Mirendil, Superluminal Medicines, Ricursive Intelligence, AMI Labs, Recursive Superintelligence, Generalist AI, Ineffable Intelligence
- Radical VenturesGenesis Molecular AI (formerly Genesis Therapeutics), Periodic Labs, Discovery Loop, Orbital Industries, Latent Labs, Ricursive Intelligence, Generalist AI
- Index VenturesChai Discovery, Albert, Cradle, Ineffable Intelligence