

Radical AI
Runs an AI scientist and a self-driving lab that make and test new alloys, aiming at extreme-heat aerospace and defence materials.
Money and evidence
Latest round, Seed, 2025-07-18: the record then held no research entry for the company. The first research entry is dated 2026-08-07; the highest level so far is 4 (Tested in the physical world).
Rounds and research, on one timeline
- 2026-09-23Research
Level 3 · Checked against existing evidence
Radical AI says all six materials its electronic-property model proposed met the target in its self-driving lab, while a second model did not
A full predict-make-measure loop in under two months. The post gives no property values, targets or the outside party's name.
- 2026-08-07Research
Level 4 · Tested in the physical world
Purdue's torch test: Radical AI's alloy RAI-939 gained 0.25% mass where the Apollo-era alloy C103 lost 32%
An outside lab tested a named alloy. One minute of torch on one sample is not a flight spec, and no Purdue report was read.
- 2025-07-18SeedRound
$55M
For: build an integrated system from materials design to manufacture
Automated labManufacturing and scale-up
The company post gives the $55M seed but no investors; the lead and participants are from Pulse 2.0, which calls it 'Series Seed+' (pulse2.com/radical-ai-55-million-series-seed-raised-for-advancing-materials-research/). Eni's investor is its venture arm, Eni Next; Tribeca Venture Partners is cross-checked against investor-database records; not named in the sources read.
Lead · RTX VenturesNVentures (NVIDIA) ✓NoaInfinite CapitalEni NextAlleyCorp ✓Tribeca Venture Partners
- 2024-07Pre-seedRound
undisclosed; AlleyCorp's 'largest pre-seed check ever'
For: build the team and the self-driving lab
HiringAutomated lab
Investor's own newsletter, 2024-07-10; it does not call AlleyCorp the lead, only the investor.
On the deal: Kevin Ryan (Wrote the firm's investment note, AlleyCorp)
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.
- AlleyCorpalleycorp.com ↗
- NVentures (NVIDIA)nvidia.com ↗
Other backers, round not stated
Named as backers in investor databases, reports or the investors' own posts; no source read places them in a round on the record.
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