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Noetik
Trains self-supervised 'virtual cell' models (OCTO) on its own spatial profiling of human tumours to find cancer targets and match drugs to patients.
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- 2026-06-15Noetik's TARIO-2 picked out likelier responders to Agenus's BOT+BAL immunotherapy from routine biopsy slides, looking back at 49 colorectal cancer patients in a trialLevel 3 · Checked against existing evidence
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- JJacob RinaldiCo-founder and chief scientific officer Radical Numerics: Head of Scientific Strategy
Ron AlfaFounder Noetik's TARIO-2 picked out likelier responders to Agenus's BOT+BAL immunotherapy from routine biopsy slides, looking back at 49 colorectal cancer patients in a trial
Lacey PadrónChief Technology Officer Noetik's TARIO-2 picked out likelier responders to Agenus's BOT+BAL immunotherapy from routine biopsy slides, looking back at 49 colorectal cancer patients in a trial
Ryan DaltonDirector, Translational Data Science Noetik's TARIO-2 picked out likelier responders to Agenus's BOT+BAL immunotherapy from routine biopsy slides, looking back at 49 colorectal cancer patients in a trial
Shafique ViraniChief Business Officer GSK licenses Noetik's virtual-cell cancer models for five years: $50M upfront and in near-term milestones, then annual fees
Named backers
Amy SchulmanManaging Partner · Polaris Partners · led the round Series A · $40M
Austin Nalen SproleDirector · Wittington Ventures Series A · $40M · the firm's round
Eli ScottSenior Associate · Wittington Ventures Series A · $40M · the firm's round
James HardimanGeneral Partner · DCVC Series A · $40M
Jean-Francois GagneAngel investor Series A · $40M
Megh GuptaManaging Partner · Wittington Ventures Series A · $40M · the firm's round
Tarek El NaggarAssociate · Wittington Ventures Series A · $40M · the firm's round- CChau KhuongAngel investor Seed · $14M
Funding rounds tracked
- 2024-08-29Series A · $40MconfirmedLed by Polaris Partners · With Khosla Ventures, Wittington Ventures, Breakout Ventures, DCVC, Zetta Venture Partners, Catalio Capital Management, 11.2 Capital, Epic Ventures, Intermountain Ventures, North South Ventures, ApSTAT Technologies, Linearis Labs and Ventures Fund, Jean-Francois GagneStated use: expand the spatial cancer atlas and train OCTO models
- 2023-09-07Seed · $14MconfirmedLed by DCVC · With Zetta Venture Partners, 11.2 Capital, Catalio Capital Management, Epic Ventures, Intermountain Ventures, Chris Gibson (Recursion CEO), North South Ventures, Chau Khuong, CJNV BioVentures, Viswa Colluru, Hummingbird Nomads Fund, Michael SecoraStated use: generate human tumour data and build transformer models
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- 2026-10-29ALLOXSeed · US$10.5M (€9.4M)Measures the effects of thousands of protein mutations at once to map allosteric and other regulatory sites, and builds AI models on that data to find drug-binding spots on hard targets such as protein-protein interactions and transcription factors, for its own small molecules.
- 2026-10-27Atlas BioSeed · $10MRuns in silico clinical trials, starting in immunology: a foundation model trained on about 2 million RNA readouts from human tissue predicts each virtual patient's response to several treatments and diseases, to help drug developers choose what to take into Phase II.
- 2026-10-23Pathos AISeries E · $237MLicenses clinical-stage drugs from other companies and develops them itself, using an agent platform (Foundry, earlier PathOS) trained on patient records to choose assets, pick the patients most likely to respond and adjust trials as they run. Its pipeline is in cancer: prostate cancer, multiple myeloma, lung and breast cancer and TROP2/HER3-expressing solid tumours; in October 2026 it began work in Alzheimer's disease with Bristol Myers Squibb and Tempus.
- 2026-10-23Zhichong PharmaSeries A1 · tens of millions of yuanDevelops new drugs for pets with generative AI, using its own small-molecule and large-molecule design engines (ChemoFetch and OmniFetch), and argues that testing in the target animal closes the loop from design to evidence faster than human drug development can; its programmes are in anti-infectives, chronic disease and ageing.
- 2026-10-14Gaowei YiyaoPre-A · undisclosed; PEdaily says the company has raised several hundred million yuan so far this yearMines protein-interaction and other high-dimensional biology data with its own models to find drug targets others treat as undruggable, then runs its own small-molecule and antibody programmes. Its GROOVY platform found the target behind GW-01, a Notch-pathway inhibitor now in Phase I; ACUMEN maps pairs of neighbouring cell-surface proteins for bispecifics and NEXUS looks for tumour neoantigens.
- 2026-10-14Iambic TherapeuticsIPO · $150MDesigns small-molecule cancer drugs with AI structure-prediction models (NeuralPLexer) linked to an automated chemistry and biology lab.
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