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Basecamp Research draws $60M to build a ‘GPT for biology’
While companies like OpenAI and Anthropic continue to popularize the idea of people using ordinary language to ask artificial intelligence agents to
While companies like OpenAI and Anthropic continue to popularize the idea of people using ordinary language to ask artificial intelligence agents to answer their questions, write their proposals, and draw pictures, a London startup called Basecamp Research has raised $60 million to tackle a new frontier: an AI that not only answer any question related to biology and the biodiversity of the natural world, but produce new insights that humans could not do on their own. Or, as backer Andy Conrad of S32, previously CEO of Verily Life Sciences at Google, puts it: Basecamp Research’s platform can “address questions that the biopharma industry hasn’t even known to ask.” For some context, Basecamp Research has raised $85 million to date, with previous investors including Hummingbird, True Ventures, strategic backer Valo and others.
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