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Founded by DeepMind alumnus, Latent Labs launches with $50M to make biology programmable
A new startup from one of the key scientists at Google DeepMind exits stealth today with $50 million in funding.
Latent Labs is building AI foundation models to “make biology programmable,” and it plans to partner with biotech and pharmaceutical companies to generate and optimize proteins. Today, Latent’s headcount is split across two sites — one in London, where the frontier model magic happens, and another in San Francisco, with its own wet lab and computational protein design team. Prior to joining TechCrunch in June 2022, Paul had gained more than a decade’s experience covering consumer and enterprise technologies for The Next Web (now owned by the Financial Times) and VentureBeat.
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