BenevolentAI

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BenevolentAI is a clinical-stage company that utilizes an AI platform to enhance drug discovery and development. It focuses on generating novel drug candidates with a higher likelihood of success through advanced data analysis and scientific collaboration.

Blurb

BenevolentAI is a leading, clinical-stage AI-enabled drug discovery company.

HQ Location

London (United Kingdom)

Founded

2013

Employees

201 - 500

Total funding raised

$1.90B

Last Funding Event

IPO, $1.61B, April 25, 2022

Smart insights

  • Catherine Msc (Chief People Officer) worked at Lilium as Head of People Business Partnering for 1.5 years (2021 - 2022)
  • Val Miftakhov (Founder & CEO) worked at Google in various roles, including Head of R&D, Google for Work Incubation, for a total of 4 years (2012 - 2016)
  • 6m headcount growth: 25%
  • 1Y headcount growth: 94%
  • Headcount-to-last-round ratio: 5.3 employees/$M
Subspaces
  • Drug Discovery Optimization

Benevolent AI is a clinical-stage AI-enabled drug discovery company. It delivers novel drug candidates with a higher probability of clinical success than those developed using traditional methods. The Benevolent Platform powers a growing in-house pipeline of over 20 drug programmes, spanning from target discovery to clinical studies, and it maintains commercial collaborations with pharmaceutical companies.