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Anthrogen

HQ San FranciscoFounded 2024

Anthrogen uses AI-designed enzymes make chemicals cheaper and faster than traditional processes using abundant resources as the feedstock. Think Solugen but for more complex metabolic pathways and carbon dioxide/water instead of sugar as a base. Co-founders met as students at Columbia where CEO, Ankit was a Science Research Fellow and Named Scholar (top 10 in class of ~2000). Connor Lee, CTO, also a Named Scholar at Columbia, was the youngest ever president of Columbia Robotics, placing third in the world's largest robotics competition. So far, they have trained their own multi-billion parameter foundation protein language models for enzyme development and created the world's fastest photosynthetic organism. They raised $4M from Box Group, Regen Ventures, Paul Graham, Y Combinator, Wayfinder, and others.

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Total raised
$4.0M
1 round
Last round
$4.0M
Seed · Nov 12, 2024

Funding1 round · $4.0M

Equity raised
$4.0M
Latest
$4.0MSeed · Nov 12, 2024

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    DatabaseAnthrogen - Crunchbase company profile

    Crunchbase · Supports Organization · x url

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    NewsColumbia students' biotech AI startup closes $4M seed round

    The American Bazaar · Nov 14, 2024 · Supports Funding round · amount

    “The financing was co-led by Regen Ventures and BoxGroup”
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    NewsAnthrogen Raises $4M to Tackle Carbon Emissions with CO2-Consuming Microbes and AI

    SynBioBeta · Nov 14, 2024 · Supports Funding round

    “has raised $4 million in seed funding”
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    NewsExclusive: Y Combinator startup raises $4M for low carbon chemicals

    Axios Pro · Nov 12, 2024 · Supports Funding round

    “AI low carbon chemicals startup Anthrogen has raised a $4 million seed round”

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    Black Flag · Supports Organization, Role

    “Anthrogen uses AI-designed enzymes make chemicals cheaper and faster than traditional processes using abundant resources as the feedstock. Think Solugen but”

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    CompanyAnthrogen public job board

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