AI for science & materials · Cambridge, UK · founded 2024
CuspAI: who founded it, who funds it
CuspAI is a Cambridge AI-for-science lab founded in 2024 by Max Welling and Chad Edwards, who came from Microsoft and DeepMind. What it is building: materials discovery with simulated chemistry as the RL training signal: carbon capture, semiconductors, batteries. No funding round has been disclosed. It has not released anything outsiders can use yet.
- Founders
- Max Welling (ex-Microsoft), Chad Edwards (ex-Google DeepMind)
- Founders from
- ex-Microsoft, ex-Google DeepMind
- Location
- Cambridge, UK (Europe)
- Valuation
- $2.6B estimate, per source
- Raised
- · disclosed
- Investors
- NEA
- What ships
- Research only
Sources
- neolabs.fyi neolabs.fyi
- NEA nea.com
News
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Sep 9, 2026
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Aug 3, 2026
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Jul 29, 2026
- Jul 20, 2026
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Jul 20, 2026
+3 more coverage
- Intelligent CIO CuspAI launches global AI Materials Foundry with NVIDIA, Meta and 45 founding partners
- pv magazine USA CuspAI launches global materials discovery network alongside solar industry partners
- Investing News Network CuspAI Hits US$2.6 Billion Valuation with New AI Materials Foundry
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Jun 17, 2026
Investors who back other labs here
- NEA also: World Labs, Sakana AI
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