Safety & interpretability · San Francisco, US · founded 2024
Goodfire: who founded it, who funds it
Goodfire is a San Francisco AI safety lab founded in 2024 by Eric Ho, Tom McGrath and Dan Balsam, who came from DeepMind. What it is building: mechanistic interpretability as a product (Ember API), with applications in biology and healthcare. No funding round has been disclosed. It sells access through an API.
- Founders
- Eric Ho, Tom McGrath (ex-Google DeepMind), Dan Balsam
- Founders from
- ex-Google DeepMind
- Location
- San Francisco, US (North America)
- Valuation
- $1.25B estimate, per source
- Raised
- · disclosed
- Investors
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- What ships
- API
Sources
- neolabs.fyi neolabs.fyi
News
- May 19, 2026
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Feb 5, 2026
+4 more coverage
- Pulse 2.0 Goodfire: $150 Million Series B At $1.25 Billion Valuation Raised For Interpretability AI…
- FinSMEs Goodfire Raises $150M in Series B Funding
- Tech Funding News Ex-OpenAI DeepMinders bag $150M for tools that debug AI hallucination
- TheSequence | Jesus Rodriguez The Sequence Radar #803: Last Week in AI: Anthropic and OpenAI’s Battle for the Long Hori…
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Apr 17, 2025
+1 more coverage
- PR Newswire Goodfire Raises $50M Series A to Advance AI Interpretability Research
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Aug 15, 2024