Computer use & agents · San Francisco, US · founded 2024
Standard Intelligence: who founded it, who funds it
Standard Intelligence is a San Francisco computer-use AI lab founded in 2024 by Galen Mead and Devansh Pandey. What it is building: fDM-1, a fully general computer-action model trained on video that can browse, do CAD and drive a car at 30 FPS. It has raised $75M in disclosed rounds, most recently a Series A of $75M in April 2026, led by Sequoia and Spark Capital. It has not released anything outsiders can use yet.
- Founders
- Galen Mead, Devansh Pandey
- Founders from
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- Location
- San Francisco, US (North America)
- Valuation
- $500M estimate, per source
- Raised
- $75M disclosed
- Investors
- Sequoia lead, Spark Capital lead, Andrej Karpathy, Stanley Druckenmiller
- What ships
- Research only
Rounds
| Date | Round | Amount | Valuation | Lead | Source |
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| Apr 29, 2026 | Series A | $75M | · | Sequoia, Spark Capital | nextomoro.com |
Sources
- The Information theinformation.com
News
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Jun 1, 2026
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Apr 30, 2026
+1 more coverage
- Sequoia Capital Standard Intelligence: Training General Intelligence in Pixel Space
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Apr 30, 2026
+3 more coverage
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Investors who back other labs here
- Sequoia also: Safe Superintelligence, Reflection AI, Skild AI, Physical Intelligence
- Andrej Karpathy also: Inception Labs