Apoha, a deeptech company pioneering what it calls Liquid State Intelligence emerges from stealth today with $36 million in funding. The round is led by Singular, with participation from Tim Draper’s Draper Associates and continued backing from seed investors Redalpine, Seedcamp, Wilbe and Nucleus, alongside grant funding from Innovate UK, the UK’s national innovation agency.
For decades, scientists did not have enough evidence to answer the most fundamental questions of molecular science. They could determine what a molecule was from its sequence, and what it looked like from its structure — but not how it actually behaved under real-world conditions.
The only clues they had were limited and narrow measurements under specific lab conditions. Because this information is missing, companies make billion-dollar decisions everyday with a lot of uncertainty. Drugs enter clinical trials without fully understanding how they will work in patients. Food products are launched with limited understanding of how the target customer will perceive them. New materials are used in the real world without fully understanding how they will perform under everyday conditions.
As the frontier of artificial intelligence moves beyond language and code into systems that act on the physical world, another gap is emerging.
