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EvolutionaryScale
AI biology company founded by ex-Meta FAIR researchers, building frontier generative models for biology — its ESM3 model reasons over protein sequence, structure and function and generated esmGFP, a fluorescent protein 500M years of evolution away from nature.
Headquarters
New York City, USA
Year Founded
2023
Founders
Alexander Rives
Country
United States
Financial Information
Funding Stage
Seed
Recent Funding
$142M
Funding By
Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, Lux Capital, Amazon, NVIDIA
Core Technology
ESM3 multimodal protein language model
Product Type
AI Platform
Pipeline Stage (Very Important)
Commercialized (API + model licensing)
Regulatory Status
- IND Filed: N/A
- FDA/EMA Status: N/A
- Clinical Trial Registration: N/A
- Patents / IP Status: Building IP portfolio
Partnerships
Pharma Collaborations
AWS, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Arc Institute
Academic / Hospital Tie-ups
Meta AI FAIR heritage
CRO/CDMO Partnerships
None disclosed
Market & Differentiation
Generative protein AI at frontier scale (98B params); esmGFP breakthrough