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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