London, June 2026 – Frontier AI startup Inherent has secured a massive $50 million seed round to develop Faraday, an ambitious platform designed to reinvent the scientific method for the machine learning era. The round was jointly led by Index Ventures and Radical Ventures, with participation from NVIDIA’s Nventurers, Ex/Ante, Metaplanet, Macroscopic Ventures, and Mythos Ventures.
Unlike traditional research software, Inherent’s mission is to pioneer AI-native science. Faraday is engineered not just to accelerate existing workflows but to generate entirely new scientific questions. Its architecture connects human experts with semi-autonomous agents capable of traversing hypothesis spaces that would take centuries for humans to explore.
Index Ventures partner Danny Rimer highlighted the vision: “Most AI systems today are designed to answer questions. What they cannot do yet is exhibit the open-ended curiosity that produced historic breakthroughs like penicillin or the GPU. That is the gap Inherent is building.”
The founding team blends elite technical expertise with policy insight. Co-founders Tantum Collins, Edward Hughes, and Louis Kirsch, all DeepMind alumni, are joined by infrastructure engineer Kaloyan Aleksiev from Reka AI and Microsoft. Collins also brings rare geopolitical experience, having served as an AI policy advisor at the Biden White House. Strategic advisor Matt Clifford, co-founder of Entrepreneur First and former UK AI tsar, further strengthens the lab’s positioning.
Inherent has launched as a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC), embedding safety, transparency, and ethical advancement into its governance. This structure is seen by investors as a competitive advantage, ensuring trust as the company deploys highly autonomous agents into sensitive fields like biochemistry, materials science, and advanced physics.
With its $50 million runway, Inherent aims to move Faraday from theoretical framework to peer-reviewed breakthroughs, positioning itself as a transformative force in the future of scientific discovery.
