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Name: Today, Apoha comes out of stealth with $36M in funding. For years the most important question in dr
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Description: Today, Apoha comes out of stealth with $36M in funding. For years the most important question in drug discovery and materials science has been answered with proxies — sequences, structures, single-po

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Today, Apoha comes out of stealth with $36M in funding. For years the most important question in drug discovery and materials science has been answered with proxies — sequences, structures, single-point assays, all of them trying to predict the one thing that actually matters: how a molecule will behave. We built a way to capture the behaviour of materials as a structured data class and learn from it with unprecedented speed and efficiency, inspired by the natural ability of liquid surfaces and interfaces to sense and process stimuli and information. We call it Liquid State Intelligence, and it opens up an entirely new data layer: the perception of materials and molecules by their behaviour. We built a technology that perceives and understands materials and molecules by their behaviour — and in doing so, it turns the entire problem of materials and molecular design on its head. Instead of starting from composition and hoping for the right behaviour, you start from the behaviour you want and work backwards to the composition that produces it. I left academia for one reason: ideas this important shouldn't stay locked in journals that no one acts on. They belong in the hands of the people solving real problems so they can solve them better, faster, and in ways that simply weren't possible before. To the giants whose shoulders this stands on, to Anshika Srivastava, and to the team who believed before there was any proof, thank you. It's already built, it's running, and as of today it's in the world's hands. The physical-AI era has been waiting for machines that can perceive the material world. That perception starts here. 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗔𝗽𝗼𝗵𝗮. Huge thanks to Raffi Kamber + Maud Larbey at Singular, Michael Sidler + Philip Kneis at redalpine, Felix Martinez + Reshma Sohoni + Carlos Eduardo Espinal MBE at Seedcamp, Ale Maiano + Devika Thapar at Wilbe, Leif Danielsen at Acequia Capital, Michelle Kwok at Draper Associates, Maximilian Schwarz + Aaron Suri + Dr. Isabella Fandrych at Nucleus Capital, Charlie Songhurst, Will George + Tyler Engh at R7, Thomas Bigagli 🪐 + Matthew Claxton at Plug and Play Tech Center, Innovate UK Business Connect, plus all our amazing angels for backing the mission. Exclusive with Fortune by Jeremy Kahn: https://lnkd.in/esRHfDnt Preprint with Boehringer Ingelheim: https://lnkd.in/ehdpsJU8 My essay on this milestone: https://lnkd.in/eChS98ze Learn more about Apoha: https://lnkd.in/eFgNf7Y6

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