The discovery of new materials is traditionally based on long cycles, often from ten to twenty years old, which slow down innovation in fields as critical as energy, electronics or the environment. It is to this problem that Cuspai is attacking, a young company born in Cambridge in 2024, which develops a platform to reduce these deadlines to a few months by combining molecular modeling and physical simulations.
This approach already appeals to several sectors faced with major technological locks. CUSPAI has established a collaboration with Hyundai on applications related to sustainable energy, with Kemira on the elimination of PFAS, and with META around the capture of carbon via the ODAC25 database, one of the largest in the world in this area.
The startup has a network of leading scientific and industrial supports. Geoffrey Hinton and Yann Lecun, major figures of artificial intelligence, are among his advisers, alongside Martin Van den Brink, former president and CTO of ASML, and Lord John Browne, ex-CEO of BP.
Founded in 2024 by Chad Edwards, former quantinum leader, and Max Welling, Pioneer of the IA and ex-Microsoft Research, Cuspai raised more than 85 million euros in Series A. The Tour was co-directed by New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and Temasek, with the participation of Nvidia), Samsung Ventures, Hyundai Motor Group, as well as Basis Set Ventures, FJ Labs, Giant Ventures, Localglobe, Northzone, Prosus Ventures, Tifish Ventures and Touring Capital.
Several Business Angels have also invested, including Durk Kingma (Openai co -founder), Zoubin Ghahramani (VP Research at Google Deepmind), Arash Ferdowsi (Dropbox founder), Thomas Wolf (Founder of Hugging Face) and Victor Riparbelli (CEO of Synthesia).
This lifting follows priming funding of 25.5 million euros announced in 2024, bringing the total of funds raised to around 110.5 million euros.
