Anthrogen develops protein foundation models to develop new-to-nature peptides with applications from human health to frontier manufacturing efforts. They are comprised of scientists from Columbia, Duke, Berkeley, and more.

They have recently trained a large, multimodal foundation model that is SOTA across a variety of benchmarks and can even be prompted with natural language. They continue to run scaling experiments and are working towards a public launch of their first-generation models in the near future.

The team is seed-stage and has raised $4M from investors like Paul Graham, Box Group, Y Combinator, Wayfinder, and others. www.anthrogen.com