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CuspAI

Energy · Cambridge, United Kingdom · Founded 2024

Developing a platform to design new materials for sustainability and clean energy using use genAI, deep learning, and molecular simulation MoreLess

CuspAI is a company that has developed a platform for designing next-generation materials to address global sustainability and clean energy challenges. The company's platform functions like a search engine, enabling users to request new materials with specific properties on demand. The AI then generates the molecular structures of these materials.

CuspAI was co-founded by Max Welling, a machine learning specialist, and Chad Edwards, a chemist. The company recently announced a $30 million seed funding round to advance its technology. The initial focus of the company is on developing materials for carbon capture and storage, aiming to provide solutions for industries to reduce their carbon footprint. The business model is likely B2B, offering its material design platform to companies in sectors such as energy and manufacturing.

Keywords: materials design, generative AI, carbon capture, sustainability, clean energy, deep learning, machine learning, materials science, B2B, seed funding

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CuspAI's talent

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Team profiled 14 named & role-tagged
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Key operators 3 quality Hidden — book a demo/100
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Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.

Investors

22 investors on CuspAI's cap table

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Seed 12 investors entered at this stage
Hoxton Ventures
Lightspeed Venture Partners
Northzone
FJ Labs
Basis Set Ventures
Giant Ventures
Dorothy Chou
Tiferes Ventures
Touring Capital
LocalGlobe
Mehdi Ghissassi
Zero Prime Ventures
Series A 7 investors entered at this stage
NEA
Temasek
Samsung Electronics
Hyundai Motor Company
Hyundai Motor Group
Prosus Ventures
NVentures
Series B+ 3 investors entered at this stage

Global footprint

Where CuspAI has talent and traffic

Workforce by country
8 countries with
team presence
🇬🇧 United Kingdom58.5%
🇳🇱 Netherlands17%
🇩🇪 Germany9.4%
🇺🇸 United States7.5%
🇯🇵 Japan1.9%
Top 5 of 8 shown

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about CuspAI

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about CuspAI on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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