Funding · on the rundown Monday, June 15, 2026
Radical Numerics raises $50M seed for AI-generated DNA
Covered by 2 outlets over 3 hours. All of them ran the same syndicated report. First reported by Fortune at 13:15 UTC on June 15, 2026.
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What happened?
- Radical Numerics raised a $50 million seed round led by Emergence Capital, joined by Obvious Ventures, Triatomic Capital, Factory, First Spark Ventures, with pre-seed backing from Patrick Collison.
- The founding team created Evo and Evo 2, the first AI models generating DNA sequences at scale, trained on genomes of over 100,000 species.
- Cofounders Eric Nguyen, Michael Poli, Stefano Massaroli, and Armin Thomas previously built core AI model technology at Liquid AI, an MIT spinout.
Eric Nguyen’s quest for purpose led to Radical Numerics, a startup that just raised $50 million in seed funding to commercialize AI-generated DNA.
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Who reported it, and when?
| Time | Report | Run by |
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| Jun 15 13:15 | Report by Fortune |
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Who was named?
- Factory
- Evo
- Triatomic Capital
- Obvious Ventures
- Evo 2
- Emergence Capital
- Liquid AI
- Radical Numerics
- First Spark Ventures
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