Artificial Intelligence
Basecamp Research raises $140m in Series C
Basecamp Research raised $140m in a Series C led by S32, with Anthropic and other investors joining, and said it would use the money to train new AI models and advance therapeutics.
- Basecamp Research raised $140m in a Series C funding round.
- S32 led the round, and Anthropic joined through Anthology Fund.
- Basecamp said its total funding reached $225m.
- The company said it would use the money to train new AI models and advance AI-designed therapeutics.
Basecamp Research, a London-based startup founded in 2019, raised $140m in a Series C round. The company said its total funding then stood at $225m.
S32 led the round. Other named backers included NVentures, Anthropic through Anthology Fund, Catalio, the NATO Innovation Fund, Rockefeller, European Tech Collective and the UK government’s Sovereign AI Fund, while Firebrand, River Capital, King Philanthropies and Redalpine were listed as returning investors.
Basecamp said the money would support new model training and work on therapeutics designed with AI. It said its Eden models were being used for in vivo cell therapy and that its dataset came from partnerships in more than 30 countries.
Founders Glen Gowers and Oliver Vince said the company aimed to reprogramme the body so it could repair itself. Joséphine Kant said the founders had taken a portable lab to Iceland to sequence DNA off grid and praised the company’s UK base.
Named in this story
People
- Glen Gowers
- co-founded Basecamp Research
- Oliver Vince
- co-founded Basecamp Research
- Joséphine Kant
- commented for the UK government fund
- Bill Maris
- was identified as the founder of S32
Companies
- Basecamp Research
- raised a $140m Series C
- S32
- led the investment round
- Nvidia
- was named as an investor through its venture arm
- Anthropic
- joined the round as a new investor
- Menlo Ventures
- partnered with Anthropic in Anthology Fund
- Catalio
- joined the round as a new investor
- River Capital
- returned as an investor
- Redalpine
- returned as an investor
Organisations
- NVentures
- joined the round as Nvidia’s venture arm
- Anthology Fund
- was the vehicle through which Anthropic joined
- NATO Innovation Fund
- joined the round as a new investor
- Rockefeller
- joined the round as a new investor
- European Tech Collective
- joined the round as a new investor
- Firebrand
- returned as an investor
- King Philanthropies
- returned as an investor
Governments and agencies
- UK government’s Sovereign AI Fund
- joined the round as a new investor
Products and systems
- Eden models
- were the company’s biological foundation models
How the source tells it
The piece was mostly straight funding news, but it used promotional language around Basecamp’s science and relayed investor praise that added hype and triumphal framing.
- hype The article repeated the company’s own claims about changing medicine and expanding what its models could do.
- novelty It foregrounded the Arctic DNA-sequencing origin story and the idea that the founders had done something first.
- triumph Investor quotation and origin details were used to cast the founders as bold, exceptional builders.