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Jun 25, 2026
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  1. FUNDINGStealthy AI-R&D Lab Mirendil Raises a $200M Seed From a16z and Kleiner Perkins→
  2. FUNDINGMirendil Raises a $200M Seed for Foundational AI in R&D, Backed by a16z, Kleiner and Nvidia→

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FUNDING$200M

Stealthy AI-R&D Lab Mirendil Raises a $200M Seed From a16z and Kleiner Perkins

Mirendil, a new and largely stealth frontier AI lab focused on building systems for AI research and development itself, raised a $200 million seed round co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins, with Nvidia among its backers. A nine-figure seed for a pre-product lab is one of the year's clearest signals that capital is racing to fund the next generation of foundation-model challengers.

Jun 26, 2026
FUNDING$200M

Mirendil Raises a $200M Seed for Foundational AI in R&D, Backed by a16z, Kleiner and Nvidia

Mirendil, a stealthy startup building foundational AI systems for scientific and industrial research and development, launched with a staggering $200 million seed round co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins, with Nvidia among its backers. The size of a seed once reserved for Series B underscores how aggressively top investors are pre-funding teams chasing AI that can accelerate discovery in chemistry, materials and the physical sciences.

Jun 25, 2026