Startup profile for Inductive Bio: latest funding, latest known valuation, total disclosed funding, investors, status, sources, and why the company is interesting. Part of the Venture Capital Tracker startup directory.

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Inductive Bio funding, valuation and investors

Collaborative AI platform accelerating small-molecule optimization via virtual chemistry labs.

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Funding, valuation & investors

Answer-first snapshot

Latest funding

Series A

$25M · 2025

Latest known valuation

Not publicly disclosed

Total disclosed equity funding

$29M

Excludes debt, grants, acquisitions, secondaries, and IPO proceeds.

Current status

private

series a · New York, New York

Investors in latest funding

Lead: Obvious Ventures

Other: Andreessen Horowitz , Lux Capital , Bessemer Venture Partners

Sources: latest funding Last verified: 2026-07-25

Overview

Inductive Bio builds a collaborative AI platform that accelerates small-molecule drug optimization through virtual chemistry labs. The company won consecutive OpenADMET blind benchmarks and runs a pre-competitive data consortium with pharma partners. It raised a $4.3M seed co-led by a16z Bio + Health and Lux Capital (2023), followed by a $25M Series A led by Obvious Ventures (2025).

Why Inductive Bio is interesting

Won consecutive OpenADMET blind benchmarks; pre-competitive data consortium across pharma partners.

Product & use cases

Inductive Bio builds a collaborative AI platform accelerating small-molecule drug optimization through virtual chemistry labs and pre-competitive pharma data consortiums.

  • Virtual chemistry lab for molecule optimization
  • Pre-competitive ADMET benchmarking across pharma partners
  • Collaborative AI-assisted medicinal chemistry

Key facts

  • Seed (2023): $4.3M co-led by a16z Bio + Health (/fund/andreessen-horowitz) and Lux (/fund/lux-capital); Bessemer (/fund/bessemer-venture-partners) participated (PR Newswire)
  • Series A (2025): $25M led by Obvious Ventures; a16z and Lux re-upped (company blog)
  • Won consecutive OpenADMET blind benchmarks for ADMET prediction accuracy

Funding history (newest first)

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Competitive landscape

Edge: Won consecutive OpenADMET blind benchmarks — validates predictive accuracy vs. other AI drug discovery tools.

AI drug optimization is crowded; Inductive's OpenADMET benchmark wins provide external validation. Series A ($25M, 2025) funds platform expansion.

  • Schrödinger adjacent

    Physics-based drug discovery; Inductive AI-native optimization.

  • Exscientia direct

    AI drug design; Inductive focuses on optimization benchmarks.

  • Relay Therapeutics adjacent

    Computationally driven discovery; different platform approach.

Notable stories

  • Won consecutive OpenADMET blind benchmarks — external validation of predictive models.
  • Seed co-led by a16z Bio + Health and Lux Capital ($4.3M, 2023).

Industries

Biotech & Life Sciences AI & Machine Learning

FAQs about Inductive Bio

Practical answers founders, operators, and investors typically search for.

Collaborative AI platform accelerating small-molecule optimization via virtual chemistry labs.
a16z (/fund/andreessen-horowitz) and Lux (/fund/lux-capital) co-led seed ($4.3M, 2023). Obvious Ventures led Series A ($25M, 2025). Bessemer (/fund/bessemer-venture-partners) participated in both.
Blind benchmark for ADMET prediction — Inductive won consecutive competitions.
Schrödinger physics-based simulation incumbent; Inductive AI-native optimization with benchmark validation.
Series A — $25M in 2025.
Pharma partners sharing data for model training without competitive molecule exposure — per company materials.
New York, New York.
No — remains private.

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