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Matter Machine funding, valuation and investors
AI-assisted platform for discovering and optimizing advanced materials.
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Funding, valuation & investors
Answer-first snapshotLatest funding
Pre-Series A
£4M · October 11, 2026
Latest known valuation
Not publicly disclosed
Total disclosed equity funding
Not publicly disclosed
Excludes debt, grants, acquisitions, secondaries, and IPO proceeds.
Current status
private
series a · Liverpool, United Kingdom
Overview
Matter Machine is a University of Liverpool spinout commercializing materials-science research with AI systems intended to shorten discovery and optimization cycles.
Why Matter Machine is interesting
Materials discovery remains a slow experimental bottleneck for batteries, catalysts, electronics and manufacturing; the company is pairing university research with an experienced commercialization team.
Product & use cases
An AI-powered materials-discovery stack being developed at Liverpool's Materials Innovation Factory to help identify and optimize new material candidates.
- Battery and catalyst materials discovery.
- Optimization of materials for electronics and advanced manufacturing.
Key facts
- Closed a £4M pre-Series A led by IP Group in October 2026.
- Led by Gordon Sanghera, who previously took Oxford Nanopore from inception through its 2021 public listing.
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Competitive landscape
Edge: Access to University of Liverpool materials expertise and research infrastructure, combined with leadership experienced in taking a UK university spinout to public markets.
Competes with AI materials-discovery platforms and internal industrial R&D; defensibility will depend on proprietary datasets, experimental validation, partner access and time-to-discovery improvements.
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Citrine Informatics direct
Enterprise materials informatics and AI.
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Materials Nexus direct
AI-led discovery of sustainable materials.
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Orbital Materials adjacent
Generative AI for advanced materials and industrial deployment.
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