Overview
- The seed round was led by General Catalyst with participation from Toyota Ventures, Perplexity Fund, MaC Ventures and S32.
- Autoscience plans to deploy hundreds of automated AI research agents that continuously generate, validate and ship improvements to clients’ machine‑learning models.
- Initial production deployments are targeted for financial applications, manufacturing and fraud detection at select Fortune 500 and large private companies.
- The company cites prior milestones including a peer‑reviewed ICLR 2025 workshop paper and a Silver Medal in the Kaggle Santa 2025 competition against more than 3,300 teams.
- General Catalyst’s Yuri Sagalov said the approach addresses the need to test, validate and translate new ideas into production systems, and Autoscience will also expand its engineering team.