Draper Associates leads $4.5M seed for Potato, AI scientists

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We just led the $4.5M seed round of Potato. Because we at Draper Associates believe that accelerating science, and unlocking runaway knowledge production, is a bigger unlock than the internet itself. Potato is building autonomous AI scientists: agents that can read research, form hypotheses, design experiments, and run them across code and chemistry. This is how we 10x the pace of life sciences research and unlock discoveries that would’ve taken decades - at a fraction of the cost. This is end-to-end, closed-loop science. Faster, cheaper, and infinitely scalable. → Literature reviews, automated → Protocols, generated → Experiments, executed → Results, reproducible Potato is already powering research at MIT, Stanford, Harvard, Caltech, Berkeley, and beyond. Congrats to Nick Edwards, PhD and Ryan Kosai. Your vision has the potential to redefine how humanity discovers. Read more via GeekWire: https://lnkd.in/gjttp_up

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Thanks for believing in us! Nothing more important than unlocking fundamental scientific discoveries

How do you ensure this runaway knowledge production is not used for bioterrorism? I didn't see a concrete safety plan for the company on their website. Perhaps you could require that as part of your investment? Your children deserve at least that, yes? If you'd like, please consider answering some or all of these questions: existentialsafety.org/questions. We can't only look at the upside; we must also fully acknowledge and prepare for the downside.

Congratulations! Excited to see how Potato will push boundaries and unlock new discoveries for humanity 👏

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But if people like you own it all, the rest of us will just revolution @ iamai-core.

Congrats Tim Draper. Potato isn’t just accelerating research - it’s redefining science as infrastructure. By turning the scientific method into an AI-native, end-to-end pipeline, it unlocks exponential hypothesis generation, autonomous experimentation, and cross-disciplinary insights at scale. This model shifts us from scarcity-driven discovery to abundance-driven innovation, where R&D becomes a compounding asset class. If OpenAI revolutionized how we interact with language, Potato may do the same for how humanity discovers truth. What OpenAI did for language, Potato could do for knowledge itself!

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End-to-end, closed-loop science has the potential to change the entire R&D paradigm. Huge congrats to Potato and the team.

without consciousness, AI will be forever rely on pre trained data and risking all mistakes at each step. We need ACI rather than unsustainable AGI.

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Please build a scientist agent solely focused on translation, transliteration, hermenutics, and cyphers. The stored value in human letters is almost immeasurable as it’s the first technology.

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“What should I we call this awesome company?!….” “Ok let’s think of other companies with good names! …. Apple?” “Great idea Frank, something like ‘Apple’…..:: wait a minute! I’ve got it! …….. POTATO!” …… well played!

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