Basecamp Research
basecamp-research.com
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AI Training Data & Annotation
Bioinformatics
AI for Science
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$160M
9 rounds on record
Latest round
$140M
Series C · Sep 2026 · this month
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
13
+7 posted in 30 days
Grants
$557k
2 grants · CORDIS
Backers
3
Hummingbird Ventures, Redalpine
The money's age
Fresh money
0 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
67/100
hiring for its size, a new city, in the news, fresh money
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Sep 23
Raised a round Series C $140M
Sep 21
Raised a round Venture round
Jun 1
Won a grant $395k · CORDIS
Jan 12
Launched Basecamp Research launches world-first AI models for programmable gene insertion · PRNewswire
Jan 1
Won a grant $162k · CORDIS
Jan 6, 2025
New executive UPDATE - Basecamp Research Appoints John Finn, Ph.D., as CSO, Expands Internationally with U.S. Lab and Offices, and Builds One of Europe's Largest I… · marketwatch.com
Sep 9, 2024
Raised a round Venture round
Dec 13, 2022
Raised a round Series A $20M
Dec 1, 2022
Raised a round Venture round
Aug 9, 2022
Raised a round Venture round
Aug 12, 2021
Raised a round Venture round
Dec 9, 2019
Founded per the company register
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Web presence
top 0.91%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series C | Sep 2026 | $140M | — | thepharmaletter.com |
| Venture round | Sep 2026 | — | — | find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk |
| Grant | Jun 2026 | $395k | — | CORDIS |
| Grant | Jan 2026 | $162k | — | CORDIS |
| Venture round | Sep 2024 | — | — | find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk |
| Series A | Dec 2022 | $20M | — | businesswire.com |
| Venture round | Dec 2022 | — | — | find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk |
| Venture round | Aug 2022 | — | — | find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk |
| Venture round | Aug 2021 | — | — | find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | BASECAMP RESEARCH LTD | Companies House |
| Registered | 9 Dec 2019 |
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Hummingbird Ventures 
Redalpine 
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How Basecamp Research hires
Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%
Basecamp Research scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 3 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 100% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Visa sponsorship
- United States · Filed H-1B visas in the last two years
- United Kingdom · Licensed UK visa sponsor (Skilled Worker)
Overview
Basecamp Research is a London biotechnology company founded in 2019 that builds the biodiversity datasets used to train protein and enzyme design models. It collects samples through partnerships with countries and protected sites under benefit-sharing agreements, then sequences and structures them into a proprietary knowledge graph. The data underpins its own generative protein models and is licensed to pharmaceutical and industrial biotechnology partners.
News
/C O R R E C T I O N -- Basecamp Research/
In the news release, Basecamp Research raises $140M to advance AI-designed therapeutics, issued 23-Sep-2026 by Basecamp Research over PR Newswire, we are...
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AI drug discovery startup Basecamp Research raises $140M
AI drug discovery startup Basecamp Research raises $140M - SiliconANGLE
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Basecamp Research Raises $140 Million Series C Led By S32 To Advance AI-Designed Therapeutics
Basecamp Research, a London-based biotechnology company developing AI-designed medicines, has raised an oversubscribed $140 million Series C financing led by S32, with participation from NVIDIA, Anthropic's Anthology Fund, Catalio Capital Management, NATO
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September 23, 2026 Basecamp raises 140M Series C, unveils six-program pipeline in test of its AI
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Basecamp Research: We need AI that intuitively understands biology
Glen Gowers, Co-Founder and CEO of Basecamp Research, discusses how AI can be harnessed to help make new discoveries in biological research.
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Basecamp Research brings EDEN
/PRNewswire/ -- Basecamp Research today announced that its antibiotic design and vaccine target prediction EDEN models are now available through Claude,...
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Basecamp Research over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
22
Postings analysed
16
Stack modernity
71/100
Languages
C++6%
Go6%
Rust6%
Frameworks & libraries
Dagster13%
CUDA6%
XLA6%
JAX6%
Databases
Oracle6%
Cloud & platforms
Anthropic100%
CUDA Toolkit6%
Kubernetes6%
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22 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$200k
Typical range
$140k – $250k
Open positions
7
7
Jobs
Junior
14.3%
Senior
71.4%
Staff
14.3%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 1 | $140k | $140k |
| Senior | 5 | $200k | $165k – $220k |
| Staff | 1 | $250k | $250k |
Highest paying role
Product Lead, Peptide Therapeutics
$250k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Basecamp Research
By role, level and city, against the market · 7 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
76/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
13
5 opened / 1 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
92 days
faster than 15% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Science & Research
45% ▲
Product
18% ▼
Administrative
9% ▲
Management
9% ▲
Sales
9% ▼
Field & Service
9% ▼
Actively hiring for Science & Research (+4 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
New location: Cambridge
Oct 2026
Added Multimodal AI to stack
Sep 2026
Added Interpretability to stack
Sep 2026
Added Slack to stack
Sep 2026
Added Google Workspace to stack
Sep 2026
Added Anthropic to stack
Sep 2026
Added AI Agents to stack
Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack
Sep 2026
Added Agile to stack
Sep 2026
Added XLA to stack
Sep 2026
Added Rust to stack
Sep 2026
Added Oracle to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
2
Countries
2
Busiest office
London
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London
United Kingdom
HQ
6 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 50% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for AI/ML, Management, Sales
Boston
United States
Regional office
7 open roles 7 posted in 90 days 57% engineering 50-200 est. staff $194k Avg Salary
hires for Science & Research, Product, Administrative
Jobs
$200k – $250k per year • In office • Full-Time • PhD • Boston
Fine-tuning
Anthropic
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$160k – $220k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Master's Degree • Boston
Fine-tuning
Reinforcement Learning
Anthropic
Post-training
Management
Basecamp
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≈ $115k – $214k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • PhD • London
Reinforcement Learning
Multimodal AI
Anthropic
Interpretability
Machine Learning
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≈ $111k – $207k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • PhD • London
Dagster
CUDA Toolkit
JAX
MLX ML
PyTorch
CUDA
Anthropic
XLA
DevOps
Kubernetes
Platform Engineering
Management
Basecamp
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Financials
Total raised
$160.6M
Latest round
Series C
Funding rounds
9
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Series C | 2026 | $140M | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2026 | — | Details |
| Grant | 2026 | $395k | Details |
| Grant | 2026 | $162k | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2024 | — | Details |
| Series A | 2022 | $20M | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2022 | — | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2022 | — | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2021 | — | Details |