CuspAI
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$480M
6 rounds on record
Latest round
Venture round
Aug 2026 · 2 mo ago
Team
501-1000
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
23
+15 posted in 30 days
Backers
7
Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners
The money's age
Fresh money
2 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
71/100
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
Aug 17
Raised a round Venture round
Jul 19
Launched CuspAI Launches 'AI Materials Foundry' a Global Network to Accelerate Breakthrough Discoveries · businesswire.com
Jul 19
Raised a round Series B $450M · eWeek
Mar 18
Raised a round Venture round
Nov 6, 2025
Raised a round Venture round
Nov 22, 2024
Raised a round Venture round
Jun 18, 2024
Raised a round Seed $30M · TechCrunch
Mar 9, 2024
Founded per the company register
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Web presence
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Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Aug 2026 | — | — | find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk |
| Series B | Jul 2026 | $450M | — | eWeek |
| Venture round | Mar 2026 | — | — | find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk |
| Venture round | Nov 2025 | — | — | find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk |
| Venture round | Nov 2024 | — | — | find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk |
| Seed | Jun 2024 | $30M | — | TechCrunch |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | CUSP AI LIMITED | Companies House |
| Registered | 9 Mar 2024 |
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
Kleiner Perkins 
Lightspeed Venture Partners 
NEA 
Scribble Ventures 
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How CuspAI hires
Truth index
A 88/100
Median time to fill
74 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
17%
Reposted roles
17%
CuspAI scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 6 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 17% have gone stale and 17% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 74 days. 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
News
CuspAI valued at $2.6B as Bezos, Nvidia, and Meta join AI chip materials push
CuspAI, an AI startup in chip materials, has convinced Jeff Bezos, Nvidia, and Meta to put some skin in the game and back its AI chip materials push.Jeff Bezos has nodded to the call by CuspAI, an artificial intelligence...
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CuspAI Raises $450 Million Series B At $2.6 Billion Valuation To Discover New Materials
CuspAI has raised $450 million in Series B funding to expand its artificial intelligence platform for discovering new materials. The financing values the British startup at approximately $2.6 billion. Kleiner Perkins and New Enterprise Associates co-led t
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Bezos backs CuspAI as startup teams up with Nvidia to hunt for chipmaking materials
CuspAI is part of a new wave of companies looking to use AI to solve challenges in the physical world.
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Jeff Bezos and UK government invest in £2bn British startup CuspAI
Company aims to develop AI software that cuts research times and use of rare metals in chipmakers' supply chains
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CuspAI Launches 'AI Materials Foundry' a Global Network to Accelerate Breakthrough Discoveries
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CuspAI Raises $450M as AI Materials Discovery Enters Its Validation Phase
CuspAI raised $450 million to expand its AI materials platform, but commercial-scale validation and manufacturing proof remain limited.
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AI material discovery startup CuspAI reportedly raising $400M round
AI material discovery startup CuspAI reportedly raising $400M round - SiliconANGLE
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at CuspAI over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
78
Postings analysed
30
Stack modernity
71/100AI adopter
Languages
Python43%
Node JS7%
SQL7%
TypeScript7%
Frameworks & libraries
PyTorch20%
Django7%
FastAPI7%
Flask7%
Databases
Apache Hudi3%
Apache Iceberg3%
Delta Lake3%
Cloud & platforms
Kubernetes20%
GCP17%
AWS10%
Azure7%
AI & ML
LLM7%
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Full CuspAI tech stack
78 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Growth
Hiring Momentum
82/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
23
9 opened / 11 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
72 days
faster than 18% 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.
Product
26% ▼
Sales
26% ▲
AI/ML
11% ▼
HR
7% ▼
Marketing
7% ▲
Backend
4% ▲
Actively hiring for Sales (+6 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added Figma to stack
Oct 2026
Added SFT to stack
Oct 2026
Added Self-Supervised Learning to stack
Oct 2026
Added Pre-training to stack
Oct 2026
Added Post-training to stack
Oct 2026
Added Multimodal AI to stack
Oct 2026
Added GRPO to stack
Oct 2026
Added Fine-tuning to stack
Oct 2026
Added Embeddings to stack
Oct 2026
Added Computer Vision to stack
Oct 2026
Added HubSpot to stack
Oct 2026
Added Agile to stack
Oct 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
5
Hiring now
5
Countries
5
Busiest office
Cambridge
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Cambridge
United Kingdom
HQ
17 open roles 21 posted in 90 days 47% engineering 200-500 est. staff
hires for Sales, AI/ML, Product
Berlin
Germany
Engineering / R&D
13 open roles 17 posted in 90 days 62% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for AI/ML, Sales, Data Science
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Regional office
12 open roles 15 posted in 90 days 67% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for AI/ML, Sales, Data Science
Singapore
Singapore
Regional office
4 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 25% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Product, Management, Sales
Tokyo
Japan
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Product
Earlier presence
London, United Kingdom
Jobs
≈ $53k – $126k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Cambridge • Amsterdam • Berlin
LLM
LLM Guardrails
DevOps
Terraform
GCP
GitHub Actions
Pulumi
GitLab CI
Azure
CI/CD
Jenkins
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
IAM
Cybersecurity
OWASP Top 10
SOC 2
GDPR
Least Privilege
Shift-Left Security
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Hybrid • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Cambridge • Amsterdam • Berlin
Weights & Biases
DeepSpeed
Quantization
Knowledge Distillation
PyTorch
CUDA
Triton
Megatron-LM
TPU
NCCL
Model Distillation
Machine Learning
DevOps
GCP
Azure
AWS
SRE
HPC
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≈ $66k – $143k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • Cambridge • Amsterdam • Berlin
Python
Go
JAX
TensorFlow
PyTorch
KServe
Triton
TorchServe
Flyte
DevOps
Terraform
GCP
Helm
SLURM
CI/CD
GitOps
AWS
Kubernetes
Configuration Management
HPC
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≈ $58k – $154k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • Amsterdam • Berlin • Cambridge
Python
Apache Iceberg
Delta Lake
Apache Hudi
AI/ML
Dagster
Prefect
Ray
Flyte
Machine Learning
DevOps
Docker
Kubernetes
Apache HTTP Server
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≈ $28k – $68k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • PhD • Singapore
Python
Machine Learning
DevOps
Git
Apply
≈ $50k – $94k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • PhD • Amsterdam • Berlin • Cambridge
Python
Machine Learning
DevOps
Git
Apply
≈ $64k – $145k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • 4+ years exp • Amsterdam • Berlin • Cambridge
Python
JavaScript
TypeScript
Node JS
Flask
FastAPI
Django
Frontend
Vue.js
React.js
DevOps
GCP
Docker
Kubernetes
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≈ $59k – $119k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • PhD • Amsterdam • Berlin • Cambridge
Python
Machine Learning
Life Sciences
LIMS
Design of Experiments
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≈ $52k – $128k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • 1+ year exp • Master's Degree • Cambridge • Amsterdam • Berlin
Embeddings
RLHF
Reinforcement Learning
Multimodal AI
Computer Vision
Self-Supervised Learning
SFT
GRPO
Post-training
Pre-training
Machine Learning
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≈ $125k – $264k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • United States
Python
AI Agents
PyTorch
Machine Learning
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≈ $55k – $143k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • Tokyo
Python
AI Agents
PyTorch
Machine Learning
Apply
Hybrid • Full-Time • 4+ years exp • Master's Degree • Amsterdam • Berlin • Cambridge
RLHF
Reinforcement Learning
JAX
AI Agents
PyTorch
LLM
RLAIF
DevOps
CI/CD
Apply
Financials
Total raised
$480M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
6