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Funding and backers

Total raised
$100M
11 rounds on record
Latest round
Venture round
Jul 2024 · 2 yr ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
2
open roles
Grants
$175k
2 grants · CORDIS
Backers
1
Endeavor
The money's age
Long since its last round
27 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
15/100
in the news
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
Jul 12, 2024 Raised a round Venture round Jun 18, 2024 Partnership Syngenta and InstaDeep collaborate to accelerate crops seeds trait research using AI Large Language Models · businesswire.com Nov 1, 2023 Won a grant $175k · CORDIS Jul 31, 2023 Raised a round Venture round Jan 10, 2023 Acquired BioNTech acquires InstaDeep in biggest deal to date, aiming to push beyond COVID-19 · MM+M - Medical Marketing and Media Dec 26, 2022 Raised a round Venture round Jun 28, 2022 Raised a round Venture round Feb 8, 2022 Raised a round Venture round Jan 24, 2022 Raised a round Series B $100M May 10, 2021 Raised a round Venture round Nov 25, 2020 Partnership BioNTech and InstaDeep Announce Strategic Collaboration and Form AI Innovation Lab to Develop Novel Immunotherapies · globenewswire Jun 1, 2020 Won a grant CORDIS Dec 31, 2019 Raised a round Venture round Mar 31, 2018 Raised a round Venture round Oct 8, 2015 Incorporated INSTADEEP LTD · Companies House 2014 Founded
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Web presence
top 0.02%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
GitHub stars
63 public repositories
Hacker News stories
3
best: 3 points
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Venture round Jul 2024 — — find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk
Grant Nov 2023 $175k — CORDIS
Venture round Jul 2023 — — find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk
Venture round Dec 2022 — — find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk
Venture round Jun 2022 — — find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk
Venture round Feb 2022 — — find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk
Series B Jan 2022 $100M — businesswire.com
Venture round May 2021 — — find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk
Grant Jun 2020 — — CORDIS
Venture round Dec 2019 — — find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk
Venture round Mar 2018 — — find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
Legal entity INSTADEEP LTD Companies House
Registered 8 Oct 2015
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Overview

InstaDeep is an artificial intelligence company founded in Tunis in 2014 that applies reinforcement learning and deep learning to decision-making problems in biology, logistics and chip design. It built early warning systems for viral variants and optimisation products for railway and manufacturing operations. BioNTech acquired the company in 2023, and it continues to run research offices across Europe and Africa.

News

News TNW Artificial-intelligence 1 month ago
The Ineffable Intelligence cofounders who did not found it
Six new Ineffable Intelligence cofounders arrive from DeepMind, InstaDeep and a Seattle VC. Fortune broke it. None of them founded the company.
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News Crypto Briefing 1 month ago
Ineffable Intelligence hires six cofounders from Google DeepMind, InstaDeep, Flying Fish
Ineffable Intelligence adds six cofounders from Google DeepMind, InstaDeep, and Flying Fish after closing a record $1.1 billion European seed
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News Fortune 1 month ago
Exclusive: Ineffable Intelligence adds six "cofounders," hiring veterans from Google DeepMind, InstaDeep and venture firm Flying Fish
The startup, valued at $5 billion, wants to build superintelligence using the same methods that DeepMind used for breakthroughs in games-playing AIs
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News Nature 12 months ago
Annotating the genome at single-nucleotide resolution with DNA foundation models
Genome annotation models that directly analyze DNA sequences are indispensable for modern biological research, enabling rapid and accurate identification of genes and other functional elements. Current annotation tools are typically developed for specific
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News Nature 12 months ago
Annotating the genome at single-nucleotide resolution with DNA foundation models
Genome annotation models that directly analyze DNA sequences are indispensable for modern biological research, enabling rapid and accurate identification of genes and other functional elements. Current annotation tools are typically developed for specific
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News Nature 1 year ago
Protein sequence modelling with Bayesian flow networks
Exploring the vast and largely uncharted territory of amino acid sequences is crucial for understanding complex protein functions and the engineering of novel therapeutic proteins. Whilst generative machine learning has advanced protein sequence modelling
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News Nature 1 year ago
Protein sequence modelling with Bayesian flow networks
Exploring the vast and largely uncharted territory of amino acid sequences is crucial for understanding complex protein functions and the engineering of novel therapeutic proteins. Whilst generative machine learning has advanced protein sequence modelling
Read more
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News Rest of World 2 years ago
How InstaDeep became Africa's biggest AI startup success
InstaDeep's acquisition by BioNTech was Africa's largest AI deal. Karim Beguir, co-founder and CEO, spoke on building AI products for European and American businesses.
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at InstaDeep over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
7
Postings analysed
2
Stack modernity
73/100
Languages
Python
Frameworks & libraries
Qiskit
Cloud & platforms
GCP
arXiv
Practices & domains
IAM
Machine Learning
VPN
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
63/100
Growing
Open positions
2
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
10/20/2026
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.
Security
50% ▼
Early Careers
50% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Machine Learning to stack Sep 2026
Added VPN to stack Sep 2026
New location: Paris Sep 2026
Added Qiskit to stack Sep 2026
Added Python to stack Sep 2026
Added arXiv to stack Sep 2026
Added IAM to stack Aug 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
1 open roles 100% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Security
seen since May 2026 job postings
Paris France
1 open roles 50-200 est. staff
hires for Early Careers
seen since Feb 2026 job postings

Jobs

≈ $97k – $172k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • London
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Financials

Total raised
$100.2M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
11
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2024 — Details
Grant 2023 $175k Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2023 — Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2022 — Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2022 — Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2022 — Details
Series B 2022 $100M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2021 — Details
Grant 2020 — Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2019 — Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2018 — Details