LGND
Artificial Intelligence · LLM & Generative AI
$9Mlatest round · Venture round · Jul 2025 · 15 mo ago
4backers · E14 Fund, Javelin Venture Partners
$150kgrants · 1 grant · CORDIS
2024founded
Overview
Turn decades of satellite and aerial imagery into instant insights. LGND delivers fast, scalable Earth intelligence through intuitive apps, embeddings, and APIs.
Funding and backers
Total raised
$9M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$9M
Venture round · Jul 2025 · 15 mo ago
Grants
$150k
1 grant · CORDIS
Backers
4
E14 Fund, Javelin Venture Partners
The money's age
Due for its next round
15 months since the last round · not hiring
Momentum
15/100
in the news
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Aug 18, 2025
Won a grant $150k · CORDIS
Jul 15, 2025
Raised a round Venture round $9M · led by Javelin Venture Partners · Pulse 2.0
2024
Founded
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Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grant | Aug 2025 | $150k | — | CORDIS |
| Venture round | Jul 2025 | $9M | Javelin Venture Partners lead, Jo | Pulse 2.0 |
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News
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ELLE: Embeddings Linearly contain their Loss Estimate
Foundation model CLS embeddings linearly encode their own per-sample pretraining loss - readable by a Ridge probe in 1 us, with no labels and no extra forward passes. Validated across 20 models and 6 modalities.
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LGND AI: $9 Million Secured For Improving Earth Data
LGND AI, a company innovating how people and AI interact with Earth data, announced it has raised $9 million in financing. The round was led by Javelin Venture Partners, with participation from several other firms and notable angel investors, including Jo
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Exclusive: LGND wants to make ChatGPT for the Earth
LGND has raised $9 million to convert geographic data into vector embeddings to power AI models that understand the Earth.
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LGND Rebranding
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Fintel reports that on October 3, 2024, Oppenheimer initiated coverage of Ligand Pharmaceuticals (NasdaqGM:LGND) with a Outperform recommendation.
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LGND vs. ILMN: Which Stock Is the Better Value Option?
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Where the company hires and what each office is for
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Hiring now
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Countries
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Tysons
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