# Discovery Loop raises seed round from Radical Ventures, Khosla Ventures, others

> Discovery Loop, the new startup reportedly founded by a cluster of senior Google AI researchers including Jeff Dean, has raised a seed round to fund its ambition of automating scientific research. The round is co-led by Radical Ventures and Khosla Ventures, with a deep bench of additional investors that includes Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed, Doerr Capital, and, tellingly, Alphabet itself. The pedigree of both the founders and the cap table explains the enthusiasm. Backers are betting that a team this experienced can build systems that generate and test hypotheses at machine scale, running many experiments in parallel rather than one at a time. Structuring the company as a public benefit corporation is a deliberate signal about how it wants its science-first mission perceived. The size of the seed was not disclosed, but the names attached suggest this was not a modest first check. It is an early, high-conviction wager that the next frontier for AI is discovery itself.

_Section: [AI Funding Tracker](https://www.wortins.com/funding) · Source: TechCrunch · Published Thursday, August 13, 2026_

## Wortins' read

Discovery Loop, the new startup reportedly founded by a cluster of senior Google AI researchers including Jeff Dean, has raised a seed round to fund its ambition of automating scientific research. The round is co-led by Radical Ventures and Khosla Ventures, with a deep bench of additional investors that includes Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed, Doerr Capital, and, tellingly, Alphabet itself. The pedigree of both the founders and the cap table explains the enthusiasm. Backers are betting that a team this experienced can build systems that generate and test hypotheses at machine scale, running many experiments in parallel rather than one at a time. Structuring the company as a public benefit corporation is a deliberate signal about how it wants its science-first mission perceived. The size of the seed was not disclosed, but the names attached suggest this was not a modest first check. It is an early, high-conviction wager that the next frontier for AI is discovery itself.

## Source

[Read the full story at TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/05/jeff-dean-and-other-top-ai-researchers-are-leaving-google-to-launch-their-own-startup/)

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