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Backed byBonfire Ventures

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Total raised$4.0M
StageSeed
Hiring pace4 roles / 90d
Founded2023
Team size11-50
HQSan Francisco, California
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About mithrl

Mithrl AI positions itself as the scientific decision engine for pharmaceutical and biotech research and development. The company's mission is to transform raw data into defensible decisions faster, enabling organizations to accelerate discovery processes in the highly competitive pharma and biotech sectors. By turning data into actionable breakthroughs, Mithrl AI helps R&D teams make informed decisions more quickly, addressing a critical need in an industry where speed and scientific rigor are paramount. The company serves the pharma and biotech R&D market with a focus on streamlining the discovery process through advanced data analysis and decision support.

Open positions · 4

Company at a glance

Location
San Francisco, California
Websitemithrl.com
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Founders & Leadership

DH

Dennis Houghton

Co-Founder

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SD

Shara Balakrishnan, Ph.D.

Co-founder & CTO, Mithrl | IIT-Madras

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VA

Vivek Adarsh

Co-founder & CEO, Mithrl

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NT

Naomi Thomson

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About the Team

Team Distribution

  • Engineering33%
  • Sales & Business Development29%
  • Product & Design24%
  • Leadership5%
  • Operations5%

Team Worked At

  • Illumina
  • QIAGEN
  • Thermo Fisher Scientific
  • Pfizer
  • Merck

Team Composition

13 people
  • Business Development1 senior2
  • Research2
  • Arts and Design1
  • Consulting1
  • Engineering1
  • Entrepreneurship1 senior1
  • Healthcare Services1
  • Information Technology1 senior1

Culture & values

Emphasizes full transparency and reproducibility in discovery data workflows.

Aims to empower scientists to spend more time designing experiments, testing insights, and driving high-quality discoveries.

Encourages cross-disciplinary collaboration among discovery researchers by enabling instant alignment and iterative hypothesis analysis across therapeutic areas.

Values reducing manual coding and repetitive setup by automating time-consuming processes, enabling efficiency and focus on core research tasks.

Funding History

SeedNov 2024

$4M

raised

Mithrl, an AI-powered scientific research platform, raised a $4M Seed round led by Bonfire Ventures.

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