Mirendil announced its formal launch with a $200 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins. NVIDIA also invested in the company, along with other backers.
Mirendil was co-founded by CEO Behnam Neyshabur, Harsh Mehta, Shayan Salehian, and Tara Rezaei. Neyshabur previously co-led the Discovery team at Anthropic and co-led the Blueshift team at Google DeepMind.
The company is focused on accelerating science and technology by building AI systems designed to improve AI research and development itself.
Mirendil’s thesis is that self-accelerating AI R&D is one of the most direct paths to unlocking broader AI progress. The company believes that AI applied to AI research can create a compounding loop that changes the rate of progress across scientific and technological domains.
The company also aims to democratize access to this capability. Mirendil said more businesses, science labs, and frontier research groups should be able to own their AI systems and infrastructure rather than depend entirely on a small number of major AI labs.
Mirendil’s founding team includes 20 researchers and engineers from frontier AI institutions including Anthropic, xAI, Google DeepMind, and OpenAI.
The company is positioning its work around building systems that can help other systems improve faster, with a focus on giving scientific teams more control over their AI infrastructure, margins, and long-term technical direction.
Mirendil said its mission is to build technology that accelerates scientific discovery and technological innovation.
