# Evo

Type: Technology

Source: Startup Intelligence Brief — https://getstartupbrief.com/entity/evo
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## Timeline

- **2026-06-15**: Stealth Exit and $50M Seed Round — Radical Numerics emerges from stealth with a $50 million seed round led by Emergence Capital, marking the official launch of the company aiming to reinvent biology through AI-generated DNA.
- **2025-09**: First AI-Designed Functional Virus — Researchers using open-source Evo weights create the world's first fully AI-designed functional virus, harmless to humans, demonstrating the viability of generative genomics and prompting the team to form Radical Numerics.

## Recent coverage (1 stories)

### From PhD Purpose Search to $50M Seed: Radical Numerics’ AI DNA Bet
2026-06-16 00:20:57 · Sentiment: Strongly positive · Impact: 8/10 · Sources: 2

Eric Nguyen’s quest for purpose led to Radical Numerics, a startup that just raised $50 million in seed funding to commercialize AI-generated DNA. The founding team, creators of Evo models, navigates the venture landscape with a deeptech platform that could reshape biology.
Full story: https://getstartupbrief.com/story/radical-numerics-50m-seed-ai-dna-startups

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