aid: inceptive
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name: Inceptive
description: Inceptive is an AI biotechnology company founded in 2021 by transformer co-author Jakob
  Uszkoreit and Stanford biochemist Rhiju Das, building foundation models of life to rationally design
  sequence-based medicines such as mRNA, siRNA, ASOs, and peptides. The company pairs large-scale deep
  learning with high-throughput in-house wet-lab experiments in a tight design-build-test loop, then
  licenses successful molecules to pharmaceutical partners. Inceptive is headquartered in Palo Alto with
  offices in Berlin and Zurich, is backed by a16z Bio + Health, Obvious Ventures, NVentures (NVIDIA),
  and S32, and has announced strategic collaborations including a multi-year agreement with Alnylam
  Pharmaceuticals. Inceptive is a research-partner biotech and does not currently publish a public API,
  developer portal, SDK, or documentation surface.
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x-source: vc-portfolio
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- obvious-ventures
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Artificial Intelligence
- Biotechnology
- RNA
- Drug Discovery
- Machine Learning
- Foundation Models
- Life Sciences
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
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- type: Website
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- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://inceptive.com/privacy-policy
- type: Blog
  url: https://inceptive.com/#media
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/inceptivenucleics/
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