# Edison Scientific

> Edison Scientific is a San Francisco AI company building autonomous 'AI scientists' that can run hundreds of research tasks in parallel. Spun out of the nonprofit FutureHouse in 2025, its flagship product Kosmos compresses what researchers call six months of work into a single day, reading 1,500 papers and writing 42,000 lines of analysis code per run. The company raised $70M in seed funding at a $250M valuation in December 2025.

- **Founded:** 2025
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** Samuel G. Rodriques (Co-founder & CEO), Andrew White (Co-founder & CTO)
- **Team size:** ~61 employees
- **Products:** Kosmos, PaperQA3, LAB-Bench 2
- **Notable:** Spun out of nonprofit FutureHouse in 2025 at a $250M valuation., First validated AI scientific discoveries (Robin, 2025) published in Nature., Raised $70M seed - one of the largest seed rounds in AI-for-science.

## Products & services

- **Kosmos** — Flagship AI scientist that runs hundreds of research tasks in parallel, reading literature, analyzing data, and producing lab-ready scientific reports with linked citations.
- **PaperQA3** — Multimodal deep research agent for scientific literature analysis.
- **LAB-Bench 2** — Open benchmark for measuring AI performance on biology research tasks.

## Achievements

- Spun out of nonprofit FutureHouse in 2025 at a $250M valuation.
- First validated AI scientific discoveries (Robin, 2025) published in Nature.
- Raised $70M seed - one of the largest seed rounds in AI-for-science.
- Kosmos reads 1,500 papers and writes 42,000 lines of code in a single run.

## Latest updates

- **2025-11** — Launched Kosmos publicly; free tier for academic researchers.
- **2025-12** — Closed $70M seed at $250M valuation, co-led by Spark Capital and Triatomic Capital.
- **2026-03** — NVIDIA case study published on scaling Kosmos with Nemotron models.

## Links

- Website: https://edisonscientific.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/edison-scientific
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/EdisonSci
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUyE4mu0Yhw

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Last updated: 2026-05-19