# Inceptive

> Inceptive builds AI models and experimental data to design sequence-based medicines, including mRNA and siRNA. Drugmakers customize the models for discovery programs. A 2026 Alnylam collaboration and a small CAR-T mouse study are the clearest public tests of its approach.

- **Founded:** 2021
- **Headquarters:** Palo Alto, United States
- **Founders:** Jakob Uszkoreit (Co-founder and CEO), Rhiju Das (Co-founder; Stanford biochemist)
- **Products:** Foundation models for sequence medicines, RNA design and data generation, In vivo CAR-T research platform
- **Notable:** Raised a reported $120 million across seed and Series A rounds by September 2023., Signed a June 2026 Alnylam collaboration with $30 million upfront and a conditional $2 billion ceiling., Reported that three of five fine-tuned CAR-T mRNA designs beat a comparator in a 24-hour humanized-mouse experiment.

## Products & services

- **Foundation models for sequence medicines** — Models trained on biological sequence, function and structure data, customized for pharmaceutical discovery programs.
- **RNA design and data generation** — Model-guided design of mRNA, siRNA and other molecules, with synthesis and laboratory testing to produce more training data.
- **In vivo CAR-T research platform** — Preclinical work on AI-designed CAR-expressing mRNA combined with partner lipid nanoparticles.

## Achievements

- Raised a reported $120 million across seed and Series A rounds by September 2023.
- Signed a June 2026 Alnylam collaboration with $30 million upfront and a conditional $2 billion ceiling.
- Reported that three of five fine-tuned CAR-T mRNA designs beat a comparator in a 24-hour humanized-mouse experiment.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Published a small humanized-mouse CAR-T study in which three of five AI-designed mRNA sequences exceeded a benchmark.
- **2026-06** — Announced the Alnylam RNAi collaboration and initial CAR-T platform results.

## Links

- Website: https://inceptive.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/inceptivenucleics

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Last updated: 2026-09-29