# Nextnet

> Nextnet is a San Francisco-based life sciences AI platform that unifies the world's biomedical data into a semantic web, helping researchers find evidence-backed answers and connections across literature, genes, drugs, targets, and diseases. Its products - Nextnet Copilot and Nextnet Explorer - serve researchers at institutions including Harvard, MIT, UCSF, MD Anderson, and Columbia.

- **Founded:** 2021
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Steven Banerjee (Founder & CEO), Jason Collins (Co-founder, Head of Product & Growth), Malik Alimoekhamedov (Co-founder, Head of Engineering), Derek Park (Co-founder, Head of Data & Science)
- **Team size:** ~30
- **Products:** Nextnet Copilot, Nextnet Explorer, Semantic Web
- **Notable:** 1,200% organic growth in one year, Adopted by 25+ top research institutions including Harvard, MIT, UCSF, Scaled to users in 100+ countries

## Products & services

- **Nextnet Copilot** — AI research assistant providing evidence-backed answers grounded in verified scientific sources, with citations linking to paper excerpts.
- **Nextnet Explorer** — Connected search engine with interactive brainstorming maps that visualize relationships across literature, genes, drugs, targets, pathways, and diseases.
- **Semantic Web** — Unified biomedical knowledge base built from ChEMBL, PubMed, Ensembl, Google Scholar and other major life science data sources.

## Achievements

- 1,200% organic growth in one year
- Adopted by 25+ top research institutions including Harvard, MIT, UCSF
- Scaled to users in 100+ countries
- 9 million articles scanned per query
- 10,350 new connections discovered monthly

## Latest updates

- **2023-05** — Closed seed funding round (~$1.3M).
- **2025-01** — Refreshed product suite around Copilot and Explorer.
- **2025-09** — Updated pricing tiers for researchers, biotechs, and academic institutions.

## Links

- Website: https://getnextnet.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/getnextnet
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/getnextnet
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@getnextnet

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Last updated: 2026-06-28