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Exscientia: Funding, Investors & Team (Sep 2026)

Exscientia is using artificial intelligence and big data processing to speed up the process of discovering and developing drugs. They are leading the way in the field of finding small molecule drugs. They have become the first company to automate drug design, surpassing the efforts of humans. Their AI-powered systems constantly learn from extensive databases of discovery information and also gain knowledge from experienced drug researchers. With access to more information than any individual researcher could gather, their systems create millions of new compounds tailored to specific projects and evaluate each compound for its predicted effectiveness, selectivity, ADME, and other important factors. The most promising compounds are then selected for synthesis and testing. With the generation of new experimental data, the results are analyzed and the next round of design begins. This rapid cycle of designing, making, and testing ensures remarkable progress towards the desired project objectives. Exscientia has already achieved remarkable productivity, delivering potential drug candidates in a fraction of the time compared to traditional methods.

www.exscientia.ai LinkedIn Oxford, United Kingdom 251-500 employees
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Biotechnology Health Care Pharmaceutical B2B B2C
Total raised
$102M
Rounds
2
Latest
Undisclosed round
Dec 2023

Exscientia has raised $102M across 2 funding rounds on record, the most recent an undisclosed round of $2.3M announced in Dec 2023.

That round is below the $5.5M median round size for Artificial Intelligence companies tracked on FundedIQ over the last two years.

Exscientia Company Profile and Key Stats

Total funding raised
$102M
across 2 rounds on record
Funding rounds on record
2
Latest funding round
Undisclosed round
$2.3M in Dec 2023
Employees
251-500
reported band
Headquarters
Oxford, United Kingdom

Latest funding round on record: Dec 2023.

Exscientia Funding Rounds

Date
Round
Amount
Undisclosed round
$2.3M
Post-IPO Equity
$100M

Exscientia raised $100M in a Post-IPO Equity announced in Jan 2022.

1.9 years later, an undisclosed round of $2.3M was announced in Dec 2023.

Exscientia Founders and Leadership Team

Name
Role
Contact
Andrew Hopkins
CEO
Locked

Contact details for the Exscientia team: 1 of 1 has an email address on file.

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Exscientia Funding FAQs

What does Exscientia do?

Exscientia is using artificial intelligence and big data processing to speed up the process of discovering and developing drugs. They are leading the way in the field of finding small molecule drugs. They have become the first company to automate drug design, surpassing the efforts of humans. Their AI-powered systems constantly learn from extensive databases of discovery information and also gain knowledge from experienced drug researchers. With access to more information than any individual researcher could gather, their systems create millions of new compounds tailored to specific projects and evaluate each compound for its predicted effectiveness, selectivity, ADME, and other important factors. The most promising compounds are then selected for synthesis and testing. With the generation of new experimental data, the results are analyzed and the next round of design begins. This rapid cycle of designing, making, and testing ensures remarkable progress towards the desired project objectives. Exscientia has already achieved remarkable productivity, delivering potential drug candidates in a fraction of the time compared to traditional methods.

How much funding has Exscientia raised?

Exscientia has raised $102M across 2 rounds on record. The most recent is an undisclosed round of $2.3M announced in Dec 2023.

When did Exscientia last raise funding?

Exscientia's most recent funding round on record is an undisclosed round of $2.3M, announced in Dec 2023.

Who is the CEO of Exscientia?

Andrew Hopkins is listed as CEO at Exscientia.

Where is Exscientia headquartered?

Exscientia is based in Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom.

How many employees does Exscientia have?

Exscientia is in the 251-500 employee band.

How does Exscientia's funding compare to other Artificial Intelligence startups?

Exscientia's latest round of $2.3M is below the $5.5M median round size for Artificial Intelligence companies on FundedIQ across 7,233 tracked companies over the last two years.

About FundedIQ's Exscientia Funding Data

FundedIQ tracks announced funding rounds and refreshes this profile every week. Round dates, stages and amounts are normalised to a single format, converted to US dollars, and de-duplicated: two records of the same round announced days apart are merged, and two genuinely different rounds are kept apart on the amounts they disclose. Amounts shown are the disclosed figures only — a round announced without a number is listed and excluded from the total rather than estimated.

Employee counts are reported bands, not exact headcounts. Founder and executive names carry the job title on record. Anything we do not hold for Exscientia is left off this page rather than filled in.

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