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Ineffable Intelligence

Ineffable Intelligence is a London-based frontier AI lab building a reinforcement learning superlearner that discovers knowledge from its own experience rather than human data.

ineffable.ai · London

CALL NO.CS·INEFFABLE·26
StageSeedApril 2026 · led by Sequoia Capital[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][10]
Raised$1.1Bdisclosed rounds[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][10]
Headcount12as of Jun 2026[8]
Valuationnot publicly disclosedno source in ledger
Founded2025[1][7]
Money

Raised $1.1B across disclosed rounds.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][10]

Seed closed April 2026, led by Sequoia Capital.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][10]

post-money valuation is not publicly disclosed.

Named investors include Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, NVIDIA, DST Global, Index Ventures, Google, Flying Fish Ventures, EQT Ventures, Evantic Capital, Wellcome Trust, BOND Capital, British Business Bank, UK Sovereign AI Fund.[1][4][6][10]

People

David Silver, CEO and Founder[1][6][11][15]

Alexandre Laterre, Co-Founder[1][6][11][15]

Lasse Espeholt, CTO[8][15]

Junhyuk Oh, Chief Research Officer[8][15]

Chris Apps, Chief Research Accelerator[8][15]

Wojciech Marian Czarnecki, Chief Scientific Officer[8][15]

Signals
May 11 2026newsNVIDIA and Ineffable Intelligence Partner on Reinforcement Learning Infrastructure company claim, not independently confirmed[8]
Apr 27 2026fundingIneffable Intelligence launches with record-breaking $1.1B Seed round[4][1][3]
Apr 27 2026fundingSequoia and Nvidia Back Ex-DeepMind Researcher at $5.1 Billion Value[2]
Apr 27 2026fundingBritish Business Bank and Sovereign AI invest into AI superintelligence company Ineffable Intelligence[10]
Apr 27 2026launchIneffable Intelligence launches with David Silver company claim, not independently confirmed[8]
Comps

Safe Superintelligence · ssi.inc · Same buyer of capital (frontier AI investors) and same job to be done: funding a pre-product superintelligence research lab on founder credibility. Named in the same market context by TNW.[7]

Risk

The customer proof is company-sourced only. No independent source in this ledger confirms it.[8]

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Ineffable Intelligence

CALL NO.CS·INEFFABLE·26

Ineffable Intelligence is a London-based frontier AI lab building a reinforcement learning superlearner that discovers knowledge from its own experience rather than human data.

ineffable.ai · London

StageSeed
Raised$1.1B
Headcount12
Valuationnot publicly disclosed
Founded2025
CompsSafe Superintelligence

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