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Redwood Research

Redwood Research is a nonprofit AI safety and security research organization that studies and mitigates risks from powerful AI systems.

redwoodresearch.org · Berkeley

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StageGrant from Coefficient GivingNovember 2025 · led by Coefficient Giving[1][3]
Raisednot publicly disclosedno source in ledger
Headcount31as of Sep 2026[9]
Valuationnot publicly disclosedno source in ledger
Foundednot publicly disclosedno source in ledger
Money

Grant from Coefficient Giving closed November 2025, led by Coefficient Giving.[1][3]

post-money valuation is not publicly disclosed.

Named investors include Coefficient Giving.[1][3]

People

Buck Shlegeris, Chief Executive Officer[10][11][8][18]

Ryan Greenblatt, Chief Scientist[10][11][8][18]

Signals
Sep 3 2026fundingCoefficient Giving's CEO on Silicon Valley $40 billion philanthropy boom[1][2][3]
Aug 26 2026launchBrief independent investigation of agents' behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident[8][7][5]
Oct 7 2021launchRedwood Research launches website and alignment research explainer[4]
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METR · metr.org · METR is the other organization OpenAI selected alongside Redwood Research to independently assess the Hugging Face hacking incident, and the two co-authored the joint 91-page investigation report.[5][7][8]

Irregular · irregular.ai · TechFundingNews explicitly names Redwood Research as operating in an overlapping AI safety space with Irregular, which raised $80M at a $450M valuation from Sequoia and Redpoint.[6]

Conjecture · conjecture.dev · TechFundingNews names Conjecture alongside Redwood Research as operating in overlapping AI safety spaces with Irregular.[6]

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Redwood Research

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Redwood Research is a nonprofit AI safety and security research organization that studies and mitigates risks from powerful AI systems.

redwoodresearch.org · Berkeley

StageGrant from Coefficient Giving
Raisednot publicly disclosed
Headcount31
Valuationnot publicly disclosed
Foundednot publicly disclosed
CompsMETR +2