Elicit
Elicit, founded in 2022 in California, USA, uses language models to automate scientific research, enabling researchers to focus more on the research itself.
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Elicit, founded in 2022 in California, USA, uses language models to automate scientific research, enabling researchers to focus more on the research itself. More than 200,000 researchers use Elicit each month, including top research labs at Harvard, MIT, and Stanford, as well as leading companies such as Genentech, Novartis, and OpenAI.
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- 2023-10Seed$9M
Investors · Mythos Ventures, Julian, Basis Set Ventures, Illusian, Fifty YearsSource · SVTR Weekly #021
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