About Undermind
At Undermind, we're building a search engine that can handle extremely complex questions. It’s geared at experts, like research scientists and doctors, who need to find very specific resources to solve high-stakes problems.
We’ve rebuilt search from the ground up to address this. Our new approach employs high-quality LLMs to adaptively explore a database, mimicking how a human researcher carefully discovers information. This approach dramatically outperforms (by 10-50x) traditional keyword search and other modern AI-based retrieval methods.
Our first target users are the 50 million researchers searching for scientific literature on PubMed and Google Scholar every month. We’ve have paying users across fields like medicine, ML, biotech, finance, and more.
Company details
Funding
Total raised
$500K
Last stage
Pre-seed
Investors
Founders
Tom Hartke
Tom is the co-founder and CTO at Undermind. He studied physics at Princeton, then did his PhD in quantum physics at MIT. His thesis was recognized by the American Physical Society as one of the top 4 theses in the field of atomic physics in 2022, and he has published 10 papers in the field, including two in Nature and Science. Tom has deep expertise in building and deploying complex systems.
Joshua Ramette
Co-founder and CEO of Undermind. PhD from MIT in quantum computing architecture design. Research experience in gravitational-wave astrophysics (LIGO), particle physics (CERN), atomic physics, and quantum information science.
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Thomas Hartke
Co-founder and CTO of Undermind. Studied physics at Princeton, then completed PhD in quantum physics at MIT. His thesis was recognized by the American Physical Society as one of the top 4 theses in atomic physics in 2022.
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