Ndea

Ndea

Building AGI that can innovate.

San Francisco, CA, USA
15 employees
AI
Seed · $43M

About Ndea

Ndea is building frontier AI systems that blend intuitive pattern recognition and formal reasoning into a unified architecture.

AI for Scientific Advancement

Unlike all life before us, humanity's ascent is a story of ingenuity, not just biological evolution. Our progress has been driven by the curiosity to acquire knowledge, the ability to pass it on, and an intrinsic drive to innovate. We build technology which gives us leverage beyond our biology.

We stand at the top of a knowledge and technology colossus that we collectively created over the past ten thousand generations. Scientific progress has helped us overcome burdens that long defined human life — famines, plagues, and widespread illiteracy. Science will continue to redefine the boundaries of the human condition.

Today, the acceleration of scientific progress hinges on one factor: AI capable of independent invention and discovery. This capacity is the gateway to advancements beyond our wildest imagination.

A New Research Lab

We're starting Ndea — an AI research and science lab. The name - like 'idea' with an 'n' - is inspired by the Greek concepts ennoia (intuitive understanding) and dianoia (logical reasoning), capturing our first goal to merge deep learning with program synthesis.

Ndea is entirely focused on developing and operationalizing AGI to realize unprecedented scientific progress in our lifetime for the benefit of all current and future generations.

Building AGI alone is a monumental undertaking, but our mission is even bigger. We're creating a factory for rapid scientific advancement — a factory capable of inventing and commercializing N ideas.

From our vantage point today, we see many 'known' frontiers like self-driving vehicles, drug discovery, sustainable energy, robotics, and space exploration. While AGI will benefit all of these, the most exciting adventure lies in the 'unknown'. AGI promises discoveries and progress we cannot imagine today.

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Company details

Team Size15
LocationSan Francisco, CA, USA
IndustryAI

Funding

Total raised

$43M

Last stage

Seed

Investors

Y Combinator
CCoatue Management
FFactorial Capital
Quiet Capital

Founders

Mike Knoop

Mike Knoop

https://mikeknoop.com

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François Chollet

François Chollet

Creator of Keras, a widely-used Python deep learning library. AI researcher focused on developing AGI through program synthesis and novel architectural approaches.

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What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.