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Ndea

Deep-learning-guided program synthesis.

HQ
San Francisco
Founded
Jan 2025
Web
ndea.com
Camps
Other substrates

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What it does

François Chollet and Mike Knoop started Ndea in January 2025 around deep-learning-guided program synthesis: use a neural net to guess candidate programs, then search and verify. It has raised about $43M from Y Combinator, Coatue and others.

Camp membership over time

  1. Jan 2025 – now
    Program search and other substrates
    Deep-learning-guided program synthesis; ~$43M raised.
    Sources AI researcher François Chollet founds a new AI lab focused on AGI TechCrunch 2025-01-15

Capital

AmountKindValuationDateInvestorsSource
$44M reporteddisclosed funding to date May 2026 Y Combinator, Coatue, Factorial Capital, Quiet Capital Cumulative disclosed; round structure not public. StartupHub

People

François CholletFrançois CholletCo-founder
MKMike KnoopCo-founder

General sources

AI researcher François Chollet founds a new AI lab focused on AGI TechCrunch 2025-01-15