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▶ 0:00 · $CUSP-AI · CuspAI: A Search Engine for Materials That Don’t Exist Yet
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Kleiner Perkins

CuspAI: A Search Engine for Materials That Don’t Exist Yet

2026-07-20 · 2 company · 4 thematic
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chad

Co-founder of Cusp AI who grew up in a Welsh farming village and was the first in his family to attend university; previously worked in quantum computing before partnering with Max Welling to build an AI-driven materials discovery platform.

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“At Cusp, we've built what can be described as a search engine for materials. For many years we've relied on serendipity and trial and error to discover new materials. The chemical space is extremely large—larger than all possible grains of…”
—chad
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