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Why Ensemble is backing Potato on their mission to deploy AI scientists 4/15/2025 • Ensemble VC Potato collaborates with leading academic institutions and biotech companies to lower the cost of discovery and expand access to underexplored scientific questions, from rare diseases to materials chemistry. Beyond specific use cases, however, Potato plans to amplify scientific headcount and push a new paradigm of discovery by bringing agentic scientists into the engine room of innovation.

Draper Associates leads $4.5M investment in startup Potato to drive AI-driven ‘runaway knowledge production’ 4/15/2025 • R&D World When venture capitalist Tim Draper backs a startup, it usually hints that something potentially transformative is brewing. His latest move: a $4.5 million investment in Potato, a company developing autonomous AI scientists to accelerate research through agent-driven workflows. Potato’s ambitious goal is shifting scientific discovery from painstakingly slow lab work toward what Potato CEO Nick Edwards, Ph.D., envisions as “runaway knowledge production.”

Seattle startup Potato lands $4.5M to automate science experiments using AI assistants and robots 4/15/2025 • GeekWire With $4.5 million in fresh funding, Seattle-area startup Potato is sprouting big plans to disrupt scientific research with a fully automated experimental process.

Potato, an Autonomous Science Agent, Closes $4.5M Seed Round 4/15/2025 Led by Draper Associates, funds will accelerate Potato's effort to develop autonomous AI scientists for biotech research.

Potato AI Seeks to Streamline Scientific Research Process 11/11/2024 • San Diego Business Journal In addition to the Wiley partnership, scientists at major research universities such as California Institute of Technology, Harvard University, UC San Diego and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have already started to use Potato AI's research analysis tools.

Wiley backs Potato's vision to win over skeptical scientists with trustable AI research assistant 10/28/2024 • R&D World Potato AI's new partnership with Wiley, one of the world's largest scientific publishers, provides access to a crucial resource: peer-reviewed scientific content. By implementing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Potato AI can ground its AI responses in verified scientific literature.

Potato's AI research assistant digs through publications for science experiment inspiration 10/28/2024 • GeekWire Potato's AI research assistant digs through publications for science experiment inspiration

Wiley Creates AI Partnership Program 10/27/2024 • Publishers Weekly Wiley has introduced Wiley AI Partnerships, described as "a co-innovation program. [Which] aims to develop new AI applications, assistants, and agents in partnership with innovative companies, to empower researchers and practitioners and help drive the pace, efficiency and accuracy of scientific discovery."

Wiley launches artificial intelligence programme 'to shape AI rather than be shaped by it' 10/21/2024 • The Bookseller Academic publisher Wiley is starting an artificial intelligence (AI) partnership programme, in a bid to “shape the AI world and AI future, as opposed to being shaped by it”. [...] Wiley's first partner is Potato, an AI research assistant “powered by peer-reviewed literature that enables high-quality science”. The partnership will mean Wiley and Potato work together “to advance the application”.