A new startup from one of the key scientists at Google DeepMind exits stealth today with $50 million in funding.

Isomorphic Labs, a spin-off from DeepMind, is applying AI-first principles to drug discovery rather than just protein structure prediction. While its roots lie in AlphaFold, the company’s focus extends beyond structure determination – modeling how molecules interact to accelerate drug design.

Latent Labs is led by CEO Simon Kohl, who previously worked at Google parent Alphabet Inc.’s DeepMind machine learning lab. He was part of the team that developed DeepMind’s groundbreaking AlphaFold2 neural network.