InherentLabs

Three of the four co-founders are ex-DeepMind engineers — that's already uncommon enough to pause on — and Index Ventures just handed them a $50M seed check, which is the kind of baller funding you usually see at Series A, not seed. The tagline "within the experiment" hints they're building something in AI science or research, which feels purposefully vague in that "we're onto something that doesn't have a pitch deck yet" way. If you're tracking where DeepMind alumni go after they leave, this is one of the more ambitious exits — now it's just a matter of what actually ships.