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Best Research Assistants AI Tools

26 tools compared · 2026

26 research assistants startups tracked, with the largest concentration in US. Total tracked funding: $2.3B.

Tracked
26
Total Raised
$2.3B
Countries
4
Active Deals
0

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Funding by year — Research Assistants

2025 → 2026
$485M
’25
$1.3B
’26

Top countries

By startup count

Stage breakdown

Latest round type
  • Seed 14
  • Series A 6
  • Series C 1
  • Pre-seed 1

Top investors backing Research Assistants

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Recent rounds in Research Assistants

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Date Startup Round Amount
Jun 2026 Apoha Series A $36M
Mar 2026 AMI Labs Seed $1.0B
Mar 2026 Axiom Math Series A $200M
Nov 2025 Harmonic Series C $120M
Sep 2025 Periodic Labs Seed $300M
Feb 2025 Elicit Series A $22M
Jan 2025 Ndea Seed $43M

All Research Assistants startups

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AMI Labs

FR est. 2025

Yann LeCun's lab building foundational world models for real-world AI

Raised
$1.0B
Stage
Seed
88

Harmonic

US est. 2023

Mathematical superintelligence with hallucination-free, verified reasoning

Raised
$295M
Stage
S-C
80

Periodic Labs

US est. 2025

Creating AI scientists and autonomous laboratories to accelerate scientific discovery, starting with physical sciences.

Raised
$300M
Stage
Seed
76

Ndea

US est. 2025

Frontier AI lab building AGI through deep learning-guided program synthesis.

Raised
$43M
Stage
Seed
75

Samaya AI

US est. 2022

Expert AI agents that automate research for investment professionals

Raised
$43.5M
Stage
S-A
72

Edison Scientific

US est. 2025

AI scientist that compresses months of research into a single day

Raised
$70M
Stage
Seed
71

Axiom Math

US est. 2025

AI mathematician that generates and proves new mathematical knowledge

Raised
$264M
Stage
S-A
70

Radical AI

US est. 2023

Autonomous materials-science labs to discover new materials 50x faster

Raised
$55M
Stage
Seed
68

Apoha

GB est. 2023

AI for molecular behavior — the next data class after sequence and structure

Raised
$36M
Stage
S-A
67

Aiera

US est. 2018

AI platform that unlocks financial research

Raised
$48M
Stage
S-A
66

Axiomatic AI

US est. 2023

Intelligence infrastructure for verified science and engineering

Raised
$25M
Stage
Seed
66

Midpage

est. 2023
Raised
$6.2M
Stage
Seed
65

Autoscience

US est. 2024

Automating AI research with autonomous AI scientists

Raised
$14M
Stage
Seed
64

Grasp

SE est. 2020

Multi-agent AI analyst for finance and consulting workflows

Raised
$9M
Stage
S-A
62

Surf

US est. 2025

AI research model purpose-built for crypto and digital-asset intelligence

Raised
$15M
Stage
Seed
62

PatSnap

The AI-native platform for global innovation, providing IP and R&D intelligence.

60

Letta

US

Memory-first agents that learn and improve from experience with natural language.

60

Anara

An AI workspace for scientists, students, and research teams to search, organize, write, and cite with academic rigor.

60

finbar

GB est. 2023

The AI investment analyst for hedge funds

Raised
$2M
Stage
Pre-S
58

Trata

est. 2025
Raised
$500K
Stage
Seed
58

Userology

AI UX Research agent for busy product teams to get deep user insights in hours, not weeks.

57

Cubby

Raised
$1.4M
Stage
Seed
56

Refortifai

US est. 2026

Reasoning models and RL environments for electronic design automation and chip design workflows.

Raised
$500K
Stage
Seed
55

matforge

US est. 2026

AI scientists that discover next-generation semiconductor materials in months instead of a decade.

Raised
$500K
Stage
Seed
55