Fu­eled with a fresh half-bil­lion dol­lars as AI in­vest­ments boom, Ex­sci­en­tia is hit­ting the gas on drug de­vel­op­ment

Can AI rev­o­lu­tion­ize the way new drugs are found and de­vel­oped? For Ex­sci­en­tia, that’s now the half-bil­lion-dol­lar ques­tion.

It hasn’t been two months since Ex­sci­en­tia ex­pand­ed its Se­ries C round, but the decade-old ma­chine learn­ing out­fit is al­ready back at the ven­ture well, this time pulling in up to $525 mil­lion for its AI plat­form and pipeline.

The raise in­cludes a $252 Se­ries D round, plus a $300 mil­lion eq­ui­ty in­vest­ment by Soft­Bank that can be drawn at the com­pa­ny’s dis­cre­tion. The Soft­Bank Vi­sion Fund 2 led the Se­ries D, with a hand from No­vo Hold­ings, Black­Rock, Mubadala In­vest­ment, Far­al­lon Cap­i­tal, Cas­din Cap­i­tal, GT Health­care Cap­i­tal, Mar­shall Wace, Piv­otal bioVen­ture Part­ners, Lau­ri­on Cap­i­tal, Hongk­ou and Bris­tol-My­ers Squibb.

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