The VETTDD 50 · UK startups · 2026
Chad Edwards
Co-founder and CEO, CuspAI · cusp.ai ↗
CuspAI uses AI to search for materials that don’t exist yet, for chips, batteries and carbon capture. In two years its chief executive has raised $550m and signed up more than 45 industrial partners
- Series B, July 2026
- $450m
- valuation at the Series B
- $2.6bn
- partners in its AI Materials Foundry
- 45+
- incorporated in Cambridge
- Mar 2024