The VETTDD 50 · UK startups · 2026
Simon Kohl
Founder and CEO, Latent Labs · latentlabs.com ↗
An AlphaFold 2 veteran left DeepMind to design proteins rather than predict them. His London company now sells an AI agent that runs antibody design campaigns from a written prompt
- raised on leaving stealth, February 2025
- $50m
- target-level success rate reported for Latent-Y
- 67%
- faster design campaigns in company user studies
- 56x
- free designs a day for approved researchers
- 250