Ingenix
Category: AI in Biotech / Drug Discovery
Warsaw-based AI-biology company building the Biological Reasoning Engine, which uses Modality Fusion to reason across biological data modalities and scales for translational and clinical R&D decisions. Ingenix was founded in 2023. The company is led by Piotr Surma. Based in Warsaw, Poland. Team size: 11-50. Total funding raised: $24.7M. Latest round: Seed. Key investors include Sofinnova Partners, Inovo VC, OTB VC, IFC.
- Founded
- 2023
- Headquarters
- Warsaw, Poland
- Team size
- 11-50
- Total funding
- $24.7M
Value proposition
An AI reasoning engine that fuses best-in-class specialist models across biological modalities and scales and reasons over their representations directly. Every output comes with a reasoning trace covering mechanism, evidence and caveats, to de-risk drug development decisions.
Products and solutions
Biological Reasoning Engine (built on Modality Fusion), Thalamus Reasoning (9B-parameter model), Thalamus Decision (open-source version released 9 Nov 2026), Qualified Access Program (launched June 2026), a 95B-parameter model is in development.
Unique value
Modality Fusion: an architecture that integrates specialist models across modalities and biological scales, rather than training one giant model. Thalamus Reasoning reportedly encodes omics data as compact vectors (about 4 tokens per profile).
Target customer
Pharma and biotech R&D teams with translational and clinical questions (via the Qualified Access Program); academic and commercial researchers (via the open-source Thalamus Decision model).
Industries served
Pharma, biotech, drug discovery and development, oncology, cellular aging research
Technology advantage
Founding team from Applica (acquired by Snowflake) with multimodal LLM expertise, plus pharma scientists with experience from discovery through Phase II. Company-reported LongevityBench results: rank 1 of 29 models, mean rank 1.42, with no benchmark data used in training. These results have not been independently verified.
How they differentiate
Fuses many specialist models and reasons across modalities with explainable traces, rather than scaling a single foundation model. Small focused team with a 9B model claiming to beat frontier LLMs on a domain benchmark.
Main competitors
Insilico Medicine, Recursion, Inceptive
Major milestones
2023: founded by Piotr Surma and Adam Dancewicz, Apr 2025: €9M seed, Jun 2026: €13M seed extension led by Sofinnova and launch of the Qualified Access Program, 9 Nov 2026: Thalamus Reasoning claimed first place on LongevityBench and Thalamus Decision open-sourced.
Growth metrics
About 42 employees as of Sep 2026 (Tracxn)
Market positioning
Early-stage European TechBio company positioned as the reasoning layer for translational and clinical R&D decisions, with an open-source release to build trust.
Geographic focus
Global; pharma and biotech partners in Europe and beyond
About Piotr Surma
Co-founder and former CEO of Applica (document-understanding AI company acquired by Snowflake in 2022; its TILT model contributed to the GPT-4 benchmark); studied at IMT Atlantique.
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Official website: https://ingenix.ai