MetaNovas has secured Series A+ and A++ funding from Fuhua Capital, Hillhouse Capital, and Kangaroo...
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The article reports a funding round for a vertical-specific agentic system (MetaNovas) that applies the agentic pattern to materials science, though it does not meet the $500M threshold for cross.§D.
MetaNovas has secured Series A+ and A++ funding from Fuhua Capital, Hillhouse Capital, and Kangaroo Mother Group, deploying an army of AI agents that reduced new material development from 3-5 years to just 12 months with a 60%+ first-time success rate. Their platform covers a chemical space exceeding 10^60 and achieved validation with only 42 peptide tests versus traditional thousands, demonstrating how agentic AI transforms R&D into an autonomous "intelligent organization" spanning literature mining through commercialization. With the global agentic AI market projected to surge from $7.29B to over $139B by 2034 and materials science specifically reaching $12.90B by 2035, MetaNovas exemplifies the shift from AI as a tool to AI as a complete research workforce - a model that will democratize advanced materials discovery across consumer health, medical devices, and functional ingredients.
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