companies / efference-ai
Generated UTC · publication cutoff 2026-11-09
Insufficient cited evidence for a two-sentence summary.
verified=2026-09-27 json
| total_raised | 1,000,0001.0M | ○ |
|---|---|---|
| founded | 2025 | |
| hq | San Francisco, USA | |
| industry | unknown | |
| stage | seed |
Efference builds AI agents for early-stage life-sciences and biotech research workflows, automating literature search, experiment design, and ELN entry. It serves bench scientists and research informatics teams at biotech startups. Native integration into Benchling and electronic lab notebooks closes the data round-trip gap horizontal AI assistants leave open.
No cited completed company acquisition recorded.
Dated disclosures. Customer relationships and classifications are historical; ARR is separate from revenue.
No cited disclosure recorded: named customer, disclosed revenue, ARR, count, B2B / B2C, sector, go-to-market.
No cited valuation with an explicit basis is recorded.
Historical post-money / actual annual or stated TTM revenue. Same currency; economic valuation date within 90 days of revenue period end, inclusive. No FX, ARR, annualized revenue, estimates or projections. Conflicts and ambiguous ties are withheld.
No qualifying pair recorded.
| date | type | amount | lead | src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-01 | seed | 1,000,0001.0M | null | ○ |
| person | role | src |
|---|---|---|
| Gianluca Bencomo | ceo | YC |
| Gianluca Bencomo | founder | YC |
Amazon CloudFront, Amazon S3, Amazon Web Services
| fact | status | src |
|---|---|---|
| Seed, $1.0M | attributed | ○ |
| existence | sourced | YC |
| description | self-reported | WEB |
| date | fact | change | src |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-24provenance_existence: self-reported → sourced, YC 2026-09-17 | provenance_existence | self-reported → sourced | YC 2026-09-17 |
Records begin 2026-09-24. all_changes