Efference
Last verified 2026-05-20. JSON
The funding figures on this page are attributed, not sourced: a publisher is on record but no document URL is. How we mark provenance.
| Total raised | $1.0Mattributed |
|---|---|
| Latest round | seed, $1.0M, 2025-09-01attributed |
| Founded | 2025 |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, USA |
| Industry | robotics |
| Stage | seed |
| Website | efference.ai |
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.
Funding rounds
| Date | Round | Amount | Lead |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-01 | seed | $1.0M | undisclosed |
Detected tech stack
Amazon CloudFront, Amazon S3, Amazon Web Services
Provenance
| Fact | Status | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Seed, $1.0M | attributed | yc named as publisher. No document URL on file. |
| Total raised $1.0M | attributed | yc named as publisher. No document URL on file. |
| Company existence | sourced | Y Combinator named as publisher. Document, retrieved 2026-09-17. |
| Description | self-reported | efference.ai, read 2026-05-20 |
Change history
| Date | Fact | Change | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-24Existence: self-reported → sourced, Y Combinator, document, retrieved 2026-09-17 | Existence | self-reported → sourced | Y Combinator, document, retrieved 2026-09-17 |
Records begin 2026-09-24. All changes