# Sapient Intelligence Pte.

Startup profile on Capital Atlas: https://capitalatlas.ai/startups/sapient-intelligence-pte

- Industry: Internet
- Headquarters: Beijing, China
- Website: www.sapient.inc/
- Total disclosed funding: $22M
- Latest round: Seed (Dec 10, 2024)
- Investors on record: 3

## About

Based in Beijing, China, and founded in 2024, Sapient Intelligence is an intelligent model developer that focuses on the development of new model architectures.  The founder, Guan Wang, graduated from Tsinghua University. The company's core team consists of researchers from Deepmind, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic. In December 2024, Sapient Intelligence raised USD 22 million in seed funding from new investors JAFCO Group and Sumitomo Corporation, with participation from returning investor Vertex Ventures. Other unspecified investors also participated in the round. The seed funding values Sapient Intelligence at 200 million post-money.

The company's main product is a non-autoregressive model with multi-step computation, MEMORY, and tree search capabilities. The model is dedicated to the reasoning capabilities of AI by mimicking the human brain.

The company generates revenue by developing an AI Thinking Reasoning Model that enables AI's reasoning ability by mimicking the human brain.

The company will use the seed funding for arithmetic expenditure and staff recruitment.

## Funding rounds

- Seed, Dec 10, 2024, $22M — JAFCO Group, Sumitomo Corporation, Vertex Ventures
- Seed, Sep 20, 2024 — Vertex Ventures

## Investors

- Vertex Ventures (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/vertex-ventures) — Seed
- JAFCO Group (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/jafco-group) — Seed
- Sumitomo Corporation — Seed