A startup has just raised $4 million to help scientists spend more time discovering breakthroughs and less time wrestling with outdated IT infrastructure.
Camber has created a platform for scientific researchers to run simulations, analyze massive datasets, and train AI models. It runs in the cloud, which means research institutions can access powerful graphics processing units, or GPUs, without operating their own costly or outdated compute infrastructure.
Founded by Aristotle Socrates, a former theoretical astrophysicist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, Camber offers low- and no-code “science engines” that it says can be used without specialized cloud expertise.”Imagine you’re a graduate student at Imperial College or Cambridge, spending two years learning how to use outdated on-premises clusters,” Socrates told Business Insider, referring to networking hardware owned and operated by an organization. “We make running these scientific workloads as easy as flipping a switch.”
Camber says more than 200 researchers across 30 institutions use its platform for completing tasks in fields such as genomics research, astrophysics simulations, and high-performance computing training.
“Scientists everywhere should have the same opportunities as those at Stanford or MIT,” Socrates said. “Camber exists to democratize scientific computing.”
The San Francisco-based startup’s $4 million seed round was led by Base10 Partners. It follows a previous $1.5 million pre-seed round from PearVC.
With its new funding, the startup plans to expand its technical and product teams, build global research partnerships, and roll out new initiatives, including international scholarships for early-career researchers.
“That’s the goal: to let researchers be limited by their scientific ability, not by computing power,” Socrates said.
Check out the pitch deck Camber used to raise $4 million.
The post This startup says computing limits shouldn’t slow down science. See the pitch deck it used to raise $4 million. appeared first on Business Insider.
