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Legal name

InstaDeep Ltd (site copyright line)

Founded

April 2014

Founders

Karim Beguir — co-founder and CEO; Zohra Slim — co-founder

Chief executive

Karim Beguir — from 2014

Other leaders

Isabelle Levard — Chief Financial and Operations Officer (Paris); Amine Kerkeni — Head of Engineering

Hq

London (England: London) per tech.eu "London-based"; other_offices: Paris, Berlin, Tunis, Kigali, Cape Town, New York, San Francisco (Outside the UK)

What it does

InstaDeep builds AI for biology and industry (genome language models, protein and cancer models, reinforcement learning for logistics and chip design). It has been owned by BioNTech since 2023 and supplies AI to BioNTech's drug research.

Research focus

"GPU-accelerated computing, deep learning and reinforcement learning" applied to biology, logistics, electronic design and energy.

Models and products

Nucleotide Transformer v3 (NTv3) — genome model — 18 Feb 2026; MOJO — multimodal cancer classification model — 8 Jul 2026; SegmentNT — genome annotation — 29 Oct 2025; Oryx — multi-agent reinforcement learning model — 11 Nov 2025; InstaNovo-P — peptide sequencing for phosphoproteomics — Jul 2026; DeepChain, DeepPCB, DeepPack, AIchor — products — not stated

Customers or partners named

BioNTech — owner; AI Day at the Science Museum, London — 13 Oct 2025 — https://instadeep.com/news/; Wilo Group — strategic partnership on water technology and AI — 4 Mar 2026 — https://instadeep.com/news/

Selected papers

MOJO — ICML 2026 — Jul 2026 — https://instadeep.com/; InstaNovo-P — Nature Communications — 2026 — https://instadeep.com/; SegmentNT — Nature Methods — 2025 — https://instadeep.com/; Protein sequence modelling with Bayesian flow networks — Nature Communications — 2025 — https://instadeep.com/; InstaNexus — Molecular & Cellular Proteomics — Mar 2026 — https://instadeep.com/

Rounds found

10–11 Jan 2023 — acquisition by BioNTech — up to £562m (£362m cash and shares plus up to c. £200m milestones) — BioNTech (already DEAL-LB-051 / DEAL-PE-023)

Status now

Operating as BioNTech's AI subsidiary; released NTv3 (February 2026) and MOJO (July 2026).

Labs Round 8 deep profile (31 Oct 2026), as the researchers wrote it; confidence: verified (ownership: company plus trade); models one source.

Sources

1. instadeep.com/about-us/
2. tech.eu/2023/01/10/biontech-to-acquire-instadeep
3. instadeep.com/news/