Convoke, a South San Francisco, CA-based AI-native operating system for biopharma, has raised $8.6M in seed funding.
Investors
The round was led by Kleiner Perkins and Dimension Capital, with participation from ACME, Comma Capital, Liquid2, Not Boring Capital, Audacious, Lux Capital, and angel investors including Qasar Younis and Erik Torenberg.
Kleiner Perkins is a venture capital firm founded in 1972 and based in Menlo Park, California. The firm invests in early-stage, incubation, and growth companies across technology, life sciences, and green tech.
Dimension Capital is a venture capital firm that invests at the intersection of technology and life sciences. Founded in 2022, it backs startups leveraging AI, software, and biotech innovations to transform drug discovery, regenerative medicine, lab automation, and other areas of human health and biology. Its goal is to accelerate breakthroughs by combining computing power with biological science.
Convoke Use of Funds
The funding will support platform development and expansion, enabling biopharma teams to automate workflows and reduce the time to market for new drugs.
About Convoke
Founded by Alex Telford, Maged Ahmed, and Vikas Velagapudi, Convoke is an AI-native platform designed to streamline biopharma knowledge work. It offers software tools that unify internal and external data, codify decision logic, and generate critical deliverables across the drug lifecycle, helping teams move from idea to market faster. The platform automates repetitive tasks, generates essential outputs, and enables teams to make faster, data-driven decisions. Serving customers from small biotech firms to top 20 pharma companies, Convoke powers areas such as competitive intelligence, medical affairs, and portfolio strategy.
Funding Details
Company: Convoke
Raised: $8.6M
Round: Seed
Funding Date: August 2025
Lead Investors: Kleiner Perkins, Dimension Capital
Additional Investors: ACME, Comma Capital, Liquid2, Not Boring Capital, Audacious, Lux Capital, Qasar Younis, Erik Torenberg, and other angel investors
Company Website: https://www.convoke.bio/
Software Category: AI Biopharma / Knowledge Automation
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