Cradle
Dutch AI company using generative AI for protein design and drug discovery.
Amsterdam, NetherlandsProduct
Selected offerings — the AI products recorded here, not the vendor's full catalogue.
-
Cradle Platform
Designs and optimises protein sequences with machine-learning models trained on a customer's own lab results.
Similar products 9
No sourced competitor yet: no filing, vendor document or measured-market report read so far names a rival for this company, so none is asserted. The companies below are the closest by what their products do.
Chai DiscoveryPrivate · $3.8BCradle and Chai Discovery platform do comparable work on drug discovery; both also serve buyers who need to find drug candidates faster; similar scale (private).1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareIL
Isomorphic LabsPrivate · $2.7B raisedCradle and Drug Design Engine do comparable work on drug discovery; both also serve buyers who need to find drug candidates faster; similar scale (private).1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareRP
Recursion PharmaceuticalsPublic · $1.9BCradle and Recursion OS do comparable work on drug discovery; both also serve buyers who need to find drug candidates faster; similar scale (public).1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareIM
Insilico MedicinePublic · $4.3BCradle and Pharma.AI do comparable work on drug discovery; both also serve buyers who need to find drug candidates faster; similar scale (public).1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareO
OwkinPrivate · $304.1M raisedCradle and BiomarkerPlus do comparable work on drug discovery; ships AI agent and data service rather than the same layer.1 of 1 capabilityDifferent layerSame scale bandCompareTA
Tempus AIPublic · $12.4BCradle and Tempus Lens do comparable work on drug discovery; similar scale (public); ships agent platform and application rather than the same layer.1 of 1 capabilityDifferent layerCompareGD
Google DeepMindAcquiredCradle and AlphaFold Server do comparable work on drug discovery; Google DeepMind is acquired, with no independent scale; ships application rather than the same layer.1 of 1 capabilityDifferent layerCompareN
NVIDIAPublic · $5.1TCradle and NVIDIA BioNeMo do comparable work on drug discovery; similar scale (public).1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareHC
Huawei CloudPrivateCradle and EIHealth do comparable work on drug discovery; Huawei Cloud's scale not recorded.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareClosest alternatives are pairs a vendor page itself compares. Similar products are matched from what each product does; nothing in that group is asserted as a rivalry.
Sources
- Total funding
-
"This brings our total funding to over $100 million." Cradle's own Series B post; the sum of disclosed rounds (~$5.5M seed + $24M A + $73M B ≈ $102.4M) matches.
- Employees
-
Silicon Canals: "With 70 employees spanning more than 10 nationalities across Amsterdam and Zurich." Cradle's own 2025-12-16 post separately says headcount 'doubled across all departments' in 2025, consistent with the rise from the prior Forbes figure.
- Founded
-
Infobox: "Founded May 2021; 5 years ago (2021-05)".
Something wrong here? Send a correction — quote this company id: cradle.