Latch A
RL environment company · Science
- Domains
- Science
- On X
- @latchbio ↗
- Funding
- $33M raised · rounds and investors
- Tier
- A why
- Snapshot

What Latch does
Latch builds verifiable benchmarks for evaluating AI agents on biology and drug-discovery tasks, alongside a data and compute platform for biotech R&D.
- Sells
- RL environments
- Leads with
- Health and bio
- Based in
- San Francisco, USA
- Team
- 51-100
- Website
- latch.bio ↗
What Latch sells
Read from Latch's own website, checked October 11, 2026: the line that puts it in each category.
RL environments
“We introduce TxBench-Oligonucleotide Discovery, a verifiable benchmark of 113 evaluations that tests whether AI agents, working with no internet access”
latch.bio ↗
Also
“Hundreds of biotechs use Latch to make data analysis faster, cheaper, more accessible, and instantly accelerate their R&D milestones.”
latch.bio/product ↗
Domains Latch covers
Health and bio leads with
“Researching and ImprovingAI Agents for Biology”
latch.bio ↗“BioSecBench-Surveillance: A Verifiable Benchmark for AI Agents in Pathogen Genomic Surveillance”
latch.bio ↗
Latch competitors and alternatives
The companies that sell the most of the same things in the same domains, and what they share with Latch.
- Tacit Labs Also sells evals · also in health and bio
- Pareto also in health and bio
- ReasonCore Also sells evals · also in health and bio and security
- Scale AI Also sells enterprise AI services and evals · also in health and bio
- Symbal Also sells evals and enterprise AI services · also in health and bio
Tier A
Scaling: 51 to 250 people, or $20M+ raised.
How much stands behind a tier: usage, who backs it, a confirmed line from its own site or paper, and a clear read on X. High with three of the four, medium with two, low otherwise.
- team 51-100
- raised $33M
- investors: Coatue, Lux Capital, George Church
- in curated RL directories (3 pts)
How we got to tier A
- Adoption: team 51-100; raised $33M; investors: Coatue, Lux Capital, George Church. Tier A.
- On X: unclear, none buzz No move.
- In curated RL directories: 3 points, a floor of none.
- Confirmed: a line from its own site or paper places it.
A clear view on X moves a tier one step up or down; most entries don't move. How tiers work.
Latch funding
- Raised
- $33Mstated total
- Latest round
- Series A $28M2022-06 · led by Coatue, Lux Capital
Backed byCoatueLux Capital
Rounds
- Series A · $28M · 2022-06 · led by Coatue, Lux Capital
We just raised a $28 million Series A financing round led by Coatue and Lux Capital to build the AWS x GitHub for biocomputing.
- Read: “We just raised a $28 million Series A financing round led by Coatue and Lux Capital to build the AWS x GitHub for biocomputing.”
- Found word for word on its own site: blog.latch.bio/p/announcing-our-series-a-building
- The quote states the amount and who led it
- No other page or directory names it yet
- Seed · $5M · 2021-10
Usage of our platform has grown since our $5M seed from Lux in October.
- Read: “Usage of our platform has grown since our $5M seed from Lux in October.”
- Found word for word on its own site: blog.latch.bio/p/announcing-our-series-a-building
- The quote states the amount; no lead is named in it
- No other page or directory names it yet
Funds 2
- Coatue led a round
Named in the round quoted above.
- Lux Capital led a round
Named in the round quoted above.
Angels 2
- George Church
$33m in funding from Investors Coatue, Lux Capital, Laura Deming, George Church.
- Read: “$33m in funding from Investors Coatue, Lux Capital, Laura Deming, George Church.”
- Found word for word on its own site: latch.bio/solutions/ngs-solutions-providers
- No other page or directory names it yet
- Laura Deming
$33m in funding from Investors Coatue, Lux Capital, Laura Deming, George Church.
- Read: “$33m in funding from Investors Coatue, Lux Capital, Laura Deming, George Church.”
- Found word for word on its own site: latch.bio/solutions/ngs-solutions-providers
- No other page or directory names it yet
Every figure is quoted from its own site, its accelerator or a funding announcement; a round's amount and lead appear only when its quote states them. Startup databases are never used as evidence. Checked 2026-10-11. How funding is checked.
Where Latch sits
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Next: browse all environments. Entry from the RL Research daily scrape of public sources, 2026-11-05 snapshot.