UK's Sovereign AI Fund and Stripe's Collison Back Potential Sciences Eight-Figure Seed for Drug Discovery

Potential Sciences, a London quantum-chemistry startup founded by ex-Graphcore researcher Hatem Helal, raised an undisclosed eight-figure seed led by the UK's Sovereign AI Fund with Stripe CEO Patrick Collison joining as angel. The deal pairs cash with compute capacity on UK AIRR supercomputers. The company says its physics-grounded AI slashes molecular design calculation costs by roughly 100x versus traditional quantum chemistry.