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Apoha Raises $36 Million Series A to Commercialize 'Liquid Intelligence' for Materials Discovery

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Summary

Apoha exited stealth on June 3 with a $36 million Series A, revealing a materials discovery platform built around what the company calls liquid intelligence—a continuous-learning architecture that updates molecular property predictions in real time as new experimental data arrives rather than requiring full retraining cycles. Its WaveForm model has already identified three novel battery electrolyte candidates now in partner testing. Apoha is targeting pharmaceutical and advanced materials markets where static ML models become stale between retraining cycles.