Elorian
Visual AGI: foundation models for visual understanding and reasoning, an area founder Andrew Dai (ex-Google DeepMind, Gemini) says has seen uneven progress.
- Founders
- Andrew Dai, Yinfei Yang
- Pushes against
- Text-first model development with vision bolted on.
- Now
- Raised before launching a product; the round was reported by 2026-04-12 (Pulse 2.0) and TechCrunch covered it on 2026-07-16. Exact close date not stated. No public model yet.
Key people
- Andrew Dai (founder; ex-Google DeepMind)
- Yinfei Yang (co-founder; ex-Apple machine learning researcher)
Funding
- April 2026
- Amount
- $55M seed
- Valuation
- $300M
- Lead
- Not stated (investors named are Striker Venture Partners, Menlo Ventures, Altimeter, 49 Palms and Nvidia, and angels include Jeff Dean)
Every funding round in the atlas
Sources
- techcrunch.com/2026/07/16/how-a-former-deepmind-researcher-raised-at-a-300m-pre-seed-valua
- pulse2.com/elorian-ai-55-million-raised-for-multimodal-reasoning-research-lab-founded-by-f
- startupfortune.com/a-former-deepmind-researcher-just-raised-55-million-before-building-any
This profile was checked and corrected against its sources on 6 October 2026. How we check