{"id":1005353,"date":"2026-04-28T09:48:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T04:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1005353"},"modified":"2026-04-28T10:14:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T04:44:34","slug":"former-deepmind-researchers-startup-bags-1-1-billion-in-seed-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/28\/former-deepmind-researchers-startup-bags-1-1-billion-in-seed-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Former DeepMind researcher\u2019s startup bags $1.1 billion in seed funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK-based Ineffable Intelligence, founded by former DeepMind researcher David Silver, has raised $1.1 billion in a seed funding round led by US venture capital firms Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed, with backing from the British government. <\/p>\n<p>The round &#8211; \u200cEurope&#8217;s \u2060largest seed \u2060financing to date &#8211; included participation from Nvidia and Google , \u200band values Ineffable at $5.1 billion, the company said on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK-based Ineffable Intelligence, founded by former DeepMind researcher David Silver, has raised $1.1 billion in a seed funding round led by US venture capital firms Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed, with backing from the British government. The round &#8211; \u200cEurope&#8217;s \u2060largest seed \u2060financing to date &#8211; included participation from Nvidia and Google , \u200band values Ineffable at $5.1 billion, the company said on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005383,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005353\/revisions\/1005383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}