MIT trio raises $28M seed round for Boltz to build open-source AI models predicting biomolecule structures for drug discovery after AlphaFold 3 went closed-source

Boltz raises $28M seed to build open AI models in biology

From L-R: Boltz co-founders Gabriele Corso, Jeremy Wohlwend and Saro Passaro January 8, 2026 07:00 AM EST FinancingAI Exclusive: An MIT trio built some of biotech’s favorite AI models. Now, they're building a business Andrew Dunn Senior Biopharma Correspondent While the newest AlphaFold model took a leap forward in 2024 by predicting structures of nearly all biomolecules instead of just proteins … Sign up to read this article for free. Get free access to a limited number of art...