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Recursion

Recursion is a Salt Lake City biotechnology company that industrialises drug discovery by running vast numbers of cell experiments and mapping the results with machine learning. It bought two Canadian AI drug discovery startups in 2023 — Toronto's Cyclica for $40 million and Valence for $47.5 million — and merged with Exscientia in 2024.

AI drug discoverySalt Lake Cityrecursion.com
$40Mpaid for Toronto's Cyclica, agreed May 2023BioPharma Dive, 2023-05
$47.5Mpaid for Valence, agreed at the same time as CyclicaBioPharma Dive, 2023-05
$688Mall-stock combination with Exscientia, completed 20 November 2024Recursion investor news

What they build

Recursion OSThe platform that runs large-scale cell experiments and maps the results with machine learning.Product page ↗

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About

Recursion's premise is that drug discovery can be run as an industrial process: generate enormous volumes of standardised cell-imaging data, then use machine learning to find relationships no one went looking for. Its Canadian footprint arrived in 2023, when it agreed to acquire Cyclica — the Toronto company whose digital chemistry suite handled mechanism-of-action deconvolution and generative chemistry — for $40 million, alongside Montreal's Valence for $47.5 million; both teams were folded into Recursion. In November 2024 it completed a $688 million all-stock combination with the UK's Exscientia, bringing that company's AI platforms and immunology and oncology pipelines together with Recursion's dataset and its Nvidia-powered BioHive-2 supercomputer. Oren Kraus, its director of machine learning, presented Phenomic AI at TechTO in August 2018.

Backers

Publicly traded on the Nasdaq as RXRX.

Quick answers

What does Recursion do?

It runs drug discovery as an industrial process — huge volumes of standardised cell experiments, mapped with machine learning to find biological relationships and drug candidates.

What is Recursion's Canadian connection?

It acquired Toronto's Cyclica for $40 million and Montreal's Valence for $47.5 million in 2023, integrating both teams.

Did Recursion take the TechTO stage?

No. Oren Kraus, its director of machine learning, presented Phenomic AI at TechTO in August 2018, before joining.

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