# Discovery Loop: valuation, funding, and the secondary tape

## The short version

- No priced instruments on record yet; milestones only.

| instrument | value | as of | source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claimed valuation | n/a |  | graph |


## Recent milestones

- 2026-09-11 - [Valuation fork, leg 2 (REPORTED, unclosed): seeking a new raise at a valuation of around $50 billion - five times the month-earlier reported](https://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-deans-startup-discovery-loop-is-eyeing-a-valuation-2026-9)
- 2026-08-12 - [Valuation fork, leg 1 (REPORTED, unclosed): in discussions for $1 billion in financing at a valuation of around $10 billion, per people fami](https://www.businessinsider.com/former-google-exec-jeff-dean-valuation-for-new-ai-startup-2026-8)
- 2026-08-05 - [Discovery Loop founded (Aug 5 2026): Jeff Dean (CEO), Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le and Oriol Vinyals leave Google - Dean after 27 years as emplo](https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/05/jeff-dean-and-other-top-ai-researchers-are-leaving-google-to-launch-their-own-startup/)

[marks](https://data.somen.ai/marks) | [napkin](https://data.somen.ai/napkin) | [scorecard](https://data.somen.ai/scorecard) | [all companies](https://data.somen.ai/companies)

*Derived from the SOMEN graph at render time. The arithmetic cannot lobby you.*