
Basecamp Research designs tailored proteins and biological systems by applying AI to the world’s largest biological database and knowledge graph. It trains generative models on a high-resolution map of global genetic, evolutionary, and environmental context to identify and refine novel proteins for specific industrial, therapeutic, and diagnostic applications. The company uses a proprietary knowledge graph and AI-based design workflows to reduce or replace costly directed evolution campaigns. Customers include biopharma companies and research laboratories that integrate the designs into drug discovery, food, and industrial pipelines. Basecamp partners with biodiversity groups worldwide and supplies scalable, database-driven design capabilities to large life-sciences organizations.

Basecamp Research designs tailored proteins and biological systems by applying AI to the world’s largest biological database and knowledge graph. It trains generative models on a high-resolution map of global genetic, evolutionary, and environmental context to identify and refine novel proteins for specific industrial, therapeutic, and diagnostic applications. The company uses a proprietary knowledge graph and AI-based design workflows to reduce or replace costly directed evolution campaigns. Customers include biopharma companies and research laboratories that integrate the designs into drug discovery, food, and industrial pipelines. Basecamp partners with biodiversity groups worldwide and supplies scalable, database-driven design capabilities to large life-sciences organizations.
Headquarters: London, UK
Founded: 2019
Core product: BaseData™ biodiversity/metagenomics dataset and EDEN family foundation models
Tech focus: AI-driven protein and biological system design
Recent financing: Series B $60M (announced 2024-10-09)
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Biotechnology research focused on protein design, genomic design and biologics discovery using AI and large biodiversity datasets.
2019
Biotechnology Research
$60,000,000
Series B announced Oct 9, 2024
“Backed by a syndicate including Singular, redalpine, True Ventures, S32, Hummingbird Ventures, Systemiq Capital, Valo Ventures, Blue Horizon Corporation, and individual backers such as Andy Conrad, André Hoffmann, Feike Sijbesma and Paul Polman”
About us
At Basecamp Research, we tap the planet’s unexplored biodiversity to solve some of biotechnology’s hardest problems and show the enormous value hidden in nature.
We have built one of the world’s largest and fastest-growing metagenomic datasets, sourced from our global expeditions and partnerships. Using this extensive resource, our team runs petascale deep learning and bioinformatics pipelines across cloud and HPC infrastructure to uncover novel enzymes, explore new biology, and solve complex biotechnology challenges for our partners. We have a strong focus on automation and scalability, enabling us to keep pace with our rapid growth and focus on high impact technical challenges.
We work closely with some of the most renowned tech companies and organisations, including NVIDIA, The Broad Institute (Harvard), Microsoft and AWS.
We’re an inclusive, flexible workplace, where biologists, engineers, data and machine‑learning scientists, and field explorers are united by a sense of adventure and a belief that nature has already designed the solutions to our planet’s greatest challenges, we just need to uncover them!
If you feel passionate about the power of biology to show the inherent value of nature and to build a better world, we’d love to hear from you.
The Role
We are looking for an experienced Platform Engineer to join the team. The role will be full-time, based physically in our central London office.
As a Senior Platform Engineer, you’ll own our hybrid Kubernetes fleet (on-prem + AWS) and build the self-service infrastructure that empowers biologists and ML engineers to work more effectively. You’ll report to the Platform Engineering Lead, drive security and reliability improvements, and architect new tooling to streamline operations.
You will be working alongside leading data scientists, bioinformaticians, and ML scientists, to build the largest and most diverse metagenomic dataset known to the industry. You will be instrumental in building and scaling our infrastructure to leverage our data asset for next generation therapeutics, deep learning models, and some of the industries toughest biotechnology challenges.
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What we can offer in return
Do you want to join our team as our new Senior Platform Engineer? Then we'd love to hear about you!