Flourish

DeepTech · New York, US

Startup co-founded by Thomas Reardon building brain-inspired, energy-efficient AI architecture.

Founders

Thomas Reardon (United States · ♂) — The creator of Internet Explorer who earned a neuroscience PhD and founded CTRL-labs (sold to Meta), then launched Flourish to apply neuroscience and connectomics to make AI systems far more energy efficient.
Joshua Vogelstein (United States · ♂) — A Johns Hopkins professor working at the intersection of neuroscience and machine learning who co-founded Flourish to draw on brain connectomics to design more efficient AI.
Rob Williams (US · ♂) — A former Amazon S-team executive who worked on Alexa, he co-founded Flourish in 2024 with Thomas Reardon and pitched the brain-inspired AI concept to Jeff Bezos using Amazon's press-release-first method.

Shares the most investors with (number = shared investors):

Date	Round	Amount
Jun 2026	Funding round Flourish raised $500M at a $2.5B valuation with Jeff Bezos contributing close to $100M, alongside Lux Capital, GV and Catalio Capital, to build AI that runs on a brain-like energy budget.	$500M

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