Funding newsPublished October 7, 2026

Rivercell Secures $25.0M Seed Funding

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The race to predict how living cells respond to drugs and genetic changes just got a significant boost, with Paris-based Rivercell announcing it has closed a $25.0M Seed funding round. The capital infusion will fuel the company's work on its proprietary data engine and AI model, designed to forecast cellular reactions by training on interventional, time-resolved, multimodal single-cell data produced at scale.

Investors HV, HCVC, Alven, and Bpifrance Digital Venture backed the round, signaling confidence in Rivercell's ambitious goal to build an AI world model of the cell.

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We are launching today with $25M to build the AI world model of the cell 🚀 Predicting how human cells respond to treatment will transform drug discovery, but the right training data doesn't exist at scale yet.

Our co-founders Yann Fleureau and Eric Durand created Rivercell to address this problem: we build a proprietary data engine and automated wet lab in Paris, generating time-resolved, multimodal single-cell data at scale to train AI Virtual Cell models. Today we are announcing a $25M seed round led by HV, with participation from HCVC, Alven and Bpifrance Digital Venture. We are also announcing the

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