Alumni of Google DeepMind · London

DeepMind Mafia

London's deepest bench of AI talent. DeepMind alumni now run labs in London, Paris, New York and the Bay Area.

8alumni startups

8named on Labspie

11founders

$19.1bnin unicorn valuations

The companies

Company	Founded by (Google DeepMind alumni)	Field	Based in	Valuation
Inflection AI Enterprise AI built on its own models.	Mustafa Suleyman	AI	Palo Alto, United States	–
Mistral AI Open-weight and commercial language models.	Arthur Mensch	AI	Paris, France	$14bn
Isomorphic Labs AI-first drug design spun out of DeepMind.	Demis Hassabis	Health	London, United Kingdom	–
Latent Labs Generative models for protein design.	Simon Kohl	Health	London, United Kingdom	–
Ineffable Intelligence Reinforcement learning lab founded by the AlphaGo research lead.	David Silver	AI	London, United Kingdom	$5.1bn
H Company Agentic models that act on computers.	Laurent Sifre, Karl Tuyls, Daan Wierstra	AI	Paris, France	–
Reflection AI Open frontier models and autonomous coding agents.	Misha Laskin, Ioannis Antonoglou	AI	New York City, United States	–
Physical Intelligence General-purpose models for robots.	Karol Hausman	Hardware	San Francisco, United States	–

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