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On 2026-06-24 @bneyshabur announced Mirendil with co‑founders Harsh Mehta, Shayan…

Brief

Mirendil is a startup announced 2026-06-24 by @bneyshabur and co‑founders Harsh Mehta, Shayan Salehian, and Tara Rezaei. Backed by a $200M seed led by a16z and Kleiner Perkins plus major NVIDIA investment, it aims to build self‑accelerating AI R&D to speed scientific progress, decentralize AI power, and enable labs and companies to own their infrastructure; hiring now.

Why it matters

On 2026-06-24 @bneyshabur announced Mirendil with co‑founders Harsh Mehta, Shayan Salehian, and Tara Rezaei.

Key details

  • Mirendil closed a $200M seed round led by a16z and Kleiner Perkins, with a major investment from NVIDIA and other backers.
  • Mirendil's goal is to build self‑accelerating AI R&D to accelerate science and technology; its 20‑person founding team comes from Anthropic, xAI, Google DeepMind, and OpenAI, and the company intends to democratize AI infrastructure so labs and businesses can retain control.
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Today, I’m excited to formally announce @mirendil with my amazing co-founders Harsh Mehta, Shayan Salehian, and Tara Rezaei!

We’re fortunate to work with @a16z and @kleinerperkins, who led our seed round of $200M, followed by a major investment from NVIDIA, among others.

Mirendil exists to accelerate science and technology, and through them, to help solve humanity's most pressing problems.

Self-accelerating AI R&D is the most direct path to delivering on AI's broader promise, which is why we believe the most important application of AI is AI itself. Get this loop right, and it compounds. It fundamentally changes the rate of progress itself across all domains.

We believe this capability should be democratized. It should be used to power all scientific efforts trying to innovate at the frontier. There are far more important problems—and broader ones—than any single lab can take on, so more groups should be able to pursue them.

This pulls concentration of power away from a few labs: businesses and science labs can own their AI and infrastructure, keep their margins, and control their own destiny instead of ceding it all to a single AI lab.

We’re a small team with a singular focus. Our founding team consists of 20 researchers and engineers from frontier institutions including Anthropic, xAI, Google DeepMind, and OpenAI, united by a passion for science and a drive to build the technologies that move it faster. If you want to build the system that builds systems, join us!

@HarshMeh1a, @shayan_, @tararezaeikh