# Aether's pitch deck > Aether's pitch deck: 15 slides, and the funding round we observed afterwards. Source: https://millionrounds.com/decks/aether (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article) **Aether** AI 1 / 15 Read in the app Pitch deck # Aether's *pitch deck* The deck, and the 4 rounds we watched Aether raise afterwards, with the investors each report named. Aether, also known as Aether Bio, is a biotechnology company focused on developing AI-designed molecular machines. They are pioneering the Protein Function Model, which aims to discover novel proteins with unique functions that can outperform traditional chemistry. Aether's team is dedicated to engineering proteins that can surpass conventional methods in speed, cost, durability, and sustainability. The company offers an AI-driven protein design platform that facilitates the discovery of selective metal-binding proteins and other functional proteins. This technology combines AI design with scalable manufacturing to provide low-cost, high-performance solutions. Aether's flagship application is in Next-Gen Critical Mineral Processing, where they create selective metal-binding proteins to efficiently recover critical minerals, significantly reducing capital and operational expenditures compared to traditional mining methods. Their solutions cater to the mining and mineral processing industries, as well as research and industrial sectors seeking advanced protein applications. 15 slides 2.2MB US AI Artificial intelligence (AI) Read the deck Free account. The deck belongs to Aether, so reading it needs one; everything on this page is public. What is in it ## The deck, slide by slide Each slide by what it argues. 15 slides against a median of 13 across the 1,712 decks we hold. *median* - 1 **Cover** - 2 **Vision** - 3 **Vision** - 4 - 5 - 6 **Product** - 7 **Product** - 8 **Product** - 9 **Problem** - 10 **Problem** - 11 - 12 **Product** - 13 **Go to market** - 14 **Product** - 15 **Product** Cover Vision Product Problem Go to market What happened next ## $5.7M across 4 rounds **4** rounds observed **$5.7M** reported in total **Jul 2022** first we saw **Aug 2025** most recent - Aug 2025 Seed **$2.2M** [Brand Fund 2](https://millionrounds.com/fund/brand-fund-2)[Icehouse Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/icehouse-ventures)[SE Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/se-ventures) Reported by Startup Daily - Apr 2024 Seed **$2.5M** [Amino Capital](https://millionrounds.com/fund/amino-capital)[Collaborative Fund](https://millionrounds.com/fund/collaborative-fund)[Y Combinator](https://millionrounds.com/fund/y-combinator) Source recorded - Nov 2022 Seed **$500K** [Startuplab](https://millionrounds.com/fund/startuplab)[Y Combinator](https://millionrounds.com/fund/y-combinator) Source recorded - Jul 2022 Series A **$500K** [A*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/a-star-co)[Y Combinator](https://millionrounds.com/fund/y-combinator) Source recorded [Everyone who backed Aether](https://millionrounds.com/company/aether) Form D What they told the regulator ## Aether filed 3 Form Ds with the SEC The company reporting its own raise, rather than a journalist reporting it. **$1.2M** sold under the offering **Oct 2025** most recent filing 1 / 15 The deck itself ## Read Aether's full pitch deck All 15 slides, each read for what it argues and set against the decks that raised at the same stage. The cover is shown here; the rest is read in the app. Read the deck *→* Free account. The deck belongs to Aether. ## Investors who claim them Firms listing Aether on their own portfolio page: the firm's own account rather than a round we watched. Weaker than an announcement, much stronger than a list somebody sold us. [**Shrug Capital** VC firm](https://millionrounds.com/fund/shrug-capital)[**Modi Ventures** VC firm](https://millionrounds.com/fund/modi-ventures)[**Radicle Impact** VC firm](https://millionrounds.com/fund/radicle-impact-partners)[**Story Ventures** VC firm](https://millionrounds.com/fund/story-ventures) ## More decks [**SpaceX** AI 1 / 15 **$42B** raised after](https://millionrounds.com/decks/spacex)[**Mistral** AI 1 / 7 **$3.3B** raised after](https://millionrounds.com/decks/mistral)[**Temporal** AI 1 / 15 **$996M** raised after](https://millionrounds.com/decks/temporal)[**ElevenLabs** AI 1 / 15 **$780M** raised after](https://millionrounds.com/decks/elevenlabs) [Browse all 1,712 decks](https://millionrounds.com/decks). We hold no record of where this file came from or on what terms. If it is yours and you would rather it were not here, [tell us](https://millionrounds.com/corrections?deck=aether) and it goes.