Evidence-backed European AI register
Basecamp Research
Reviewed identity, roles, model listings, pricing and evidence for Basecamp Research.
Dataset compiled 2026-08-27 · evidence over inference
Reviewed identity
- Headquarters scope
- European non-EU headquarters
- Headquarters record
- London
- Legal entity
- Ltd (UK private limited company)
- Ownership
- VC-backed private; founded by Glen Gowers and Oliver Vince (both Oxford)
- Founded
- 2019
- Confidence
- medium
- Last verified
- 2026-08-22
Evidence boundaries
Organisation listings identify a reviewed canonical record. Model listings show an association in the source register; they do not by themselves establish model creation, current API availability, hosting location or infrastructure ownership.
Model listings
- BaseFold
- Type
- multimodal
- Parameters
- unknown
- Context
- unknown
- Languages
- unknown
- Licence
- proprietary
- Release
- 2024-03
- BaseGraph (foundational biological dataset)
- Type
- embedding
- Parameters
- unknown
- Context
- unknown
- Languages
- unknown
- Licence
- proprietary
- Release
- unknown
Profile note
London 'biology foundation model' company whose real moat is proprietary data: BaseGraph is built from novel biodiversity sampling under access-and-benefit-sharing agreements with 25+ countries, rather than from public sequence databases. BaseFold augments AlphaFold2 with that data and reportedly beats it substantially on large complex structures. Interesting as a counter-model to Isomorphic Labs: independent and UK-owned, competing on data provenance rather than on compute. Latest verified funding is the $60M round of Oct 2024; no 2026 round found.
Record sources
- https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/basecamp-research-launches-basefold-a-breakthrough-in-3d-protein-str…
- https://siliconangle.com/2024/10/09/ai-startup-basecamp-raises-60m-scale-research-proteins-programmable-next-…
- https://pharmaphorum.com/news/basecamp-research-unveils-improved-protein-structure-model
- https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/basecamp-research
- https://basecamp-research.com/bcr-foundation-models/