BenevolentAI
Taken private: merged into Osaka Holdings (renamed BenevolentAI S.A.) and delisted from Euronext Amsterdam 2025-03-13. Target identification / drug repurposing / mechanism tracing. 85+ data sources, petabyte-scale, rebuilt every few weeks. Wet-lab results re-enter the graph and shift downstream predictions — institutional experimental memory closing a feedback loop. As of Oct 2026 benevolent.com leads with Qor, powered by BenevolentAI, a life-science intelligence service for biopharma decision makers and consultancies. Qor (qor.one) is a continuously updated decision-intelligence service built on BenevolentAI's knowledge graph and reasoning methods: it tracks evidence on an asset or indication (competitive position, rival readouts, comparable deals), source-verifies each claim and flags when an earlier conclusion stops holding. It targets biotech teams and life-science consultancies.
Active · Verified 2026-10-29 · fresh as of 2026-10-29 · 34 cited facts, 7 with a third-party source · 2 recorded changes · Suggest a correction
At a glance
- Type
- Continuously-refreshed biological KG vendor fix
- Tier
- T1
- Created
- 2013 (founded 2013 by Kenneth Mulvany) vendor fix
- Latest release
- not applicable — not OSS fix
- License
- not applicable — not OSS fix
- GitHub
- not applicable — no GitHub repo fix
- Pricing
- Qor: free trial (Try Qor for free) plus demo-led enterprise sales; no public price list third-party fix
- Funding
- $550M total raised (pre-merger); merged into Osaka Holdings (renamed BenevolentAI S.A.) and delisted from Euronext Amsterdam 2025-03-13 third-party fix
- Freshness
- 2026-10-29 fix
- Layer
- agent-infra repo fix
- Licensing
- commercial third-party fix
Memory taxonomy
- storage
- graph
- retrieval
- graph-traversal
- persistence
- long-term
- update
- extraction
- unit
- fact
- governance
- inspectable
- conflict
- overwrite
When to use
Optimised for: research-workflow integration + provenance + claim grounding
Anti-fit: not for non-research / non-academic use cases
Pros & cons
Pros
Long-running drug-discovery KG with established pharma partnerships — memory is paired with experimental decision support, not just retrieval.
Cons
Drug-discovery scope only; commercial/subscription model; investor-facing pivots have introduced strategic uncertainty.
Claims & capabilities
AstraZeneca, Merck KGaA, Eli Lilly partners. Went private via Osaka Holdings merger in 2025.
Technical surface
- API surface
- searched not found
- Backend storage
- searched not found
- Deployment
- Managed-only
- Embedding model
- searched not found
- Multi-tenancy
- searched not found
- MCP
- no MCP support advertised — vertical product, no MCP server / client integration documented
- A2A
- no A2A protocol support advertised — vertical product, no A2A integration documented
- OpenTelemetry
- no OpenTelemetry integration advertised — vendor logs/observability not publicly documented
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Sources (33 cited facts, 7 third-party)
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- What it is Continuously-refreshed biological KG vendor
- What it does & what's distinct Taken private: merged into Osaka Holdings (renamed BenevolentAI S.A.) and delisted from … third-party
- Claims / benefits AstraZeneca, Merck KGaA, Eli Lilly partners. Went private via Osaka Holdings merger in 2… vendor
- Modalities text vendor
- Created 2013 (founded 2013 by Kenneth Mulvany) vendor
- Funding $550M total raised (pre-merger); merged into Osaka Holdings (renamed BenevolentAI S.A.) … third-party
- Customers / scale AstraZeneca, Merck KGaA, Eli Lilly partners vendor
- Pricing Qor: free trial (Try Qor for free) plus demo-led enterprise sales; no public price list third-party
- Deployment Managed-only vendor
- HQ UK third-party
- Founders / pedigree Founded 2013 by Kenneth Mulvany; co-founders Michael Brennan / Ivan Griffin / Brent Gute… third-party
- Memory volume / scale petabyte-scale from 85+ data sources (vendor claim) vendor
- Consistency strong consistency required for clinical record integrity vendor
- Versioning immutable audit log (HIPAA + 21 CFR Part 11 require audit trails) vendor
- Tombstoning audit-logged soft delete (regulatory retention requirement) vendor
- Schema evolution FHIR/HL7-aligned schema (clinical standard); minor versioning vendor
- Namespace primitives tenant-per-customer (BAA-scoped); patient-scoped within tenant vendor
- Contradiction handling always overwrite (last-write-wins) vendor
- Forgetting policy regulated retention (7+ years per HIPAA + state law); patient-requested deletion governe… vendor
- Validated verticals research only (academia + R&D in pharma / biotech / scientific publishing) vendor
- Time to running <10min (hosted SaaS) to <1day (enterprise integration) vendor
- Anti-fit not for non-research / non-academic use cases vendor
- Optimised for research-workflow integration + provenance + claim grounding vendor
- Adjacent infrastructure self-contained SaaS; some integrate with reference managers vendor
- Pros Long-running drug-discovery KG with established pharma partnerships — memory is paired w… vendor
- Cons Drug-discovery scope only; commercial/subscription model; investor-facing pivots have in… vendor
- Project & sources benevolent.com vendor
- cost-pricing-model subscription vendor
- cost-last-verified 2026-06-29 vendor
- architecture-deployment-locus cloud third-party
- licensing-bucket commercial third-party
- positioning-platform-vs-product product vendor
- taxonomy-three-layer-rollup agent-infra repo
What changed
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- 2026-10-29
- Pricing “Enterprise only” → “Qor: free trial (Try Qor for free) plus demo-led enterprise sales; no public price list” source
- 2026-10-22
- Funding / ownership “$550M total raised; acquired by Osaka Holdings Mar 2025” → “$550M total raised (pre-merger); merged into Osaka Holdings (renamed BenevolentAI S.A.) and delisted from Euronext Amsterdam 2025-03-13” source