Beam
Open-weight model for coding, reasoning and agentic applications.
Reflection AI Funding History
Reflection AI develops open-weight models and the infrastructure to customize and deploy them. Founded by former DeepMind researchers Misha Laskin and Ioannis Antonoglou, it expanded from autonomous software engineering into frontier model development and deployments for enterprises and public-sector organizations.
Company Overview
Reflection AI
Founded 2024 · New York, New York, US
Official WebsiteReflection AI Funding Timeline
Funding Round
Undisclosed
Reflection confirmed a financing at a US$25 billion pre-money valuation. The cited notice does not disclose the amount raised.
Source · reflection.ai ↗Funding Round
$2B · $8B valuation
Reuters corrected an earlier version: NVIDIA is not established as lead. The announcement names additional investors; displayed investor identities are partial.
Participation included NVIDIA, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital.
Source · investing.com ↗Seed and Series A
$130M · combined disclosed
Reflection emerged from stealth with both its seed and Series A financing disclosed in one announcement.
Seed and Series A Round date Round Amount Investors and milestones Announced Mar 7, 2025 Series A $105M Led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, CRV.
Round context
Reflection AI disclosed this Series A in 2025-03-07. The amount records this financing, rather than the company valuation.
Announced Mar 7, 2025 Seed $25M Led by Sequoia Capital, CRV.
Round context
The US$130 million total disclosed in March 2025 combines this US$25 million seed financing and the US$105 million Series A.
Reflection AI Founding Team
Misha Laskin and Ioannis Antonoglou brought DeepMind research experience to Reflection. Their early focus on reinforcement learning and software agents developed into a broader program spanning open models and enterprise deployment.
Reflection AI Company Development
From Coding Agents to Frontier Open Intelligence
Reflection emerged from stealth in March 2025 with $130 million across seed and Series A financing. Its initial research centered on reinforcement learning for software agents that could plan, debug and complete longer programming tasks. The company subsequently broadened its mission to open frontier intelligence and the deployment stack around it.
Financing a Larger Model-Development Program
The October 2025 financing brought $2 billion at an $8 billion valuation. NVIDIA participated alongside other institutional and strategic investors. Reflection’s newsroom later recorded an April 2026 CEO confirmation of a closed round at a $25 billion pre-money valuation, with no financing amount established by the cited notice.
Beam Connects Model Research with Deployment
Reflection now offers Beam through downloadable weights and an API. Its commercial offer also spans customization software, private and on-premises deployments, and engineering support, bringing model development and customer-controlled infrastructure into the same business.
FAQ
Who founded Reflection AI?
Former DeepMind researchers Misha Laskin and Ioannis Antonoglou founded Reflection AI in 2024.
What does Reflection AI build?
It develops open-weight AI models and supporting software and infrastructure for customization and deployment.
What is Beam at Reflection AI?
Beam is Reflection’s model offering for coding, reasoning and agentic work, available through weights and an API.
Did Reflection start as a coding-agent company?
Its early focus was reinforcement learning for autonomous software engineering. It later expanded into frontier open models and the infrastructure needed to deploy them.