Behnam Neyshabur is Co-Founder and CEO of Mirendil, a San Francisco-based AI company building self-accelerating AI systems to democratize frontier scientific research in biology and materials science.

Behnam worked on AI for science for over 7 years, leading Anthropic's scientific AI reasoning team and spending more than five years at Google DeepMind before departing Anthropic in December 2025 to found Mirendil.

Behnam is a cited AI researcher with over 43,000 Google Scholar citations, and his core thesis is that the most important application of AI is AI itself, using self-accelerating R&D to compound scientific progress.

Alongside co-founders Harsh Mehta (ex-Anthropic), Shayan Salehian (ex-xAI), and Tara Rezaei (ex-OpenAI), Behnam assembled one of the most pedigreed founding teams in the AI neo-labs movement.

Mirendil closed a $200M seed round at a $1B valuation led by Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins, and NVIDIA, positioning the company to build lab-grade AI research platforms for scientists and engineers worldwide.