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Advanced Nonlinear Technologies · Seed 2026
Intelligence is leaving the data center.

The next era of AI
lives everywhere else.

In agents, on devices, in silicon, at the edge.
We are building the architecture that travels with it.

Cloud first. Device next. Silicon after.
The work has already begun.

Seed Round · 2026 · London
gaurav@nonlinear.technology · nonlinear.technology
Why the field's bet is breaking

The cloud era of AI
is structurally constrained.

+172%
DRAM YoY
The memory cost of frontier AI is rising faster than the revenue it generates.
Sold out
HBM through 2026
High-bandwidth memory — what frontier AI depends on — is fully allocated.
$1B+
per year, one model
Annual inference cost to serve a single frontier model at scale.

Inference cost is now the binding constraint on enterprise AI. Every enterprise running agents at scale wants the same quality, at a fraction of the cost.

That is the door we walk through first.

What we built

While the field scaled up,
we built the architecture
for the world after the cloud.

A new family of efficient models — same training compute, far fewer parameters, best-in-class quality retention
Validated across language, vision, diffusion, DNA, and protein — five modalities, one approach
Designed from the ground up to run anywhere — cloud, device, silicon
The same architecture, three deployment surfaces
Patent-pending. Architectural details disclosed under NDA, post term-sheet

Not quantization. Not pruning. Not a smaller transformer. A fundamentally different construction.

The numbers, today
Best quality-per-parameter of any known approach
88%
of frontier quality
·
18%
of the parameters
BenchmarkStandard 1.5BANT 272M
LAMBADA (accuracy ↑)39.0%34.5%
HellaSwag (accuracy ↑)35.0%32.0%
WikiText PPL (lower ↓)26.632.8

5.6× fewer parameters. Same training compute. The gap closes as the models get larger. This raise extends the curve to 70B.

The route

Cloud now. Device next. Silicon after.

Stage One · Now
Cloud
Cloud-hosted agentic AI through EverydaySeries. Enterprises pay 20–40% less per query. Revenue today, growing through Series A.
Stage Two · Series A
Device
Purpose-built, device-resident models. Customers bring their SFT data; EverydaySeries fine-tunes and packages an ANT model for their device target. The fine-tuning factory — the only platform where architecture and deployment are the same company.
Stage Three · Series B+
Silicon
Custom silicon. ANT-designed hardware optimized for ANT models. The chip that makes on-device intelligence the default.
Alongside · All stages
OEM License
Architecture licensed at chip and firmware level. Once cloud, device, and silicon are proven, the licensing conversation writes itself.

Each stage funds the next. Each stage de-risks the next. One vision, built in four stages.

Stage one, in detail

Today: cloud AI
that costs less.

How it works

EverydaySeries is our agent platform. Three paying customers today, running on frontier LLMs.

Beginning this raise: ANT models light up inside the platform. The same agent task, routed to our model instead of GPT or Claude — at a fraction of the inference cost.

The customer pays less. We capture the margin. Every query routed to ANT is revenue, evidence, and a data point for the next stage.

The metric we're committing to
North star · Seed to Series A
ANT adoption rate inside EverydaySeries
What fraction of customer queries route to our models, and how that fraction grows week-over-week.

This is the chart that defines the trajectory.
Stage two, what's next

Next: purpose-built intelligence,
shipped with the device.

The platform

EverydaySeries adds a fine-tuning layer. The customer describes the task, uploads their SFT data, picks a device target — and gets back a purpose-built ANT model packaged with the device runtime.

Not a general model made smaller. A model built for one job, at the smallest size that job requires, deployed where the job happens. No cloud. No subscription. No data leaving the device.

The EverydaySeries customer who fine-tuned an ANT model for their cloud agent already has the data. Putting the same model on their device is the natural next sale to the same customer.

Already proven: a language model runs on Apple Watch — dual-core CPU, no Neural Engine, no internet. The architecture works at the smallest commercial silicon that exists.

What gets bought today
Rural clinic tablet
Fine-tuned on regional protocols, local language, local workflows. Works offline forever.
Industrial controller
Anomaly detection fine-tuned on manufacturer failure data. Works in a basement with no network.
Point-of-sale system
Inventory + customer service in the store's language. Runs on the till. Doesn't break when the wifi does.
Automotive HMI
Voice control fine-tuned on the car's feature set, runs in the head unit. No connected car required.
Why now

The field is admitting
the bet is breaking.

Google · March 2026
TurboQuant. "Build less memory, not more." Memory stocks fell the same day. Their solution still requires HBM. Ours never did.
MIT · April 2026
Looped architectures match dense transformers with 50% fewer parameters. Independent confirmation of a thesis we have been building for five years.

We have been building this for five years. The market is now ready to buy it.
The cloud incumbents cannot pivot — they are committed to the wrong axis.
We are the company built around the right one.

Traction

Six months.

3
Paying customers
£18K
ARR
£0
External capital raised
Patents filed on the construction methodology
Data partnership signed

Everything you have seen so far was built on this. The next stage is what this raise unlocks.

Team

Built for this problem.

Founder · CEO
Dr Gaurav Gandhi. PhD nonlinear systems & chaos theory. Construction approach traces directly to doctoral research — a decade of prior work, not a 2024 pivot. Five years chip design at STMicroelectronics and Cadence. Prior company built and exited. RAEng (LiF) Fellow.
CCO · Joining
Founded, scaled, and exited tech businesses. Operational MBE. Defence and public sector procurement.
Engineering · Joining
ex-Automattic, ex-Deel. Production systems at global scale.
Research · Joining
Cambridge PhD, mathematics. Publication and IP.

Raise closes the team. Commitments in place.

The next twelve months

What this raise buys.

Build the model
1.5B production releaseCompete with Qwen at 1/30th the size.

7B with reasoningTest emergent behaviours at scale.

70B scaling curvePublishable. Verifiable. Ours.
Light up the cloud
ANT models live in EverydaySeriesTrack adoption rate weekly.

Grow enterprise baseConvert cost-savings into recurring revenue.
Prove stage two
Shippable on-device SDKExtend the watch demo.

First iPhone deploymentReal users, no network, same quality.
The Series A pitch is three things
The 70B scaling curve
The EverydaySeries adoption rate chart
The first on-device SDK in production
Risk

The downside is bounded
by stage one.

If architecture matures faster than expected
On-device deployment lands at Series A and silicon conversations open at Series B. The upside case accelerates.
If architecture takes longer
EverydaySeries continues to grow as a cost-efficient agent platform — generating revenue, building the enterprise community, and producing the production data the later stages will need.

Either way, stage one is a real business. The later stages are upside, not survival.

We are not asking you to bet on the whole vision.
We are asking you to fund the first stage —
which is already underway.

The ask

Seed Round
2026

£[X.X] M · London · One or two co-leads
Today
A working architecture. A watch demo. Three paying customers. £18K ARR. Patents filed.
By Series A
Cloud AI revenue at scale. The 70B scaling curve published. The first on-device SDK in production.

We are not asking you to fund a frontier AI lab.
We are not asking you to fund another agent platform.
We are asking you to fund the architecture that takes intelligence everywhere — starting with the place enterprises are already paying.

Cloud now. Device next. Silicon after. License alongside.

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