London-based AI startup Inephany has secured$2.2 million in pre-seed funding to develop technology aimed at making the training of neural networks-particularly large language models-more efficient and affordable.

The investment round was led by Amadeus Capital Partners, with participation from Sure Valley Ventures and AI pioneer Professor Steve Young, who joins as both chair and angel investor.

Founded in July 2024 by Dr John Torr, Hami Bahraynian, and Maurice von Sturm, Inephany is building an AI-driven platform that improves training efficiency in real time.

By increasing sample efficiency and reducing computing demands, the company hopes to dramatically cut the cost and time of training cutting-edge models.

The team claims their solution could make AI model development at least ten times more cost-effective compared to current methods.

The funding will support growth of Inephany's engineering team and accelerate the launch of its first product later this year.

With the costs of training state-of-the-art models now reaching into the hundreds of millions, the startup's platform aims to make high-performance AI development more sustainable and accessible across industries such as healthcare, weather forecasting, and drug discovery.

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