San Francisco-based startup Camber has raised $4 million in fresh funding. To help scientists focus on groundbreaking research instead of struggling with outdated computing systems. The company has developed a scientific computing platform designed to simplify how researchers run complex simulations, process vast datasets, and train AI models — all within a cloud environment.
By shifting these heavy workloads to the cloud. Camber allows research institutions to tap into high-performance GPUs without the need to manage costly or obsolete infrastructure. This means scientists can bypass the technical hurdles of on-premises servers and instead channel their energy into scientific discovery.
Camber’s founder, Aristotle Socrates — a former theoretical astrophysicist from Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study — knows firsthand the frustrations of academic computing bottlenecks. Drawing from his experience, he built Camber to remove these barriers with easy-to-use, low- and no-code science engines. These tools are crafted so that even researchers without deep cloud expertise can operate them effortlessly.
“Think about a graduate student at Imperial College or Cambridge wasting two years just learning to navigate old, on-site clusters,” Socrates shared in an interview. “What we’ve built makes running these workloads as simple as flipping a switch.”
Today, Camber’s platform is already in use by more than 200 researchers from 30 institutions. Scientists working in genomics, astrophysics, and high-performance computing rely on Camber to supercharge their projects without worrying about infrastructure limitations.
For Socrates, the mission is clear — to level the playing field in scientific research. “Every scientist should have access to the same computing power as researchers at Stanford or MIT,” he explained. “Camber exists to democratize scientific computing and unlock opportunities for brilliant minds everywhere.”
This latest $4 million seed round was led by Base10 Partners and builds on an earlier $1.5 million pre-seed round from PearVC. With the new capital, Camber plans to grow its technical and product teams, forge global research partnerships, and launch initiatives that open more doors for emerging scientists — including international scholarships for early-career researchers.
“Our mission is simple,” Socrates added. “We want scientists to be limited only by their ideas — never by computing power.”
