Dr. Simon Kohl is the founder and CEO of Latent Labs, a frontier AI lab that enables biotech and pharmaceutical companies to generate and optimize proteins. Simon previously started and co-led DeepMind's protein design team and was a senior research scientist on the Nobel Prize-winning AlphaFold2 project, where he developed the crucial pLDDT confidence quantification system now widely used to predict laboratory success in protein design. At Latent Labs, backed by $50M in total funding from investors including Radical Ventures, Sofinnova Partners, Google Chief Scientist Jeff Dean and CEO of Anthropic Dario Amodei, Simon leads a team innovating frontier models that use cutting-edge generative techniques to computationally create new therapeutic molecules like antibodies and enzymes. The company is focused on enabling partners at scale to tackle challenging targets, develop precision medicines, and accelerate development timelines through their AI protein design platform.