Nous Research

Nous Research is an AI research lab creating world-class open source AI. We are best known for Hermes Agent, our open-source AI agent harness, alongside the Hermes series of general-purpose, human-aligned models. Building Hermes.

AI agentsFoundation models and researchDeveloper tools and cloud

Nous Research raised $65M in a Seed round announced April 29, 2025, according to finsmes.com. Investors in that round: Paradigm.

Raise history

1. September 29, 2026
   First seen by Recent Funding
   via startups.gallery
2. April 29, 2025
   Seed · $65M
   PParadigm (lead)
   Source: finsmes.com (startups.gallery listing)

Investors

• DDistributed Capital Partners
• PParadigm

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