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YC Drug Discovery and Delivery Companies

42 Y Combinator drug discovery and delivery startups with verified founder contacts, batch info, and company data.

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Company	Batch	Description	Status	Location	Team	Founders	Reveal
CellType	W26	The agentic drug company. We simulate human biology.	Active	New York, NY, USA	2	David van Dijk, Ivan Vrkic	Reveal
Ditto Biosciences	W26	Evolutionary therapies for autoimmune disease	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	3	Adair Borges, Dennis Sun, Emily Weiss	Reveal
Strand AI	W26	Curated multimodal datasets for biology AI	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	2	Yue Dai, Oded Falik	Reveal
Adventris Pharmaceuticals	W23	Adventris makes cancer vaccines	Active	Baltimore, MD, USA	7	Jen Herbach, William Collis, Mark Yarchoan	Reveal
Diffuse Bio	W23	Generative AI for protein design	Active	San Carlos, CA, USA	10	Namrata Anand	Reveal
Invitris	W23	Creating new protein-based drugs at scale	Active	Munich, Germany	6	Patrick Grossmann, Kilian Vogele	Reveal
Lavo Life Sciences	W23	AI for drug formulation	Inactive	—	3	Scott Swarthout, Zach Glick, Derek Metcalf	Reveal
Miracle	W23	Accelerate clinical trials with real-time, actionable insights	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	6	Jin Kim	Reveal
Persist AI	W23	Developing long-lasting drug formulations 50% faster	Active	Woodland, CA, USA	6	Karthik Raman, Christopher Shelner	Reveal
Rosebud Biosciences	W22	Growing micro-organs to find new drugs	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	3	Kitch Wilson, Evan Lyall	Reveal
WhiteLab Genomics	W22	Unleashing the potential of DNA and RNA based therapies using AI	Active	Paris, France	40	David Delbourgo, Julien Cottineau	Reveal
Abalone Bio	W20	We create activating antibodies to treat diseases others can’t.	Active	Emeryville, CA, USA	14	Richard Yu, Gustavo Pesce	Reveal
Algen Biotechnologies	W20	Using CRISPR to find treatments for cancer and inflammation	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	13	Chun-Hao Huang, Christine Du	Reveal
General Proximity	W20	The next generation of induced-proximity medicines.	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	15	Armand Cognetta	Reveal
Menten AI	W20	Menten AI designs peptide and protein therapeutics using quantum…	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	2	Tamas Gorbe, Hans Melo	Reveal
PostEra	W20	Medicinal Chemistry powered by Machine Learning	Active	Boston, MA, USA	40	Aaron Morris, Alpha Lee, Matthew Robinson	Reveal
Avro Life Science	W18	Skin patches for generic drug delivery.	Active	Waterloo, ON, Canada	8	Shak Lakhani, Keean Sarani	Reveal
Macromoltek	W18	Computational antibody design	Active	Austin, TX, USA	14	Monica Berrondo, Susana Kaufmann	Reveal
Sixfold Bioscience	W18	Delivering RNA therapies.	Active	London, UK	27	George Foot, Anna Perdrix Rosell	Reveal
Numerion Labs	W15	Artificial intelligence for drug discovery.	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	67	Abraham Heifets, Alex Levy, Izhar Wallach	Reveal
b12 Labs	S25	Chemical Copilot for Pharma and Biotech	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	2	Zlatko Jončev, Andres Bran	Reveal
Convexia	S25	The world's first AI-maximalist pharma company	Active	—	4	Ayaan Parikh, Rahul Vijayan	Reveal
Ångström AI	S24	Gen AI molecular simulations that reproduce wetlab results	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	5	Javier Antoran, Jose Miguel Hernandez Lobato, Laurence Midgley	Reveal
Biocartesian	S24	Converting biology into digital molecular maps	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	2	Ian Dardani, Jess Li	Reveal
Nanograb	S23	AI-generated binders for targeted drug delivery	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	5	Debesh Mandal, Christopher Lau, Shanil Panara	Reveal
Olio Labs	S23	Combination therapeutics for the world's toughest diseases	Active	—	5	David Tingley, Tom Roseberry	Reveal
iollo	S22	Building Quinn, an AI scientist accelerating pharma/biotech R&D	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	4	Daniel Gomari	Reveal
Adaptyv	S21	We're building fully automated labs for protein engineering	Active	Lausanne, Switzerland	12	Julian Englert, Daniel Nakhaee-Zadeh Gutierrez	Reveal
CellChorus	S21	The dynamic single-cell analysis company	Active	Houston, TX, USA	4	Dan Meyer, Navin Varadarajan	Reveal
Harmonic Discovery	S21	Multi-targeted therapeutics to treat complex diseases	Active	New York, NY, USA	8	Rayees Rahman, J Lee, Marcel Patek	Reveal
Matrubials	S21	Developing milk-inspired therapeutics for infectious diseases	Active	Davis, CA, USA	4	Bruce German, Carlito Lebrilla, David Mills	Reveal
Mindstate Design Labs	S21	Clinical-stage AI neuroengineering platform	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	7	Dillan DiNardo, Tom Ray	Reveal
Parallel Bio	S21	Using the immune system to cure disease	Active	Cambridge, MA, USA	9	Robert DiFazio, Juliana Hilliard	Reveal
Pirouette Pharma	S21	We make injections as easy as pushing a button!	Active	Boston, MA, USA	9	Conor Cullinane, Matthew Kane, Elijah Kapas	Reveal
Talus Bio	S21	Discovering drugs that target the DNA regulome	Active	Seattle, WA, USA	16	Alex Federation, Lindsay Pino	Reveal
Gilgamesh Pharmaceuticals	S20	Gilgamesh Pharmaceuticals, a Clinical stage biotechnology company…	Active	New York, NY, USA	15	JONATHAN SPORN, Andrew Kruegel, Dalibor Sames	Reveal
Nabla Bio	S20	We use AI to design antibodies for intractable diseases	Active	Boston, MA, USA	8	Surge Biswas, Frances Anastassacos	Reveal
Pardes Biosciences	S20	We break viruses	Public	San Francisco, CA, USA	2	Uri Lopatin	Reveal
Arpeggio Bio	S19	Arpeggio Bio develops drugs targeting transcription factors using AI…	Active	Boulder, CO, USA	20	Joey Azofeifa	Reveal
Synkrino Biotherapeutics	S18	Synkrino's AI, SATIS is a powerful, unbiased discovery system for…	Active	Oakland, CA, USA	2	Jason Barbour, David Ott	Reveal
Exonic	F25	Crowdsourcing drug discovery.	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	3	Ben Brimacombe	Reveal
Reticular	F24	Interpretable AI for drug discovery	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	2	John Yang	Reveal

Batch Distribution

WW263 WW236 WW222 WW205 WW183 WW151

Status Breakdown

Active40 Inactive1 Public1

Top Locations

San Francisco17 New York3 Boston3 Baltimore1 San Carlos1 Munich1

About YC Drug Discovery and Delivery Companies

Y Combinator has funded 42 drug discovery and delivery companies since its founding in 2005. These startups span from early-stage pre-launch to publicly traded companies, making YC one of the most prolific backers of drug discovery and delivery innovation globally.

40 of these companies are currently active. 1 have gone public. VCBacked tracks verified founder contact information, team sizes, and company status for every YC drug discovery and delivery startup.

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