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YC Drug Discovery and Delivery Companies

72 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
AbInitio Bio	X26	The Intelligence layer for Drug Manufacturing	Active	Boston, MA, USA	2	Daniel Mukasa, Nisha Gopal	Reveal
CellType	W26	The agentic drug company. We simulate human biology.	Active	New York City, NY, USA	2	David van Dijk, Ivan Vrkic, David van Dijk	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 intelligence for autoimmune disease	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	3	Dennis Sun, Adair Borges, Emily Weiss	Reveal
Ditto Biosciences	W26	Evolutionary therapies for autoimmune disease	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	3	Adair Borges, Dennis Sun, Emily Weiss	Reveal
Origin	W26	AI and Data for Cancer Therapeutics	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	4	Yash Rathod, Malhar Bhide	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, Jenny Lesser Herbach	Reveal
Diffuse Bio	W23	Generative AI for protein design	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	10	Namrata Anand	Reveal
Invitris	W23	Creating new protein-based drugs at scale	Active	Munich, BY, Germany	6	Patrick Grossmann, Kilian Vogele	Reveal
Lavo Life Sciences	W23	AI for drug formulation	Inactive	—	3	Scott Swarthout, Zach Glick, Derek Metcalf	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	7	Jin Kim	Reveal
Miracle	W23	Accelerate clinical trials with real-time, actionable insights	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	6	Jin Kim	Reveal
Novelcare	W23	Empowering every doctor and every patient to participate in research	Active	New York City, NY, USA; Remote	5	Ethan Bond, Jason Marmon	Reveal
Persist AI	W23	Developing long-lasting drug formulations 50% faster	Active	Sacramento, CA, USA	6	Karthik Raman, Christopher Shelner	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, Île-de-France, France; Boston, MA, USA	40	David Delbourgo, Julien Cottineau	Reveal
Abalone Bio	W20	We create activating antibodies to treat diseases others can’t.	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	14	Richard Yu, Gustavo Pesce	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	15	Chun-Hao Huang, Christine Du	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
Dropprint Genomics	W20	The better way to run single cell genomics	Acquired	San Francisco, CA, USA	2	Rachel Gate, Meena Subramaniam, Jimmie Ye	Reveal
Felix Biotechnology	W20	We’re creating programmable therapies	Inactive	San Francisco, CA, USA	6	Robert McBride, Vivek Mutalik, Paul Turner, Natalie Ma	Reveal
General Proximity	W20	The next generation of induced-proximity medicines.	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	15	Armand Cognetta	Reveal
General Proximity	W20	The next generation of induced-proximity medicines.	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	15	Armand Cognetta	Reveal
Gamgee	S26	Scalable Personalised Cancer Treatment	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote	2	Paul Conyngham, Paul Steven Conyngham	Reveal
b12 Labs	S25	Making hard molecules for Pharma and Biotech	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	3	Zlatko Jončev, Andres Bran	Reveal
Convexia	S25	The world's first AI-maximalist pharma company	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	4	Ayaan Parikh, Rahul Vijayan	Reveal
Ångström AI	S24	Gen AI molecular simulations that reproduce wetlab results	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	5	Jose Miguel Hernandez Lobato, Laurence Midgley, Javier Antoran	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	Philadelphia, PA, USA	2	Ian Dardani, Jess Li	Reveal
Biocartesian	S24	Converting biology into digital molecular maps	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	2	Ian Dardani, Jess Li	Reveal
Nanograb	S23	Deliver genes to any cell with AI	Active	London, England, United Kingdom	5	Debesh Mandal, Christopher Lau, Shanil Panara	Reveal
Olio Labs	S23	Combination therapeutics for the world's toughest diseases	Active	Remote	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
Quinn	S22	The AI that delivers pharma R&D decisions in days, not months	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
Adaptyv	S21	We're building fully automated labs for protein engineering	Active	Lausanne, VD, Switzerland	25	Julian Englert, Daniel Nakhaee-Zadeh Gutierrez, Daniel 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 City, NY, USA; New York, NY, USA; Remote	8	Rayees Rahman, J Lee, Marcel Patek, Jason Lee	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	Programmable biology company for psychoactive effect design	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	7	Dillan DiNardo, Tom Ray	Reveal
Parallel Bio	S21	Using the immune system to cure disease	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	20	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
Talus Bio	S21	Discovering drugs that target the DNA regulome	Active	Seattle, WA, USA	16	Alex Federation, Lindsay Pino	Reveal
Exonic	F25	Exonic is an AI-native cell and gene therapeutics company.	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

XX261 WW266 WW2310 WW222 WW2010 WW185

Status Breakdown

Active66 Inactive3 Public2 Acquired1

Top Locations

San Francisco35 Boston6 New York City4 London3 New York2 Lausanne2

About YC Drug Discovery and Delivery Companies

Y Combinator has funded 72 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.

66 of these companies are currently active. 1 have been acquired. 2 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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