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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
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
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
Sixfold Bioscience	W18	Delivering RNA therapies.	Active	London, England, United Kingdom	27	George Foot, Anna Perdrix Rosell, Anna Perdrix Rosell	Reveal
Helix Nanotechnologies	W17	Next-generation mRNA platform to solve cancer, COVID and climate.	Active	Boston, MA, USA; Cambridge, MA, USA	22	Nikolai Eroshenko, Hannu Rajaniemi	Reveal
Indee Labs	W17	Enabling T cell immunotherapy discovery, development and manufacturing	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA; Berkeley, CA, USA	5	Ryan Pawell	Reveal
Perlara	W16	Perlara: building the YC for rare disease parents	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA; Oakland, CA, USA; Remote	1	Ethan Oren Perlstein	Reveal
Numerion Labs	W15	Artificial intelligence for drug discovery.	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	67	Abraham Heifets, Alex Levy, Izhar Wallach	Reveal
Numerion Labs	W15	Artificial intelligence for drug discovery.	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	67	Alex Levy, Izhar Wallach, Abraham Heifets	Reveal
Gilgamesh Pharmaceuticals	S20	Gilgamesh Pharmaceuticals, a Clinical stage biotechnology company…	Active	New York, NY, USA	15	JONATHAN SPORN, Andrew Kruegel, Dalibor Sames	Reveal
Gilgamesh Pharmaceuticals	S20	Gilgamesh Pharmaceuticals, a Clinical stage biotechnology company…	Active	New York City, NY, USA; New York, NY, USA; Remote	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
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; Remote	2	Uri Lopatin	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
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
Verge Genomics	S15	We use human data and AI to develop better drugs faster.	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	50	Alice Zhang	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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