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YC Drug Discovery and Delivery startups

59 Y Combinator companies in Drug Discovery and Delivery, 8 of them from the last four batches. Its share of recent batches is 1%, up from 0.5% in the four batches before. About 62% are AI companies by YC’s tags.

Signal
Active
Since 2025
11 vs 11 in 2023–24
Acquired or public
12%
Listed as inactive
6%

Share of each batch

Drug Discovery and Delivery companies as a share of each YC batch since 2015.

Newest entrants

Of 34 Drug Discovery and Delivery companies from batches up to 2021, YC lists 3 as acquired, 1 as public, 28 as active and 2 as inactive.

  • Atlas Discovery S26 · AI-native pharma company
  • Gamgee S26 · Curing cancer. Starting with dogs.
  • TareBio S26 · Vaccines for any cancer or infection in weeks.

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59 companies

  • Atlas Discovery

    AI-native pharma company

    AI
    Summer 2026Drug Discovery and Delivery3San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Gamgee

    Curing cancer. Starting with dogs.

    AI
    Summer 2026Drug Discovery and Delivery2San Francisco, CA, USA
  • TareBio

    Vaccines for any cancer or infection in weeks.

    Summer 2026Drug Discovery and Delivery1San Francisco, CA, USA
  • AbInitio Bio

    The Intelligence layer for Drug Manufacturing

    Spring 2026Drug Discovery and Delivery2Boston, MA, USA
  • CellType

    The agentic drug company. We simulate human biology.

    Winter 2026Drug Discovery and Delivery5New York City, NY, USA
  • Ditto Biosciences

    Evolutionary intelligence for autoimmune disease

    Winter 2026Drug Discovery and Delivery4San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Origin

    AI and Data for Cancer Therapeutics

    AI
    Winter 2026Drug Discovery and Delivery8San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Strand AI

    Multimodal foundation models to predict uncollected patient biology

    Winter 2026Drug Discovery and Delivery2San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Exonic

    Exonic is an AI-native cell and gene therapeutics company.

    Fall 2025Drug Discovery and Delivery3San Francisco, CA, USA
  • b12 Labs

    Making hard molecules for Pharma and Biotech

    AI
    Summer 2025Drug Discovery and Delivery3San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Convexia

    The world's first AI-maximalist pharma company

    AI
    Summer 2025Drug Discovery and Delivery4San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Ångström AI

    Gen AI molecular simulations that reproduce wetlab results

    AI
    Summer 2024Drug Discovery and Delivery5San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Biocartesian

    Converting biology into digital molecular maps

    Summer 2024Drug Discovery and Delivery2Philadelphia, PA, USA
  • Nanograb

    Deliver genes to any cell with AI

    AI
    Summer 2023Drug Discovery and Delivery5London, England, United Kingdom
  • Olio Labs

    Combination therapeutics for the world's toughest diseases

    Summer 2023Drug Discovery and Delivery5Remote
  • Adventris Pharmaceuticals

    Adventris makes cancer vaccines

    Winter 2023Drug Discovery and Delivery7Baltimore, MD, USA
  • Diffuse Bio

    Generative AI for protein design

    AI
    Winter 2023Drug Discovery and Delivery10San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Invitris

    Creating new protein-based drugs at scale

    Winter 2023Drug Discovery and Delivery6Munich, BY, Germany
  • Lavo Life Sciences

    AI for drug formulation

    AI
    Winter 2023Drug Discovery and Delivery3Inactive
  • Miracle

    Accelerate clinical trials with real-time, actionable insights

    Winter 2023Drug Discovery and Delivery7San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Novelcare

    Empowering every doctor and every patient to participate in research

    AI
    Winter 2023Drug Discovery and Delivery5New York City, NY, USA
  • Persist AI

    Developing long-lasting drug formulations 50% faster

    AI
    Winter 2023Drug Discovery and Delivery6Sacramento, CA, USA
  • Quinn

    Your biopharma team, from molecule design to portfolio strategy

    AI
    Summer 2022Drug Discovery and Delivery5San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Rosebud Biosciences

    Growing micro-organs to find new drugs

    AI
    Winter 2022Drug Discovery and Delivery3San Francisco, CA, USA

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