Ångström AI YC Application

Summer 2024Active

Ångström AI went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2024 batch as a Healthcare company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.

YC batch: Summer 2024
Industry: HealthcareDrug Discovery and Delivery
Team size: 5
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Javier AntoranFounder
Jose Miguel Hernandez LobatoFounder
Laurence MidgleyFounder

What Ångström AI does

Angstrom AI builds GenAI-based molecular simulations to substitute wet lab experiments in the pre-clinical drug development pipeline. We are a team of 2 PhD's and 2 Professors from the University of Cambridge who decided to start a company together after we realised how to combine breakthoughs in our research in quantum-accurate models of physics and generative AI models. Our Biotech/Pharma clients can verify the efficacy and safety of new drug candidates using our computer simulations, which match the accuracy of wet lab experiments, but are over 100x faster. We achieve this accuracy by constraining our genAI-based simulations to obey the laws of physics, avoiding the hallucinations seen in other GenAI technologies. Since joining YC, Angstrom AI has developed the first physically accurate gen-AI based simulation of multiple molecules interacting. We have published the first molecule water solubility results with accuracy within the error range of wet lab experiments. We have also kicked-off a 150K pilot project with a pharma company to apply our tech to estimating solubility in their drug development pipeline.

Ångström AI's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Ångström AI, Summer 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Ångström AI

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Gen AI molecular simulations that reproduce wetlab results

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We build generative AI-based molecular simulations that reproduce wet lab results in pre-clinical drug discovery. Our product lets biotech and pharma companies simulate molecular interactions accurately while obeying physics, cutting down experimental time by over 100x. We aim to replace slow, costly wet lab tests with fast, reliable computer models.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We currently live in San Francisco, CA, and the company will remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is a hub for biotech startups and AI talent where we already have access to early customers and partners. We want to stay here to remain close to the network and resources we rely on.

21 more answers in the full application

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Is this the real Ångström AI YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Ångström AI's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Ångström AI would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.