Mindstate Design Labs YC Application

Summer 2021Active

Mindstate Design Labs went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2021 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 2021
Industry: HealthcareDrug Discovery and Delivery
Team size: 7
Status: Active
Launched: 2021

Founders

Dillan DiNardoFounder/CEO
Tom RayFounder

What Mindstate Design Labs does

We're making every therapeutically valuable emotion available on demand in pharmaceutical form. Our Osmanthus platform is an ensemble of AI models that synthesize the world’s largest datasets of psychoactive pharmacology and phenomenology, quantitatively pinpointing the combination of neurotransmitter receptor activity that underlies various emotional as well as cognitive and perceptual states. Our lead program MSD-001 is designed to be rapid-acting and produce heightened emotional and cognitive flexibility without hallucinations. MSD-001 is currently in human trials, and will be the base ingredient for multiple drug combination "emotions in a bottle" such as empathy, awe, clarity, or beauty.

Mindstate Design Labs's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Mindstate Design Labs, Summer 2021 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Mindstate Design Labs

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Clinical-stage AI neuroengineering platform

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

We build Osmanthus, an AI platform that maps how combinations of neurotransmitter receptor activity produce specific emotions and cognitive states. Our lead drug MSD-001 is designed to create emotional and cognitive flexibility without hallucinations and is currently in human trials. Ultimately, we want to make therapeutically valuable emotional states available on demand in pharmaceutical form.

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

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

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is the center of biotech innovation and AI talent, which makes it the best environment for building our clinical-stage neuroengineering platform.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Mindstate Design Labs YC application?

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