Reticular YC Application
Reticular went through Y Combinator in the Fall 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
- Fall 2024
- Industry
- HealthcareDrug Discovery and Delivery
- Team size
- 2
- Status
- Active
- Launched
- 2024
Founders
John YangFounder
What Reticular does
Reticular helps pharma companies discover drugs with AI models like AlphaFold by making them steerable, just like you can prompt LLMs. Today, limited validation data means companies spend millions on failed experiments trying to steer these models through trial and error. We’re piloting our AI interpretability technology with early-stage biotechs and scaling rapidly. Just a week after our pivot, we identified the first interpretable features ever found in protein models, allowing precise control over biological functions. Nithin and John met competing in Biology Olympiads before spending 4 years as roommates at MIT publishing ML/bio research in NeurIPS and Nature. We believe biological models encode far more information than anyone is currently using - our goal is to unlock this potential.
Reticular's YC application, reconstructed
Y Combinator application
Reticular, Fall 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
Reticular
Interpretable AI for drug discovery
We build AI interpretability tools that make protein models like AlphaFold steerable. Our product lets pharma scientists find the exact features in protein models that control biological functions, helping them design drugs more efficiently without wasting millions on trial-and-error experiments.
We live in San Francisco, CA, and plan to base the company here after YC as well.
San Francisco is where we are based with access to biotech and AI communities, and that proximity will help us work closely with early-stage biotechs and pharma partners.
21 more answers in the full application
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is this the real Reticular YC application?
No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Reticular's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Reticular would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.
What YC batch was Reticular in?
Reticular was part of the Y Combinator Fall 2024 batch.
Who founded Reticular?
Reticular was founded by John Yang.
What does Reticular do?
Interpretable AI for drug discovery
How do I read the full reconstructed application?
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