Strand AI YC Application

Winter 2026Active

Strand AI went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2026 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: Winter 2026
Industry: HealthcareDrug Discovery and Delivery
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2026

Founders

Yue DaiFounder
Oded FalikFounder

What Strand AI does

Strand AI develops foundation models to generate missing bio-data about patients. With this imputed data, pharmaceutical companies can select better patients for their drug trials and shave months from their drug launch timelines. We’ve already trained a multimodal foundation model that integrates spatial biology modalities, beating SOTA at a fraction of the cost.

Strand AI's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Strand AI, Winter 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Strand AI

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Models predicting uncollected patient biology

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

We build foundation models that predict missing biological data about patients from spatial biology inputs. Our product helps pharma companies select better patients for drug trials by imputing data they otherwise can't or don't collect, reducing trial timelines.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and would base the company here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We're based in San Francisco because of access to AI talent and a biotech customer base; it's where we already live and work from.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Strand AI YC application?

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