Synthetic Sciences YC Application

Winter 2026Active

Synthetic Sciences went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2026 batch as a B2B 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: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2026

Founders

Ishaan GangwaniFounder
Aayam BansalFounder

What Synthetic Sciences does

We're building the infrastructure for the era of autonomous science. Our core thesis: scientific foundation models with real research "taste" require two things, built in parallel. A product that captures high-quality organic research-process data at scale, and the training and research to turn that data into models with genuine scientific "taste". We're building both.

Synthetic Sciences's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Synthetic Sciences, Winter 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Synthetic Sciences

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Foundation Models for Scientific Research

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

We're building both a product and the underlying research to create scientific foundation models that capture authentic research process data. Our product collects high-quality organic research data at scale, letting us train models that have genuine scientific 'taste' - they understand how real scientists work and think, not just raw data patterns. This infrastructure aims to power autonomous science workflows.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and plan to base the company here after YC as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we are now, close to top AI talent and scientific research communities, which makes it the obvious place to build and scale Synthetic Sciences.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Synthetic Sciences YC application?

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