Tamarind Bio YC Application

Winter 2024Active

Tamarind Bio went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2024 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 2024
Industry: B2B
Team size: 15
Status: Active
Launched: 2023

Founders

Deniz KaviCo-founder & CEO
Sherry LiuFounder

What Tamarind Bio does

Tamarind Bio is a website and API which allows scientists to use computational biology tools at scale using a simple interface. On Tamarind, scientists can use ML models like AlphaFold to design and simulate molecules by simply selecting inputs instead of or setting up a high performance computing environment or dealing with DevOps. Tamarind is used by tens of thousands researchers in large pharma companies, top biotechs, and academic institutions.

Tamarind Bio's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Tamarind Bio, Winter 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Tamarind Bio

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI Inference Platform for Drug Discovery

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

We built a website and API that lets scientists run computational biology models like AlphaFold without managing HPC clusters or DevOps. Users just pick inputs to design and simulate molecules at scale.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where our biotech and AI talent is, and where many pharma and biotech partners are located. It's the natural base for what we're building.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Tamarind Bio YC application?

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