Yoneda Labs YC Application

Winter 2024Active

Yoneda Labs 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: 3
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Michał Mgeładze-ArciuchFounder
Jan OborilFounder
Daniel VlasitsFounder

What Yoneda Labs does

Yoneda Labs provides software to help chemists optimise reactions. When chemists make a drug or a material, we help them figure out the best reaction parameters such as temperature, concentration and catalyst. When Jan was working at chemical labs, he experienced the struggle of spending weeks guessing reaction conditions. We then started experimenting with ML to speed up the process. Now, as a team of three friends from the University of Cambridge, we’ve spent the last month combining our domain expertise in Computer Science, Machine Learning and Chemistry to develop state of the art models for reaction optimisation. Although ML is becoming well established in other fields, current chemical models generalise poorly and require lots of programming experience. We make our models easily accessible to chemists in the lab. Finding the right conditions quickly allows pharmaceutical companies to test more drugs, and finding better optima makes manufacturing process cheaper and more environmentally friendly.

Yoneda Labs's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Yoneda Labs, Winter 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Yoneda Labs

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Foundation Model for Chemical Manufacturing

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

We make software that helps chemists optimise reaction parameters like temperature, concentration, and catalyst. Our models speed up the process of finding reaction conditions that usually takes weeks by combining machine learning expertise with practical chemistry experience.

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.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco gives us access to technical talent and industry connections critical for building our product and selling to pharmaceutical and chemical companies.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Yoneda Labs YC application?

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