Application YC di CellType

Winter 2026Active

CellType ha partecipato a Y Combinator nel batch Winter 2026 come azienda Healthcare. Sotto: cosa fa l'azienda, chi l'ha fondata e la sua application a YC, ricostruita domanda per domanda nel form reale di YC.

Batch YC: Winter 2026
Settore: HealthcareDrug Discovery and Delivery
Dimensione team: 2
Stato: Active
Lanciata: 2026

Founder

David van DijkCo-Founder & CEO
Ivan VrkicCo-Founder

Cosa fa CellType

CellType is building an agentic drug company. AI agents that run the full drug discovery pipeline on top of biological foundation models that simulate human biology. Our core technology, developed with Google DeepMind, has already discovered and validated a new cancer treatment signal. We’re working with Top 10 pharma.

Application YC di CellType, ricostruita

Domanda per Y Combinator

CellType, batch Winter 2026. Le vere domande del form, risposte da dati pubblici.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

CellType

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

The agentic drug company. We simulate human biology.

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

We are building AI agents that run the entire drug discovery pipeline on top of biological foundation models that simulate human biology. Our platform can predict how drugs interact with biological systems, enabling us to discover new treatments faster and more reliably than traditional methods. We've already found and validated a new cancer treatment signal using this tech.

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

We live and work in New York City, and after YC, CellType will remain based here.

Explain your decision regarding location.

New York City has the biotech ecosystem and pharma partners we need close by. We can recruit scientists and engineers here and maintain strong relationships with top pharma companies already collaborating with us.

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Domande Frequenti

Questa è l'application YC reale di CellType?

No. Y Combinator mantiene private le application inviate. Questa è una ricostruzione: le domande del form YC reale, a cui si è risposto usando i dati pubblici di CellType (note di lancio, background dei founder, descrizione del prodotto). Mostra come un'azienda come CellType si presenterebbe a YC, non il testo che hanno inviato.