Inscrição YC de Rhizome AI

Winter 2026Active

Rhizome AI passou pela Y Combinator no batch Winter 2026 como uma empresa B2B. Abaixo: o que a empresa faz, quem a fundou e sua inscrição para a YC, reconstruída pergunta por pergunta no formulário real da YC.

Batch YC: Winter 2026
Indústria: B2B
Tamanho da equipe: 1
Status: Active
Lançada: 2026

Fundadores

Chetan MishraFounder

O que Rhizome AI faz

It takes 500,000 days of office work to bring a drug to market. We want to make it 5. To get there, we need agents doing most of the work. Today, our research agent is the best way to know what the FDA thinks. Users ask a question and get an answer backed by up to 1,000 documents, where each statement has a citation. It’s the best because we have the best retrieval engine. We’ve tuned it on our life science-specific dataset, and we find what others miss. As more teams use Rhizome, we gain more data on what regulatory professionals actually need, which makes retrieval even better. This flywheel is how we become the retrieval engine that powers all human and agent work in life sciences. Chetan started his career as a research engineer, but quickly realized he enjoyed building more than research. He joined EvolutionaryScale as their sole founding product engineer, launching their developer-scientist platform and scaling to tens of thousands of users and billions of API calls. He was also #16 at Instabase helping banks with document processing, closing $7m as the technical closer. Agents can do magical things today, but most in life sciences only use them to edit emails. Agents are missing the context they need to 100x the number of drugs we can bring to market. Rhizome AI is focused on that critical problem.

Inscrição YC de Rhizome AI, reconstruída

Inscrição Y Combinator

Rhizome AI, lote Winter 2026. As verdadeiras perguntas do formulário, respondidas com dados públicos.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Rhizome AI

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Agent Platform for Life Sciences

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

We built a research agent that helps regulatory professionals understand FDA guidance by answering their questions with citations from up to 1,000 relevant documents. It's powered by a retrieval engine tuned specifically on life science datasets that finds regulatory information others miss. Our product aims to automate much of the work involved in navigating drug approval processes.

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

I live in New York City and the company is based there and remotely distributed.

Explain your decision regarding location.

New York is a major life sciences hub, and remote lets us access talent and customers globally. This fits our need to stay close to regulatory experts and life sciences teams while keeping flexibility.

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Perguntas Frequentes

Esta é a inscrição real da YC de Rhizome AI?

Não. A Y Combinator mantém as inscrições submetidas em privado. Esta é uma reconstrução: as perguntas reais do formulário da YC, respondidas a partir dos dados públicos de Rhizome AI (notas de lançamento, históricos de fundadores, descrição do produto). Mostra como uma empresa como Rhizome AI se apresentaria à YC, não o texto que eles submeteram.

Em qual batch da YC Rhizome AI esteve?

Rhizome AI fez parte do batch Winter 2026 da Y Combinator.

Quem fundou o Rhizome AI?

O Rhizome AI foi fundado por Chetan Mishra.

O que o Rhizome AI faz?

Agent Platform for Life Sciences

Como eu leio o application completo reconstruído?

Crie uma conta gratuita no Round Funded. A versão completa de 26 respostas do application do Rhizome AI, e de todos os outros lotes do YC, está no YC Insights.