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CellType

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The agentic drug company. We simulate human biology.

W26·Winter 2026·Healthcare·New York City, NY, USA·Team of 2·Founded 2025

About

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.

Founders

  • David van Dijk· Co-Founder & CEO

    Co-Founder & CEO of CellType (W26). Yale Professor, 11,000+ citations. Built biological foundation models with Google. Building the agentic drug company.

  • Ivan Vrkic· Co-Founder

    Co-Founder @ CellType (W26). ML @ Yale & EPFL. Building the next-generation agentic drug company. Co-developed our core technology Cell2Sentence at Yale and published at ICML. Previously led large-scale foundation model training at a biotech startup and built software to control CERN's Large Hadron Collider.

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