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Mantis
ActiveDigital Twins of humans
W26·Winter 2026·B2B·New York City, NY, USA·Team of 3·Founded 2025
About
Mantis is a digital twin company that combines LLMs with high-fidelity physics simulations in order to convert rare and difficult-to-access human behavior data into predictive models.
Founders
Georgia Witchel· FounderI'm an Ex-elite ice climber turned repeat computer science / biomedical founder. After bringing climbing to an Olympic stage (Lilihammer 2016), breaking 8 world records, and developing the sport of ice climbing, I dropped out of high school, got a degree in CS from Harvey Mudd, was a founding engineer for a sports tech company, founded a YC company (Louiza Labs), and earned a master's in Bioengineering.
Product launches · 1 launch
Mantis encodes biological and clinical meaning directly into reusable datasets