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ActiveAI and Data for Cancer Therapeutics
W26·Winter 2026·Healthcare·San Francisco, CA, USA·Team of 4·Founded 2025
About
Creating the largest patient-derived cancer single-cell dataset for licensing to pharmaceutical and AI companies. These datasets are unique as they screen the effects of various drugs and genetic medicines under the control of our DNA switches.
Founders
Yash Rathod· FounderCEO @ Origin | Computer Science @ UIUC, Computer Vision and Reinforcement Learning Research, First Prize 2022 OpenCV AI Research Competition.
Malhar Bhide· FounderCTO @ Origin | Prev: Computer Science @ UIUC, ML Research @ Wadhwani AI, Automorphic (YC S23). Published disease modeling research done in high school in Nature Scientific Reports.
Product launches · 1 launch
AI designed regulatory DNA sequences to program gene expression patterns