Synthetic Sciences

About

We're building the infrastructure for the era of autonomous science. Our core thesis: scientific foundation models with real research "taste" require two things, built in parallel. A product that captures high-quality organic research-process data at scale, and the training and research to turn that data into models with genuine scientific "taste". We're building both.

Founders

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  Ishaan Gangwani· Founder

  International Olympiad in Artificial Intelligence 2025 (HM). USACO Platinum division (top 0.01% of competitive programmers globally). Prev: IOAI '25; Z-Fellows; Emergent Ventures

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  Aayam Bansal· Founder

  Built COVID-19 helpline infrastructure for Indian govt serving 50k+ people daily Patented (US, SG, IND) and Sold Orthopaedic AISock for 5-figures at 17 Published at NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AAAI, CVPR & other A* conferences Prev: aisock (Acq.), Z-Fellows, Emergent Ventures

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Product launches · 1 launch

• Synthetic Sciences – AI Co-Scientists for End-to-End Scientific Research ↗▲ 20Feb 26, 2026

  Cursor for Scientific Research.

Change history · 5 recorded

1. July 12, 2026
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