Y Combinator portfolio AI companies

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OpenAI· San Francisco, California, United States
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first — ahead of profit.To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership.At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.
- Series unknown
- 10.5k employees
- Founded 2015
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BillionToOne· Menlo Park, California, United States
BillionToOne is a precision diagnostics company with the mission to make molecular diagnostics more accurate, efficient, and accessible. Our proprietary molecular counting platform can accurately count DNA molecules at the single-count level to help improve disease detection.
- Series D
- 839 employees
- Founded 2016
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Ginkgo Bioworks· Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Ginkgo Bioworks builds the tools that make biology easier to engineer for everyone. We offer autonomous laboratories that replace manual laboratory work with robotics in the lab, greatly improving the productivity of scientists. Ginkgo's in-house autonomous lab is also available as a "cloud lab" through our Datapoints and Solutions contract research services.
- Grant
- 516 employees
- Founded 2009
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54gene· Nigeria
54gene addresses the significant gap in the global genomics market; Nearly 90% of genetic material used in pharmaceutical research is Caucasian. Only 2% is African, despite the fact that Africans and people of African ancestry are more genetically diverse than all other world populations combined. As a result, pharmaceutical research and development is lacking the diverse data that may hold the key to medical discoveries and new healthcare solutions.
- Convertible note
- 114 employees
- Founded 2019
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Nomic Bio· Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Nomic was founded to make biology easier to measure and enable scientists to extend lives by making proteomics accessible, scalable, and routine. Powered by its proprietary nELISA® technology, Nomic delivers large-scale, quantitative, and cost-effective protein data to accelerate discovery, development, and translation. Its end-to-end service combines flexible content, expert support, and analysis-ready outputs—enabling seamless integration of proteomics across all stages of drug and biomarker development. Nomic’s mission is to make proteomics ubiquitous for modern biology.
- Series B
- 106 employees
- Founded 2017

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Ansa Biotechnologies, Inc.· Emeryville, California, United States
At Ansa Biotechnologies, we’re developing a way to synthesize DNA that will accelerate innovation in medicine, agriculture, and industrial biotechnology. Our fast, clean, and accurate enzymatic DNA synthesis process can produce gene-length molecules directly, overcoming bottlenecks of traditional DNA synthesis methods. We envision a future where our technology empowers scientists to develop solutions for the world's biggest problems in health and sustainability.Note that Ansa does not conduct any employment discussions via LinkedIn. All official Ansa career openings are exclusively listed on our website careers page.
- Series B
- 78 employees
- Founded 2018
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Miracle· San Francisco, California, United States
Pulling your hair out in clinical trials because of spreadsheet madness?You’re not alone. Most biotech teams lose weeks, if not months, to manual spreadsheet trackers, delayed insights, and inadequate vendor oversight.That’s exactly why we built Miracle.👉 Speed: Replace clunky manual trackers with an integrated platform that gets you live in just days (not weeks or months).👉 Clarity: Real-time visibility across trials, so your execs stop asking you for “one quick update” every day.👉 Proof: Clinical-stage biotechs using Miracle have already finished 3-4 months ahead of trial timelines, freeing their teams from spreadsheet hell and resolving risks as soon as they occur, not next week.If you’re a biotech exec staring down another delayed trial (or want to start your study on the right foot), Miracle can help you close the gap.📩 Message us here or reach out at https://www.miracleml.com/contactLet’s make “trial delays” something you don’t talk about next quarter.
- Seed
- 73 employees
- Founded 2022
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Planet A Foods· Krailling, Bavaria, Germany
Imagine a world without chocolate. Horrifying, right? But the supply of cocoa is endangered and chocolate is as bad as meat for our planet.We make future-proof chocolate using precision fermentation. Doing this, our chocolate is 10x more sustainable and 20% cheaper than conventional chocolate. In order to mimic the organoleptic properties of chocolate (tender, smoothly melting taste release) we are working on the flavor itself but also on replacing the cocoa butter.55 Mio lbs of chocolate are consumed every day. By 2035 we will substitute a big chunk of it through our sustainable chocolate.
- Corporate
- 73 employees
- Founded 2021
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Culture Biosciences· South San Francisco, California, United States
Culture is your bioreactor lab, in the cloud.We help scientists accelerate bioprocess development with our high-throughput bioreactor cloud lab. You design your experiment, and we execute the experiment in our lab using our 250mL bioreactors. We take care of the high-quality execution so that you can focus on developing processes. While your experiment runs in our lab, you can monitor and analyze your data in real time using our online dashboard. With Culture, get faster insights to make better, data-driven decisions.
- Series C
- 67 employees
- Founded 2016
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ZBiotics· San Francisco, California, United States
Zack Abbott, PhD microbiologist, founded ZBiotics because of the potential genetically engineered probiotics have to improve daily living. Our first product is a probiotic that helps you feel better the day after drinking alcohol. ZBiotics is leveraging its patented technology to create a whole new category of products that help our bodies deal with whatever modern life throws our way. It’s genetic engineering as it should be: transparent, responsible, and people first.
- Secondary
- 63 employees
- Founded 2016

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