Atlas Discovery launch: what they're building and where to launch next
What they're building
AI-native pharma company
Batch
Y Combinator Summer 2026
Industry
Healthcare
Team size
3
Based
San Francisco, CA, USA
Founders
- Shaamil Karim · Founder/CEO
- Sanjukta Bhattacharya · Founder
- Christian Gensbigler · Founder
Atlas Discovery on the record
What they shipped
- Its own site describes it as: "Foundation models of patient drug response — trained on pre-clinical and clinical data to design trials that succeed, rescue written-off drugs, and bring once-impossible medicines within reach." (source)
Who is behind it
- Shaamil Karim, Founder/CEO: Excited about AI for predictive biology (source)
- Sanjukta Bhattacharya, Founder: excited about making biology a tractable problem (source)
- Christian Gensbigler, Founder: Previously MTS at Origin Bio (YC w26), theoretical biology at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, math at Dartmouth (source)
Timeline
- 2026: founded, per its YC profile. (source)
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- Rasyn: Making chemicals 100,000x faster
- RonanRx Inc.: Full Stack Pharmaceutical Company for Personalized Peptides and GLP-1s
- TareBio: Vaccines for any cancer or infection in weeks.
Where else to launch Atlas Discovery
- Product Hunt ↗
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- Indie Hackers Forum ↗Audience: IndieHackers; bootstrapped solo founders sharing revenue and behind-the-scenes
- The Next AI ↗
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