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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

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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

  1. 2026: founded, per its YC profile. (source)

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