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Illume Labs launch: what they're building and where to launch next

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What they're building

24/7 Personal Health & Longevity Companion

Batch
Y Combinator Summer 2026
Industry
Healthcare
Team size
3
Based
San Francisco, CA, USA

Founders

illumelabs.ai ↗

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Illume Labs on the record

What they shipped

  • From its YC profile: Illume is a 24/7 AI personal health & longevity companion that connects your wearables, blood panels, and genomic data to text you personalized and actionable insights. We pull in your health data and fuse it into one secure model. You get daily text updates on what changed, what it means, and what to do next; conversational health Q&A like "What should I do to improve my bloodwork?"; cross-data trend detection that catches patterns individual platforms miss; and a full platform to dig deeper, explore your health data, and text your Illume agent anytime. (source)
  • Its own site describes it as: "Illume: A new lens on longevity." (source)

Who is behind it

  • Pari Latawa, Founder: Founder at Illume Labs (S26) MIT BS + MEng in CS & Biology (source)
  • Frank Lee, Founder: Founder at Illume Labs (S26). CS + Math @ MIT. Previously software engineer at Windsurf and researcher in Pulkit Agrawal Lab @ MIT. (source)
  • Jin Wong, Founder: Founder at Illume Labs (S26) Prev. MIT and Windsurf/Cognition (source)

Timeline

  1. 2026: founded, per its YC profile. (source)
  2. 2026-07-26: "Illume Labs – Your 24/7 personalized health companion" posted to Hacker News by parilatawa, 5 points and 4 comments. (source)

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