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Molagri launch: what they're building and where to launch next

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What they're building

Resistance free pesticides.

Batch
Y Combinator Summer 2026
Industry
Industrials
Team size
4
Based
Toronto, ON, Canada

Founders

molagri.com ↗

See their funding details ↗

Molagri on the record

What they shipped

  • From its YC profile: Molagri develops safer, more effective pesticides for agriculture. We design biopesticides that hit a precise molecular target unique to pest insects, knocking out pests while sparing pollinators, beneficial insects, and the wider ecosystem. By modeling how pests are likely to evolve, we stay a step ahead of resistance, keeping our products effective against the pests of today and tomorrow. The higher efficacy and biobased production will also contribute to emissions reductions in both manufacturing and field use. (source)
  • Its own site describes it as: "Molagri engineers biology into precise, biopesticide-based crop protection — better tools for the people moving agriculture forward." (source)

Who is behind it

  • Zaky Hassan, Founder/CEO: Zaky is a protein biochemist and viral structural biologist who has characterized mechanisms of antibody neutralization in human pathogenic coronaviruses. He has an undergraduate degree in Biochemistry (Honours BSc) and graduate training in Biochemistry (PhD candidate) from the University of Toronto. He was awarded $130K+ in fellowships, and published twice in Nature Communications. (source)
  • Min Jin, Founder: Min is a viral structural biologist and protein biochemist, and the current world record holder for the highest resolution structure of a coronavirus spike protein in the Protein Data Bank (1.68 Å). She has an undergraduate degree in Biophysics (Honours BSc) and graduate training in Biochemistry (PhD candidate) from the University of Toronto and she has published in Nature Microbiology and Nature Communications. (source)

Timeline

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

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Where else to launch Molagri

  • Indie Hackers Forum ↗
    Self-promotion allowed
    Audience: IndieHackers; bootstrapped solo founders sharing revenue and behind-the-scenes
  • BetaList ↗
    Self-promotion allowedPaid
    Audience: Directory listing surface; cold readers scanning categories
  • CoFoundersLab ↗
    Self-promotion allowed
    Audience: Directory listing surface; cold readers scanning categories
  • Hacker News (Show HN) ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Hacker News readers; engineers, technical founders, infra-curious people
  • Invincible Product Hunters (Global) ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Telegram channel readers; URL-first, attention-light
  • Launching Next ↗
    Self-promotion allowedFree, with paid options
    Audience: Directory listing surface; cold readers scanning categories
  • LaunchPedia ↗
    Self-promotion allowed
    Audience: Directory listing surface; cold readers scanning categories
  • MicroLaunch ↗
    Self-promotion allowedFree, with paid options
    Audience: Directory listing surface; cold readers scanning categories

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