Bindwell

Bindwell is building neural networks to replace an entire wet lab.

Manufacturing and industrialY Combinator

Latest funding

$6M Seed · November 13, 2025

Led by General Catalyst · Source: techcrunch.com

Total raised: $6.5M* across 2 sourced rounds

All 2 rounds ↓

Website: bindwell.ai.

GitHub: Bindwell.

LinkedIn: bindwell.

Category: Manufacturing and industrial.

Sectors: Industrials, Agriculture.

Stage: Seed.

Based in: San Francisco, United States.

Total raised: $6.5M* in 2 sourced rounds.

Last round: Nov 13, 2025 · 364 days ago.

Team: 24 people on the team page.

On Recent Funding since: Sep 28, 2026.

Signals

Website registeredNov 11, 2024 (2 years old)

About Bindwell

Their wet lab in San Carlos conducts high-throughput assays that generate training data for our models. This approach—scaling computation and data rather than relying on manual design—is the fastest path to developing new pesticides and follows the teachings of Richard Sutton's The Bitter Lesson.

Funding rounds

November 13, 2025
Seed · $6M
GGeneral Catalyst (lead)
Source: techcrunch.com
November 11, 2024
Website created
Date unknown
Round · $500K*
YY Combinator
Source: ycombinator.com

Founders and team

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Tyler Rose Founder, CEO

LinkedIn · source: foundertrace.com
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Navvye Anand Founder

LinkedIn · source: foundertrace.com

Investors

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Sources and API

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