Anthrogen

We're training the next generation of protein foundation models.

Y CombinatorSummer 2024ActiveHealthcareArtificial IntelligenceDeep LearningBiotech

What they do

Problem

Protein function discovery and design is slow, expensive, and largely trial-and-error, limiting progress in therapeutics and industrial enzymes.

Solution

Anthrogen trains large protein foundation models to generate novel peptides and proteins with specified functions from sequence and structure data.

Who it's for

Biopharma companies and industrial biotechnology teams designing therapeutics and protein-based catalysts.

Founders

Ankit Singhal

Founder

Ankit is the CEO of Anthrogen. He was a Science Research Fellow and Named Scholar at Columbia (a designation reserved for the top ~10 STEM research students in each class). He has worked in both wet labs and computational labs (focusing on catalysis and structural biology/biophysics) for years. He published several first-author papers as early as high school, won and led national teams at international science/research competitions – he’s excited to lead Anthrogen’s damp lab approach.

Connor Lee

Founder

Connor is the CTO of Anthrogen. Before dropping out of Columbia as a sophomore, he was a researcher in Columbia's ROAM Lab and was the youngest ever Columbia Robotics president. He also placed 3rd Internationally for FRC and top 5 internationally for MATE ROV after over a decade of robotics experience.