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Origin

AI and Data for Cancer Therapeutics

Y CombinatorWinter 2026ActiveHealthcareDrug Discovery and Delivery

What they do

Problem

Pharma and AI companies lack large, high-quality patient-derived single-cell datasets to accurately evaluate how cancers respond to drugs and genetic therapies.

Solution

Origin builds and licenses a large patient-derived cancer single-cell dataset that measures responses to drugs and genetic medicines under DNA switch control.

Who it's for

Pharmaceutical companies and AI-driven life science organizations that license datasets for oncology drug discovery and development.

Founders

Yash Rathod
Founder

CEO @ Origin | Computer Science @ UIUC, Computer Vision and Reinforcement Learning Research, First Prize 2022 OpenCV AI Research Competition.

Malhar Bhide
Founder

CTO @ Origin | Prev: Computer Science @ UIUC, ML Research @ Wadhwani AI, Automorphic (YC S23). Published disease modeling research done in high school in Nature Scientific Reports.

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