Rhizome AI
Agent Platform for Life Sciences
Y CombinatorWinter 2026ActiveB2B
What they do
Problem
Life sciences teams spend enormous time on regulatory research and document-heavy knowledge work needed to bring drugs to market.
Solution
Rhizome AI provides an agent platform with a life-science-tuned retrieval engine that answers regulatory questions with citation-backed results from up to 1,000 documents.
Who it's for
Regulatory and research professionals at pharmaceutical and biotech companies who need FDA and regulatory intelligence.
Founders
Chetan Mishra
Founder
Building an agent platform for life sciences. Software engineer who's closed millions in enterprise deals - $7m in technical close at Instabase - co-author of a paper on the cover of science magazine (esm3) - first used vector db's in 2016 for image retrieval
Open roles 1
Founding Full Stack AI Engineer
Company timeline
- Founded2025
- YC batchWinter 2026
- StatusActive
- Team size1 people
- LocationNew York City, NY, USA; Remote
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