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Discovering new pesticides with AI

Winter 2025Founded 20244 peopleSan Francisco, CA, USA

About

We're developing better, safer pesticides in-house using custom AI models.

Founders · 2

Tyler Rose
Tyler RoseFounder

CEO @ Bindwell. Former Wolfram Research, background in ML engineering and comp bio research. Interested in using AI to solve big problems.

Navvye Anand
Navvye AnandFounder
Caltech

Founder @ Bindwell: AI Platform for Pesticide R&D. I'm passionate about bioinformatics and AI, exploring the intersection of biology & natural language processing: ex-Caltech student and World Science Scholar.

Launch

Launched on Y Combinator · Feb 2025
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We're developing better, safer pesticides using our state-of-the-art AI models.

Foldwell launches as part of Bindwell’s AI-driven pesticide discovery suite, introducing Foldwell (an AlphaFold–replacement) plus PLAPT and APPT models to speed target structure identification, protein–ligand interactions, and biopesticide screening for selecting high-specificity candidates in harmful species.

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