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Mindstate Design Labs

Active · Programmable biology company for psychoactive effect design

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  • team of 7Team size · YC's directory+4.7
  • went through YCProgram · this site+4

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About Mindstate Design Labs

Mindstate Design Labs is building the closed-loop science & engineering stack for rational psychoactive effect design. Our molecular-experience interface links molecular biology to the human psychopharmacodynamic profile to convert informal constructs like clarity, presence, or motivation into high-dimensional design targets. Our clinical program is a sequence of human demonstrations that psychoactive effects can be decomposed, recombined, and synthesized. The first controlled study decomposed hallucinations from the broader hallucinogen profile; the next is designed to selectively upregulate aesthetic salience to treat anhedonia in major depressive disorder. We’re progressively digitizing the molecular interface through which biology shapes what intelligence wants.

YC batch
S21 · Summer 2021
Status, per YC
Active
Category
AI
Team size
7
Location
San Francisco, CA, USA
Checked
7h ago

YC tags: Hard Tech, Neurotechnology, Biotech, AI

Changes seen

TagsOct 19, 2026

No longer tagged Artificial Intelligence.

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Mindstate Design Labs: questions

Which YC batch was Mindstate Design Labs in?

Mindstate Design Labs was in Y Combinator's Summer 2021 batch (S21).

Is Mindstate Design Labs still active?

Y Combinator lists Mindstate Design Labs as active.

Where is Mindstate Design Labs based?

Mindstate Design Labs lists San Francisco, CA, USA as its location on YC's directory.