Mindstate Design Labs
YC S21 · Active · Programmable biology company for psychoactive effect design
Competitors
| Company | Category | Status | Program |
|---|---|---|---|
 Output BiosciencesShared: biotech, biology, molecularActiveAI | AI | Active | YCS21 |
 Felix BiotechnologyShared: biotech, programmable, designInactiveOther | Other | Inactive | YCW20 |
 Torpedo TherapeuticsShared: closed loop, neurotechnology, biotechActiveOther | Other | Active | YCW22 |
 BiocartesianShared: biotech, biology, molecularActiveOther | Other | Active | YCS24 |
 Parallel BioShared: biotech, biology, humanActiveAI | AI | Active | YCS21 |
Adjacent
| Company | Category | Status | Program |
|---|---|---|---|
 Diffuse BioShared: biotech, design, buildingActiveAI | AI | Active | YCW23 |
 EpinomaShared: biotech, biologyActiveOther | Other | Active | YCS21 |
 Talus BioShared: biotech, effect, humanActiveOther | Other | Active | YCS21 |
 Ångström AIShared: biotech, molecular, clinicalActiveAI | AI | Active | YCS24 |
 Numerion LabsShared: biotech, biology, labsActiveAI | AI | Active | YCW15 |
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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
- 1h ago
YC tags: Artificial Intelligence, Hard Tech, Neurotechnology, Biotech, AI
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.
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