AI is spitting out more potential drugs than ever. This start-up wants to figure out which ones matter. [TechCrunch]
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But as AI models continue to spit out more candidates for potential treatments, there's an emerging bottleneck: actually characterizing all those candidates in practice, for testing and mass production. That's the goal of 10x Science, a startup founded in December 2025 that announced a $4.8 million seed round today, led by Initialized Capital and with backing from Y Combinator, Civilization Ventures, and Founder Factor. Its three founders are David Roberts and Andrew Reiter, experienced biochemists, and Vishnu Tejas, a serial founder with expertise in computer science and AI models. “When biopharma tries to create a drug candidate, they have all of these really nice prediction tools,” Roberts told TechCrunch. “You can add as many candidates as you want to the top of the funnel, but they all have to pass through this characterization process. Everything needs to be measured.” Understanding the structure of proteins is key for researchers developing biologic drugs, which are prod
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