We raised $6M to discover new pesticides with AI. Seed co-led by General Catalyst and A Capital, with participation from SV Angel, Paul Graham, Character Capital, Liquid 2, Basis Set, and others. We’re YC W25. Little-known fact: farmers today use 2x more pesticide than they did

We are all insanely lucky that we all didn't get fired and aren't racist :)

Glad to see folks going after this problem, something that has impacted my family and people around them Lore time! I come from a family of farmers. I spent many summer breaks picking weeds, cotton bulbs, and harvesting wheat. I have seen the scary side of failing pesticides and

Age is just a number. You can just do things.

SO proud

I met an 18yo startup founder from India who dropped out of Caltech to build foundation models that synthesize better, safer pesticides. Paul Graham himself tweeted about it. Agency is the only moat. 99% of kids will never read a book and 1% are super-geniuses.

i hope more people work on hard problems like this

Navvye is pushing the frontier so farmers can focus on feeding our nation. Need one say more.

You know, when the team is just casually faster than AlphaFold it is the sign to go work with them. 👏amazing round👏 (I have some fun stories about how remarkable @navvye and @tylerarose0 are that I will share some time. Genuinely much different than most founders...)

Tyler and Navvye are some of the most impressive young founders I’ve worked with at YC. They’ve built custom models that are 4x faster than AlphaFold to develop new, safer pesticides, something the big incumbents haven’t been able to do. Congrats @tylerarose0 @navvye!

I've spent my whole life trying to make absence mean something. When I was five, the piano bench became my world. Practicing eight, ten hours a day wasn't punishment; I learned early to speak love through sacrifice. Every practice session was also a choice to say no. No to

@navvye @ycombinator @tylerarose0 Your story is inspirational Navvye and can’t wait to see you continue to crush it

Congratulations to Bindwell on raising their $6m seed! The acceleration of pesticide resistance is a growing challenge in agriculture, and Bindwell is reinventing pesticide discovery with AI. Excited to support @navvye, @tylerarose0, and the team!

One of the things I love about these founders is how genuinely committed they are to discovering pesticides that are safer for farmers. Startups often talk about making the world better, but I can tell you this was their concern from the very start.

so many young founders who grew up in india and went to college in the US doing absolutely incredible things. not an investor but v v sick to see!

@navvye and I first spoke in Aug 2024 after we got the WTFund Fellowship. Four months later, I met him in person in Delhi and he’d raised his first million. A few months after that I meet him in SF and he's raised another five. Proud beyond words. Bullish.

Navvye is the smartest, most humble person I know. Extremely bullish!!

Insane that they’re just a couple of 18 year olds. Agency is all you need

A huge shout out to my co-founder @tylerarose0, and all our wonderful investors! @yuris @neerajarora @Liquid2V @svangel @CharacterVC @aaron_epstein @GuptaAnkitV @matthewriley and @paulg!

Congrats to @tylerarose0, @navvye and Bindwell on their $6M seed! Bindwell is developing safer, targeted pesticides in-house that actually work, using custom AI models that are 4x faster than AlphaFold and can screen billions of molecules. https://t.co/eEh3ZnMdSl