Company founded by MVHS alum Tyler Rose ’25 is accepted into Y Combinator
Summary
Bindwell a company co-founded by MVHS alum Tyler Rose 25 and CalTech freshman Navvye Anand that develops AI models to help engineer pesticides has been accepted into the Winter 2025 cohort of Y Combinator. Y Combinator is a prestigious San Francisco-based startup accelerator that provides companies it views as having potential for growth with industry connections and credibility. With his co-founder and other people he met during his time at the Wolfram summer program, Rose started a drug discovery model called PLAPT. Specifically, in relation to agriculture and pesticides industries, seeing as they have been slower to adopt AI.We have a bunch of the state-of-the-art AI models that were selling to biologists who work at agrochemical companies, because the current ones that they use are out of date and slow and not very easy to use from what we talk to them, Rose said. His counselor, Sylvia Lam, helped Rose arrange this, and he took online classes at Brigham Young University to ensure he completed the necessary credits to graduate.