Yoneda Labs vs Superluminal Medicines
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AI chemical reaction optimization with 95% accuracy for drug discovery synthesis parameters; $4.5M from Khosla Ventures and YC competing to automate pharmaceutical process chemistry development.
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Yoneda Labs is a San Francisco-based AI company applying foundation models to automate chemical reaction optimization for drug discovery and pharmaceutical process development — providing chemists with AI systems that determine optimal reaction parameters (temperature, solvent, catalyst, concentration) for new chemical synthesis routes, achieving 95% accuracy in suggesting effective conditions for small-scale trials. Founded in 2023 and backed by Khosla Ventures, 468 Capital, 500 Global, and Y Combinator with $4.5 million raised including a $4 million seed round in April 2024, Yoneda Labs brings mathematical category theory foundations (the name references Yoneda's lemma in category theory) to chemistry AI.
Boston AI GPCR drug discovery with $1.3B Eli Lilly collaboration Aug 2025 for obesity/cardiometabolic; $158M total ($120M RA Capital/Insight/NVIDIA/Lilly Series A Sep 2024) with MC4R obesity program advancing to IND competing with Relay Therapeutics.
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Superluminal Medicines is a Boston-based biotechnology company — backed with approximately $158 million in total funding including a $33 million seed in 2023 and a $120 million Series A in September 2024 led by RA Capital Management with Insight Partners, NVIDIA's NVentures, and Eli Lilly — developing AI-driven small molecule drugs targeting G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), combining artificial intelligence, protein dynamics simulation, and structural biology to discover drugs for 70% of GPCRs that currently remain "undruggable" despite GPCRs representing the target class for approximately 35% of all FDA-approved drugs. In August 2025, Superluminal secured a landmark $1.3 billion collaboration agreement with Eli Lilly to discover small molecule therapeutics for obesity and cardiometabolic diseases, and is advancing its lead internal MC4R agonist program (for obesity treatment) toward IND-enabling studies with human trials expected Q4 2026. Founded in 2022.
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