Zaky Hassan

founder and ceo @molagri (YC S26) | phd candidate @uoftmedicine 👨🏾‍🔬

[Paul S. Conyngham @paul_conyngham]

I lost my dog because we could not build her next mRNA cancer vaccine fast enough

Today we are announcing a $4M seed led by @foundersfund to change that.

[Zaky Hassan @zakyhassan]

@paul_conyngham @foundersfund Congrats Paul!

[Radley @RadleyAI]

Radiology is in crisis. More software won't fix it.

So we're building Radley, the first AI-native radiology practice. We're acquiring a practice and have reached $4.3M in annualized revenue.

[Zaky Hassan @zakyhassan]

@RadleyAI Super exciting!

[Zaky Hassan @zakyhassan]

This is next level 🛩️

[Yousef @yousefhll]

We learned how to fly a plane to tell SF one thing.

Introducing the Vendo (YC S26) Full-Stack Agentic Interface. A production-ready agent for your users with everything they need.

It takes real actions for your users. And it can even build whole new features, micro-apps, and automations, right on top of your product.

Built-in permissioning, tool guards, user context, and more. Everything you need for a user-facing agent.

One command to install. Open source.

@runvendo @nourzahzah

[Yousef @yousefhll]

hey SF, look up!

@runvendo have a message for you in the sky ✈️✈️

[Zaky Hassan @zakyhassan]

@salemroboticshq Exciting!

[Zaky Hassan @zakyhassan]

@83sciences Exciting!

[Zaky Hassan @zakyhassan]

@EliasSchwalme @bosmeny We agree that resistance is inevitable in a static product! Our active ingredient payloads are updated to work on resistant mutants. We anticipate having to make regular updates to stay ahead of resistance, and our platform makes it possible!

[Zaky Hassan @zakyhassan]

@zachdotai @molagri @ycombinator Thanks Zach!

[Zaky Hassan @zakyhassan]

@Julian @molagri @ycombinator Thanks Julian!

[Zaky Hassan @zakyhassan]

@vesting_tv @molagri @ycombinator Thanks! We think so too!

[Tyler Bosmeny @bosmeny]

This is one of the most exciting companies I've worked with

Zaky and team are the real deal

[Zaky Hassan @zakyhassan]

@bosmeny Thanks Tyler!

[Zaky Hassan @zakyhassan]

@ycombinator @molagri Biology is amazing!

[Zaky Hassan @zakyhassan]

@yousefhll @molagri @ycombinator Thanks brother!

[Zaky Hassan @zakyhassan]

Super excited to launch @molagri! Check out our launch post to learn more!

[Molagri (YC S26) @molagri]

Molagri (@ycombinator S26) is building resistance free pesticides.

Pesticides underpin modern agriculture and food security, accounting for $80B in annual spend. Without effective pesticides, we can't grow enough food. Unfortunately, pests are developing resistance to current pesticides at a fast rate, and new pesticides aren't being developed fast enough.

Molagri is developing next-generation pesticides using engineered insect virus-like particles. We start with a virus that only infects insects, strip out its genome so it can't infect or replicate, and use the empty protein shell as a delivery vehicle.

We engineer that shell with two parts:

(1) A targeting element that recognizes a single pest species (or a set of species), which keeps the product safe for humans, pollinators, and beneficial insects. (2) A payload that kills it.

Both parts are swappable. Changing the targeting element will modify which pest it kills. Changing the payload will result in a new kill mechanism for the same pest, which is how we update the product when resistance appears.

We have signed our first grower LOI, and have more in the pipeline. We have also produced our first set of viruses for testing.

@zakyhassan and @minjinca are viral structural biology PhD lab mates from the University of Toronto who have worked on common cold coronaviruses and published in Nature Microbiology and Nature Communications. Min also holds the world record for the highest-resolution coronavirus spike structure (1.68 Å).

Learn more at https://t.co/RYO8WPwiXx

[Zaky Hassan @zakyhassan]

@spei04 super cool!