Microfluidics Startups funded by Y Combinator (YC) 2026
May 2026
Browse 3 of the top Microfluidics startups funded by Y Combinator.
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Persist AIActive • 6 employees • Woodland, CA, USAW2023It takes 5 years for pharma to develop long lasting drug injections for chronic diseases like cancer and diabetes. Persist uses AI-driven automation to reduce formulation development time down to 2 years, a ~50% reduction.machine-learningroboticsmicrofluidicsnanotechnologytherapeutics
Astek DiagnosticsActive • 5 employees • Baltimore, MD, USAS2021Astek Diagnostics is building a platform (Eugris) that guides physicians in prescribing appropriate antibiotics for patients with bacterial sepsis in one hour. It is done by detecting the oxygen consumption of the bacteriamicrofluidicsmedical-devices
Indee LabsActive • 5 employees • Berkeley, CA, USAW2017Intracellular delivery is the most problematic step in T cell immunotherapy discovery, development and manufacturing. Indee Labs is developing a non-viral intracellular delivery system based on microfluidic vortex shedding (µVS) to rapidly deliver nucleic acids, proteins and gene editing complexes to patient and donor T cells with minimal perturbation.gene-therapymicrofluidicscell-therapy