Ankit Singhal
FounderFounder at Anthrogen
San Francisco, California, United States
FoundedAnthrogen · YC
About
Ankit Singhal is CEO of Anthrogen and previously held a research fellowship at Columbia. He has laboratory experience in catalysis, structural biology, and biophysics, with published research from his early academic career.
Founder at AnthrogenYC S24
Intro paths
YC
Ankit went through Y Combinator (Summer 2024) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
GP
Their group partner at YC was Gustaf Alstromer — the partner who ran Anthrogen's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Ankit can intro founders to Anthrogen's investors below.
Anthrogen's investors · 4
Co-founders at Anthrogen
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Connor LeeFounder
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Vignesh KarthikCofounder
Experience
- AnthrogenCo-founder and CEOcurrent2024 — present
- Columbia UniversityResearcher - Mancia Lab2022 — 2024
- Columbia UniversityResearcher - AlQuraishi Lab2023
- University of California, San FranciscoResearch Intern2020 — 2022
- RocheStudent Researcher - Department of Process Chemistry and Catalysis2018 — 2022Basel, Switzerland
- RocheHigh School Intern2018Basel, Switzerland
Skills & more
Research1Data Analysis1Deep LearningChemistryPolitical ScienceJournalismMachine LearningPublic Speaking1C++RPythonJava
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GitSwift (Programming Language)Languages English
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- Who is Ankit Singhal?
- Ankit Singhal is CEO of Anthrogen and previously held a research fellowship at Columbia. He has laboratory experience in catalysis, structural biology, and biophysics, with published research from his early academic career.
- Where does Ankit Singhal work?
- Ankit Singhal is Founder of Anthrogen.
- What companies did Ankit Singhal found?
- Ankit Singhal founded Anthrogen.
- Where did Ankit Singhal go to school?
- Ankit Singhal studied at Columbia College, Columbia University (B.A., Biophysics); Y Combinator; Columbia University (B.A., Molecular Biophysics).
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