About
Ivan Vrkic is a co-founder of CellType, a drug discovery company. He studied machine learning at Yale and EPFL, contributed to Cell2Sentence research published at ICML, and previously led foundation model training at a biotech startup and developed software for CERN's Large Hadron Collider.
Co-Founder at CellTypeYC W26
Intro paths
YC
Ivan went through Y Combinator (Winter 2026) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
GP
Their group partner at YC was Ankit Gupta, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran CellType's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Ivan can intro founders to CellType's investors below.
CellType's investors · 3
Co-founders at CellType
DV
David van DijkCo-Founder & CEO
Experience
- CellType (YC W26)Co-Foundercurrent2026 — present
- Yale UniversityResearcher, Machine Learningcurrent2023 — presentUnited States
- Advanced SiliconResearcher, Machine Learning2023 — 2024Switzerland
- EPFLGraduate Student Researcher, Machine Learning and Computer Vision2022 — 2023Switzerland
- SiemensSoftware Engineer2021 — 2022
Skills & more
Machine LearningComputer ScienceLarge Language Models (LLM)Python (Programming Language)
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Ivan Vrkic?
- Ivan Vrkic is a co-founder of CellType, a drug discovery company. He studied machine learning at Yale and EPFL, contributed to Cell2Sentence research published at ICML, and previously led foundation model training at a biotech startup and developed software for CERN's Large Hadron Collider.
- Where does Ivan Vrkic work?
- Ivan Vrkic is Co-Founder of CellType.
- What companies did Ivan Vrkic found?
- Ivan Vrkic founded CellType.
- Where did Ivan Vrkic go to school?
- Ivan Vrkic studied at EPFL (Master's program, Computer Science); Technische Universität Wien (Master's program).
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