YC Summer 2026 (S26) company

Illume Labs

24/7 Personal Health & Longevity Companion

About Illume Labs

Illume is a 24/7 AI personal health & longevity companion that connects your wearables, blood panels, and genomic data to text you personalized and actionable insights. We pull in your health data and fuse it into one secure model. You get daily text updates on what changed, what it means, and what to do next; conversational health Q&A like "What should I do to improve my bloodwork?"; cross-data trend detection that catches patterns individual platforms miss; and a full platform to dig deeper, explore your health data, and text your Illume agent anytime. We're 3 MIT grads & friends, with experience at Windsurf, MIT CSAIL, Eli Lilly, & the Broad Institute.

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    Introducing Illume, your personalized health companion you can text anytime, anywhere.

    Introducing Illume, your personalized health companion you can text anytime, anywhere. Today, we’re tracking more about our bodies than ever before - our nutrition, sleep, workouts, and even biomarkers. These signals are scattered across apps, wearables, dashboards, and lab

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    Dinner with PG today! Here are some things I learned: 1.

    Dinner with PG today! Here are some things I learned: 1. 10% week on week growth is the most important target. if you can sustain it, it’s hard to fail and narrows the problem (also helps you ignore everything that doesn’t move this growth rate) 2. Many great companies have a...

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    yc after dark https://t.co/IpMK9Eccq4

    yc after dark https://t.co/IpMK9Eccq4

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    got to hear from @bscholl from @boomsupersonic today & learn ab the journey to achieving supersonic flight (a plane traveling faster than the speed of sound) some things i learn...

    got to hear from @bscholl from @boomsupersonic today & learn ab the journey to achieving supersonic flight (a plane traveling faster than the speed of sound) some things i learn...

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    Sharing an update on @IllumeLabsInc, your personal health companion you can text, anywhere, which we've been building at @ycombinator! It connects your wearables, lab results, nutrition, and workouts, to give you personalized, actionable insights over text Sign up

    Sharing an update on @IllumeLabsInc, your personal health companion you can text, anywhere, which we've been building at @ycombinator! It connects your wearables, lab results, nutrition, and workouts, to give you personalized, actionable insights over text Sign up

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    week 4 @ycombinator founder dinner! https://t.co/yPZ0DFAgqZ

    week 4 @ycombinator founder dinner! https://t.co/yPZ0DFAgqZ

  7. Hacker News

    Illume Labs – Your 24/7 personalized health companion

    Illume Labs – Your 24/7 personalized health companion

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    another week another YC founder dinner

    another week another YC founder dinner