YC Spring 2026 (P26) founder

Nisha Gopal

Founder of AbInitio Bio, The Intelligence layer for Drug Manufacturing

Company

Nisha Gopal is listed as a founder of AbInitio Bio. Abinitio Bio builds foundation models for biomanufacturing, validated against wet lab data. Our first model, Echo, predicts manufacturing outcomes more accurately than standard models, and any pharma or CDMO can adapt it to their own workflow instantly. By making process decisions that take 6-18 months today in hours, we help teams avoid the cost of delay on a single program.

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  1. LinkedIn

    Just wrapped Y Combinator P26 with Daniel Mukasa, PhD for Abinitio Bio!

    Just wrapped Y Combinator P26 with Daniel Mukasa, PhD for Abinitio Bio! The founder names Abinitio Bio, cofounder Daniel Mukasa, and Y Combinator P26 in the native post. Visible metrics: 137 likes, 137 reactions, 7 comments.

  2. LinkedIn

    I'm excited to officially share my recent career move with my network!

    I'm excited to officially share my recent career move with my network! I just wrapped up two incredible years at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard in the lab of Pardis Sabeti as a scientist, doing end-to-end pathogen surveillance in West Africa. This experience has blown up my...