Biotech pharma

Anthrogen

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Founded 2024Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

Anthrogen is engineering post-modality biology.

Today's modalities reflect historical contingencies in biological progress, not fundamental categories. We develop the AI systems that design modular biological machines and the experimental infrastructure to instantiate them.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08
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Founders & team

Previously Arctic Capture

Company history As recorded 2026-11-08

Ankit Singhal

Founder/CEO

Ankit is the CEO of Anthrogen. He was a Science Research Fellow and Named Scholar at Columbia (a designation reserved for the top ~10 STEM research students in each class). He has worked in both wet labs and computational labs (focusing on catalysis and structural biology/biophysics) for years. He published several first-author papers as early as high school, won and led national teams at international science/research competitions – he’s excited to lead Anthrogen’s damp lab approach.

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Connor Lee

Founder/CTO

Connor is the CTO of Anthrogen. Before dropping out of Columbia as a sophomore, he was a researcher in Columbia's ROAM Lab and was the youngest ever Columbia Robotics president. He also placed 3rd Internationally for FRC and top 5 internationally for MATE ROV after over a decade of robotics experience.

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15team members reported
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Founded 2024 · Source

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Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA
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