Biotech pharma

Strand AI

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Founded 2025Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

Strand AI develops foundation models to generate missing bio-data about patients. With this imputed data, pharmaceutical companies can select better patients for their drug trials and shave months from their drug launch timelines. We’ve already trained a multimodal foundation model that integrates spatial biology modalities, beating SOTA at a fraction of the cost.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08

Founders & team

Yue Dai

Founder/CEO

Cofounder & CEO at Strand AI ex-Pathos AI, Enable Medicine, Microsoft Research, Element AI. Trained foundation models for biology on the largest patient dataset in existence.

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

Oded Falik

Founder/CTO

Cofounder & CTO at Strand AI Ex-Enable Medicine Building foundation models to enrich biology data and improve patient outcomes. Oded Falik, CTO, was the Tech Lead for Enable Medicine's spatial biology platform, scaling to 12B+ single-cell annotations and petabyte-scale pipelines. Programming since 8 years old, published first app on iOS app store at 11 years old.

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
2team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

Founded 2025 · Source

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