Aster
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About Aster
YC company profile
Automating open-ended research.
Aster is the first autonomous research lab — thousands of AI research agents orchestrated in parallel toward a single goal. We're on a mission to automate open-ended research: research that defines its own problems before it can answer them. The future doesn't wait to be defined by benchmarks. Neither do we.
- YC batch: Spring 2026
- Founded: 2026
- Team size: 2
- Location: San Francisco
- Country: US
- Status: Active
- Industry: B2B
- Stage: Early
- YC partner: Harj Taggar
Founders
Emmett Bicker — Founder/CEO
Hey! I'm Emmett, I moved to SF when I was 18 to train large language models at Magic, and I just left to start my own company. I've been teaching myself machine learning since I was 15.
I'm making tools that use AI to accelerate science at www.asterlab.ai. My ultimate vision for Aster is a system that will automate ten years of research over a single week.
Source: Y Combinator · Retrieved 2026-11-02. Company information is self-reported on YC.