Infera
<!-- hacklab:yc-profile -- YC company profile Control lab instruments with natural language. Describe an experiment in plain English, and Infera turns it into a validated, instr…
About Infera
YC company profile
Control lab instruments with natural language.
Describe an experiment in plain English, and Infera turns it into a validated, instrument-ready run across the equipment your lab already uses. Infera handles the protocol logic, vendor-specific scripts, data, inventory, and institutional knowledge in one system. An AI-native compiler for the lab: one system from intent to execution.
- YC batch: Spring 2026
- Founded: 2026
- Team size: 2
- Location: San Francisco
- Country: US
- Status: Active
- Industry: Healthcare
- Stage: Early
- Tags: SaaS, B2B, Biotech, Automation, AI
- YC partner: Nicolas Dessaigne
Founders
Troy Zhang — Founder/CEO
Founder at Infera Biosystems. Prev. experience in Nobel Prize winning lab. Dual BS in Political Science and Computation and Neural Systems from Caltech.
Chloe Sow — Founder/CTO
Co-Founder of Infera (YC P26). Built research software and medical devices at Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's, Fred Hutch and PNNL. MechE + CS at Harvard.
Source: Y Combinator · Retrieved 2026-11-02. Company information is self-reported on YC.