📝 Bindwell raises $6M

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Bindwell has raised $6 million in seed funding, a remarkable milestone for a company born when two teenage founders walked into Paul Graham’s backyard with an idea the agriculture industry didn’t want and walked out with a business model the legendary investor personally backed. The startup, founded by 18-year-old Tyler Rose and 19-year-old Navvye Anand, is reinventing pesticide discovery by ditching the legacy “sell AI tools to agrochemical giants” model and instead using its own high-performance AI suite — including Foldwell, PLAPT, and APPT — to design entirely new pesticide molecules in-house and license the resulting IP. With pesticide use doubling over the past 30 years even as 40% of crops are still lost to pests annually, Bindwell has bet that AI-driven, target-based molecule design can break the cycle of resistance that plagues traditional chemistry, and early traction suggests the industry agrees: the company is already testing molecules in its San Carlos lab, preparing its first licensing deals, and drawing global interest from major agrochemical players in India, China, and beyond.

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