Startuply.vc · May 2026
Profiles the startup, its founders, the $500K YC seed round, and its early-stage push to automate the full research workflow.
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Thesis is a San Francisco-based, YC-backed AI research company building Darwin/Thesis Cloud—an autonomous AI R&D platform that helps research teams plan experiments, train models, evaluate results, and iterate in a recursive improvement loop.
Primary product
Darwin / Thesis Cloud, an autonomous AI R&D platform for ML research and experiment orchestration.
Founded
2025
Headquarters
560 20th St, San Francisco, CA 94107, United States
Team size
1-10
Industry
Research Services
Sub-industry
AI research infrastructure / AI R&D automation
Offices
0 jobs at Thesis
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Business model
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$500K
Latest round
Seed · Dec 2025
Latest amount
$500K
Dec 2025 · Y Combinator
Investors
Research-first and execution-heavy: the company emphasizes exceptional, dauntless hires, first-principles problem solving, minimal supervision, and moving fluidly between research and engineering.
Compensation
A YC job listing showed Member of Technical Staff compensation at about $120K-$170K plus roughly 0.75%-2.00% equity, San Francisco full-time.
Pricing
Free tier with daily token limits, plus pay-as-you-go/monthly billed usage for higher-volume teams.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
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Startuply.vc · May 2026
Profiles the startup, its founders, the $500K YC seed round, and its early-stage push to automate the full research workflow.
Fondo · Feb 2026
Launch write-up that summarizes Thesis's mission, founders, MLE-Bench result, and collaboration-oriented go-to-market.
Y Combinator on LinkedIn · Nov 2025
YC post highlighting the company’s MLE-Bench result and founder background, and framing Thesis as an applied research lab for AI R&D.
Y Combinator
Official YC launch page describing Thesis as an applied AI lab accelerating AI discovery, with claims about faster/cheaper research and its MLE-Bench result.
Thesis Labs
Company research page with updates and the MLE-Bench announcement.