Forbes · Jan 2026
Forbes 30 Under 30 profile noting Bindwell’s founders and the company’s AI-for-safer-pesticides focus.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 30, 2026
Overview
Bindwell is an AI-driven pesticide discovery company that uses proprietary foundation models and wet-lab validation to design safer, more targeted pesticides in-house and license the resulting molecules/IP to agrochemical partners.
Primary product
AI-powered pesticide discovery platform and proprietary pesticide molecules
Founded
2024
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
1-10 employees
Industry
Biotechnology Research
Sub-industry
AI-driven agricultural biotechnology / pesticide discovery
Offices
San Francisco, California, United States (HQ)
San Carlos, California, United States (wet lab)
Business model
In-house discovery of proprietary pesticide molecules
IP and molecule licensing to agrochemical companies
Wet-lab-supported AI model development
Funding
People & investors
Work & culture
Research-heavy, scrappy, mission-driven, and open-source-friendly; emphasizes first-principles computation, wet-lab validation, and building better pesticides with AI.
Product & market
Pricing
Not publicly disclosed; appears to rely on licensing and partnership deals rather than SaaS subscriptions.
Differentiators
- —Develops pesticides in-house instead of only selling tools
- —Combines AI models with an internal wet lab for training and validation
- —Targets pest-specific proteins to improve selectivity
- —Uses uncertainty quantification to reduce unreliable predictions
- —Open-sourced PLAPT and APPT
- —Claims Foldwell runs 4x faster than AlphaFold 3
Technology
Foldwell
PLAPT
APPT
Pairwell
Atomwell
uncertainty quantification
generative pipelines
high-throughput assays
Mathematica
Python
Customers
Global agrochemical companies
Crop protection companies
Biopesticide researchers and partners
Competitors
Smart-Apply
Perplant
DriftSense
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
About $440K ARR (public third-party estimate, updated 2025-09-14)
Estimated monthly visits
5.4K
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Latest news
Business Wire · Nov 2025
Seed round co-led by General Catalyst and A Capital; participation from SV Angel and Paul Graham; pre-seed from Character Capital was previously raised.
TechCrunch · Nov 2025
Explains the company’s pivot from selling tools to licensing proprietary pesticide molecules and details the AI model suite and early partner discussions.
Bindwell blog · Nov 2025
Official technical update describing the model stack, wet-lab validation, and in-vitro results for pesticide candidates.
Bindwell blog
Official launch post for APPT, one of Bindwell’s public protein-protein interaction models.
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