Novaflow (LinkedIn) · Jul 2026
Official company recap emphasizing customer conversations, founders met, and the team’s presence at BIO International 2026.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Overview
Novaflow is a YC Summer 2025 bioinformatics SaaS that uses natural-language prompts and LLM-generated workflows to turn raw omics data into publication-ready analyses, plots, and reproducible notebooks for researchers, labs, and biotech teams.
Primary product
AI-powered bioinformatics analysis platform for life science data
Founded
2025
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
10-20
Work style
Flexible
Industry
Technology, Information and Internet
Sub-industry
Bioinformatics software
Offices
San Francisco, California, United States
Business model
B2B SaaS
subscription
freemium
enterprise sales
Funding
Stage
pre-seed
Total raised
$500K
Latest round
Pre-Seed · Aug 2025
Latest amount
$500K
Aug 2025 · Y Combinator
People & investors
Leadership
CEO & Co-founder
CTO & Co-founder
AI ML Team Lead
Work & culture
Small, high-agency, founder-proximate team focused on shipping quickly, working side by side, and giving early hires direct visibility into product strategy, customer conversations, and fundraising.
Work style
Flexible
Visa sponsorship
Limited
Compensation
Public job postings show founding engineer compensation around $100K-$150K salary plus 0.25%-2.00% equity, with interns paid about $25-$45/hour or $6K-$10K/month depending on role. Benefits mentioned include 401(k) match, unlimited PTO, federal holidays, a monthly health and wellness stipend, and meals covered in the office.
Benefits
401(k) with company match
unlimited PTO
federal holidays
monthly health and wellness stipend
daily lunch in the office
dinner when working late
team offsites
company events
opportunity to convert to a full-time role
work directly with founders
Product & market
Pricing
Free / Team / Custom enterprise plans; monthly and annual pricing
Differentiators
- —Natural-language interface for launching analyses
- —Automatically generated validated workflows
- —Publication-ready plots in minutes
- —Exportable notebooks and reproducible Python code
- —Versioned runs and provenance
- —Targets life science teams without requiring coding
- —Supports multiple omics workflows such as RNA-seq and ATAC-seq
- —Secure cloud or on-prem options for larger teams
Technology
PostgreSQL
Docker
Python
SQL
RabbitMQ
PyTorch
Terraform
Jupyter
Nextflow
Zapier
microservices
AWS
SQS
OpenAI
TypeScript
TensorFlow
Linux
React
Git
Unix
Customers
California Institute of Technology
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Harvard Medical School
UCSF
UC Berkeley
Competitors
DNAnexus
Seven Bridges
Terra
Basepair
Partek Flow
Rosalind
Pipette.bio
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
Approximately $220K-$342K ARR (third-party estimates)
Estimated monthly visits
5.9K
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Latest news
Novaflow (LinkedIn) · Jul 2026
Official company post highlighting Amulya Balakrishnan’s BIO 2026 talk and the company’s biotech conference visibility.
Novaflow (LinkedIn) · Jun 2026
Official company post recapping Novaflow’s presence at BIO International 2026 in San Diego.
Startup Intros · Jul 2025
Third-party funding writeup stating Novaflow raised $500K in a seed round in July 2025.
Y Combinator
Official YC launch describing Novaflow’s product, target users, and founder story.
Jobs and careers at Novaflow
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