Tamarind Bio · Feb 2026
Company blog announcing a $13.6M total raise, including a $12M Series A led by Dimension Capital with participation from Y Combinator, plus customer traction and product positioning.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 30, 2026
Overview
Tamarind Bio is an AI infrastructure platform for biotech R&D that gives scientists a web interface, API, and CLI to run computational biology and molecular AI models at scale for drug discovery and related research.
Primary product
A central web platform and programmatic API for running 250+ computational biology and physics-based models (plus CLI/MCP access) for protein, peptide, enzyme, antibody, and small-molecule design.
Founded
2023
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
11-50 employees
Work style
Onsite
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
AI infrastructure / computational biology platform for biotech R&D
Offices
2325 3rd Street, Ste 320, San Francisco, CA 94107, United States
San Francisco, California, United States
Business model
SaaS subscription
API usage / platform access
Enterprise licensing
Academic/free tier
Custom model hosting / services
Funding
Stage
Series A
Total raised
$13.6M
Latest round
Series A · Feb 2026
Latest amount
$12M
Feb 2026 · Dimension Capital
Apr 2024 · Y Combinator
Jan 2024
People & investors
Leadership
Co-Founder & CEO
Co-Founder & CTO
Ira Wight
team member
Founding Software Engineer
Work & culture
Founder-led, technical, customer-close, and research-focused; hiring emphasizes hard technical problems, backend/infra, and protein engineering, with close work alongside customers.
Work style
Onsite
Visa sponsorship
Limited
Compensation
Public job postings show salary bands such as $150K-$250K for founding software engineer roles and $130K-$200K for scientist roles, with some roles explicitly limited to US citizen/visa holders.
Benefits
Free tier for academics and individuals
Academic plan for university/government/non-profit email addresses
Email support on free tier
Priority support on premium/enterprise tiers
Open API access on premium
Org-wide admin controls on premium
Custom security audits on enterprise
SLA agreements on enterprise
SAML SSO on enterprise
Product & market
Pricing
Tiered pricing with Free, Premium, and Enterprise plans, plus an extended Academic Plan.
Differentiators
- —No-code/simple interface and API for complex computational biology models
- —Run 250+ models without local setup, DevOps, or HPC expertise
- —Secure cloud execution with users retaining ownership of inputs and derivatives
- —Custom tool support via web UI, REST API, batch workflows, pipelines, and MCP server
- —Enterprise options for custom model hosting, audits, SLA, and SSO
- —Supports both open-source and proprietary models across many modalities
Technology
Python
TypeScript
React
Docker
Kubernetes
Terraform
Vercel
PyTorch
TensorFlow
CUDA
Slurm
AWS CodeBuild
Linux Docker containers
MLOps
GitHub App integration
API
MCP server
Customers
Large pharmaceutical companies
Biotechs
Academic institutions
Stanford
Harvard
Oxford
Bayer
Boehringer Ingelheim
Adimab
Mammoth Biosciences
Flagship Pioneering
Eli Lilly (TuneLab2.0 partner)
Competitors
Code Ocean
Algorithmiq
02AI
Iambic
Adaptyv Bio
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
Unknown; public estimate sources conflict and are not company-confirmed
Estimated monthly visits
62.9K
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Latest news
Forbes · Feb 2026
Profiles the company, its cash-flow-positive status, growth, and customer adoption across pharma and biotech.
Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News · Feb 2026
Independent coverage of the Series A, including the company's origin story, product scope, and Dimension Capital's lead role.
BioPharmaTrend · Feb 2026
Coverage of the financing and platform usage across biotech organizations, with customer adoption claims and model-library expansion.
Y Combinator
YC profile with founding year, headquarters, team size, founders, and product description.
Jobs and careers at Tamarind Bio
7 jobs at Tamarind Bio
Staff Software Engineer / Technical Lead
On-site
Engineering
San Francisco
3mo ago
On-site
Full-time
Founding Product Marketer, GTM Marketing
On-site
Sales
San Francisco
3mo ago
On-site
Full-time
Founding Software Engineer
On-site
Engineering
San Francisco
4mo ago
On-site
Full-time
Founding GTM, BD
On-site
Sales
San Francisco
4mo ago
On-site
Full-time
Founding Forward Deployed Engineer
On-site
Sales
San Francisco
4mo ago
On-site
Full-time
Computational Scientist
On-site
Science
San Francisco
6mo ago
On-site
Full-time
Infrastructure Engineer
On-site
Engineering
San Francisco
6mo ago
On-site
Full-time