Intelligent Digital Infrastructure
for Life Sciences R&D

Empower life science with intelligent digital infrastructure that adapts in real time.

Our mission

News

May 27, 2026

Cypher AI Raises $2 Million Seed Round Led by MaC Venture Capital

Seed funding to build AI-native infrastructure for life science R&D — with 800+ scientists already running 100,000+ workflows on the platform.

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Team

Scientists, engineers, and designers building the future of lab software.

Yaoyu Yang

Yaoyu Yang

Founder & CEO

Software x Biology for 15 years. Former Principal SWE at Ginkgo Bioworks. PhD from UW.

Jamie Cho

Jamie Cho

VP of Engineering

25+ years in software x instruments x bio. Former Head of Software at Ginkgo Bioworks. BS/M.Eng, MIT CS.

Michael Taylor

Michael Taylor

Founding Engineer

HTS scientist, former Scientist at Ginkgo Bioworks, iGEM Team Mentor.

Carolyn Corbet

Carolyn Corbet

Founding GTM Lead

Former Senior Commercial Operations Manager at Portal Bio. Former Alliance Manager and Organism Engineer at Ginkgo Bioworks.

Rahul Singhvi, PhD

Rahul Singhvi, PhD

Advisor

Co-Founder & ex-CEO of Resilience ($2B+ funding). Former COO of Takeda Vaccines. PhD from MIT.

Yen-Hsiang Wang

Yen-Hsiang Wang

Advisor

Former VP Strategy & Partnerships at Antheia. Former Director of Strategy at Tencent AI Lab. PhD from Stanford.

Benjie Chen

Benjie Chen

Advisor

Co-Founder of Addgene. Former Principal Engineer at Ginkgo Bioworks. PhD from MIT.

Compliance & privacy

Cypher is built with enterprise-grade security and privacy controls. The detail, and the evidence behind it, is published rather than summarised here.

SOC 2 Type II Compliant

Trust Center

Security practices, compliance certifications, subprocessors, and documentation requests.

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Privacy Policy

What we collect, how we handle it, and how to request deletion of your personal information.

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Research Objectivity

Our Financial Conflict of Interest Policy (FCOI-001) governs PHS-funded research, per 42 CFR Part 50 Subpart F and 45 CFR Part 94.

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Contact

help@cypherbio.ai

Questions, feedback, or support. We respond within 1–2 business days.

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