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The startup applies drug discovery techniques to agriculture, using models... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/teen-founders-raise-6m-to-reinvent-pesticides-using-ai-and-convince-paul-graham-to-join-in-xsmcodrrs og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/XsMcoDrrs.png og:image:alt: Teen founders raise $6M to reinvent pesticides using AI — and convince Paul Graham to join in og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Teen founders raise $6M to reinvent pesticides using AI — and convince Paul Graham to join in **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Bindwell, founded by two teenagers, raised $6M to use AI for pesticide discovery. The startup applies drug discovery techniques to agriculture, using models like a fine-tuned AlphaFold to identify target proteins and screen billions of molecules. Instead of selling AI tools to agrochemical companies, Bindwell designs new pesticide molecules in-house and licenses the IP directly. The company aims to address pest resistance and reduce chemical use by creating more targeted compounds from scratch. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [AI is spitting out more potential drugs than ever. 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