2x founder

Vishnu Tejus

Founder and CTO at 10x Science (YC W26)

Founder

10x Science· Winter 2026🇺🇸 Sunnyvale, California, United States

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2025Founder· 10x Science (YC W26)

Founder · since 2021

Company

10x Science (YC W26)

Role

Founder and CTO

current

Stage

—

no public source

Raised

—

no public source

Based

San Francisco Bay Area

current

Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

Source: LinkedIn work history

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10x Science

The AI-native platform for next-generation protein characterization.

Winter 2026

Experience

Career

10x Science (YC W26)
Founder
Founder and CTO · San Francisco Bay Area · 2025 – Present
2025
Stanford University, UCSF, University of Washington
Research Intern · San Francisco Bay Area · 2024 – Present
2024
Nooks
Founder
Founding Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area · 2021 – 2025
2021

Bio

I am a 2x YC Founder. Previously, I built AI for go-to-market teams as the 2nd hire and founding engineer at Nooks. Then, I forward deployed myself in research labs at the University of Washington, UCSF, and Stanford, where I was mentored by world-renowned scientists in analytical chemistry and cancer research. In < 1 year, I published 2 papers and won 4 national awards. Now, I'm building ultrafast AI models for drug discovery teams to characterize proteins and pharmaceutical candidates.