Zlatko Jončev

Co-Founder@b12-labs.com (YC S25) Chemistry, Robots & AI

Co-founder

b12 Labs· Summer 2025 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States

in LinkedIn 𝕏 @ZJoncev

2025Co-founder· b-12 (YC S25)

Founder · since 2025

Company

b-12 (YC S25)

Role

Co-Founder & CEO

current

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

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b12 Labs

Making hard molecules for Pharma and Biotech

Summer 2025

Experience

Career

b-12 (YC S25)
Co-founder
Co-Founder & CEO · 2025 – Present
2025
EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)
Scientific Collaborator/Postdoc - Lab of Artificial Chemical Intelligence (LIAC) · Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland · 2023 – 2025
2023
Chemspeed Technologies
Junior Software Engineer/AI-ML Consultant · Basel Area · 2023
2023
Chemspeed Technologies
Automation Chemist · Basel Area · 2022 – 2023
2022
University of Basel, Switzerland
Teaching Assistant · Basel, Canton of Basel-Stadt, Switzerland · 2018 – 2022
2018
Petnica Science Center
Assistant Various Roles · Petnica, Serbia · 2012 – 2016
2012
Roche
Internship in Medicinal Chemistry - IAESTE trainee placement · Basel, Kanton Basel-Stadt, Switzerland · 2015
2015
Sandoz (Lek, Ljubljana)
Regional BioCamp · Ljubljana, Slovenia · 2015
2015
Forschungszentrum Jülich
Guest Student Programee · Bonn Area, Germany · 2014
2014

Bio

at b-12 we are developing AI agents for automated workflows in chemistry and pharma R&D, as a way of manifestating chemical super intelligence in physical world. our long-term goal is to create autonomous labs that can perform complex, multistep syntheses with minimal human intervention.