Aster
Aster is a YC Spring 2026 (P26) company. Based in San Francisco, CA, USA. Team of 2.
About Aster
Summary
Aster builds autonomous research systems that run thousands of AI agents in parallel to conduct open-ended scientific research. It targets technology discovery cycles that currently take years, compressing that work into hours. Rather than answering predefined questions, the system formulates its own research problems and pursues them end-to-end, replacing the iterative human-driven experimentation loop.
Go-to-market
Aster sells to B2B customers who need to accelerate novel technology discovery, with early results published across machine learning and protein benchmarks to demonstrate capability.
From the Y Combinator listing
Automating open-ended research.
Aster is the first autonomous research lab — thousands of AI research agents orchestrated in parallel toward a single goal. We're on a mission to automate open-ended research: research that defines its own problems before it can answer them. The future doesn't wait to be defined by benchmarks. Neither do we.
Facts
- B2B / B2B -> Productivity
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- 2
- Active
- Early
Founders (1)
- Emmett Bicker
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