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TareBio

TareBio is a YC Summer 2026 (S26) company. Based in San Francisco, CA, USA. Team of 1.

  • Vaccines
  • Synthetic Biology
  • Biotechnology

About TareBio

GPAgent's own fund-neutral profile, written from public information. Updated Oct 4, 2026.

Summary

TareBio develops a vaccine platform that produces personalized or population-level vaccines against cancer and infectious disease in weeks. Rather than predicting which antigens to target upfront, the platform samples immune cells already fighting a disease in the patient's body and reverse-engineers the antigens that activate them. This approach replaces years of conventional antigen-discovery work with a single swappable input, the immune imprint, and has already produced a vaccine that cleared cancer in mice.

From the Y Combinator listing

How TareBio describes itself in Y Combinator's public directory.

Vaccines for any cancer or infection in weeks.

Our platform develops personalized or population-level vaccines for any disease in weeks by changing only one input: the immune imprint. Instead of trying to predict which antigens might work, we read out immune cells already fighting the disease in the body and reverse-engineer antigens that activate them. We've already run our platform end-to-end and created a vaccine that cured cancer in mice.

Facts

Industry
Healthcare / Healthcare -> Drug Discovery and Delivery
Location
San Francisco, CA, USA
Team size
1
Status
Active
Stage
Early

Founders (1)

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