Tyler Rose

Tyler Rose is the CEO and co-founder of Bindwell, an artificial intelligence agrochemical startup based in San Francisco, California. Prior to dropping out of high school to launch the company alongside co-founder Navvye Anand, he worked as an engineer at Wolfram Research focusing on machine learning, bioinformatics, and computational biology. Under his leadership, Bindwell secured $6 million in initial seed funding from prominent investors including General Catalyst, A Capital, and Paul Graham, and was accepted into the Y Combinator Winter 2025 cohort. The 18-year-old entrepreneur was recently named to the annual Forbes 30 Under 30 list for science and has co-authored several peer-reviewed academic papers, including the 2024 AffinityLM research publication on drug-target affinity prediction. Rose currently focuses on leveraging computational models to design safer, highly targeted pesticide molecules for the global agricultural industry.