On Lounge since Oct 2026
Arvid Gollwitzer
Member #540FounderL1CEO, Anto Bio (YC F25)
multi-omic foundation models for the human gut microbiome
Achievements
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About
Arvid Gollwitzer is a co-founder of Anto Bio (YC F25), a San Francisco AI lab building foundation models for the gut microbiome, to help drug developers use microbiome data. He is also a researcher at the Broad Institute and has done research at MIT's Langer Lab, ETH Zurich and IBM Research. Arvid has worked on sparsification methods that remove noisy microbiome data and keep the part that predicts outcomes.
Raises & exits
Member Raises$500K+
Led by Y Combinator
Anto Bio has raised $500K+, including a $500K Seed round from Y Combinator (2025-09), with other investors reported by data aggregators.
Education
EZ
ETH Zurich
MIT
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Harvard Medical School
