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Discovered Materials

YC Spring 2026 Active

AI scientists to discover materials for the semiconductor industry.

https://discoveredmaterials.com ↗
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YC company pages list founders in page JSON, but we only scrape a capped slice of the directory. Pull this slug with .venv/bin/python run_sourcing.py --sources yc_founders --slugs discovered-materials then re-ingest. Open on YC ↗

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