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Rasyn

Industrial chemicals designed with AI

  • Materials
  • Generative AI
  • Hard Tech

About

Rasyn develops industrial chemicals against a customer’s performance and process requirements — new compounds, new formulations, and improvements to existing chemistry — across cooling, catalysis and crystal design. Most industrial products are formulations: a datacenter coolant is a mixture of around ten ingredients, and there are more possible mixtures than anyone could test.

Its models cover retrosynthesis, reaction prediction and spectral analysis, paired with experimental testing, compressing a development cycle that normally runs three to five years. The team has invented, synthesized and patented three new chemicals, including a PFAS-free datacenter coolant, and licenses the resulting chemistry to manufacturers. Its Marigold platform runs any chemistry task from a plain-language request.

Rasyn is in Y Combinator’s Summer 2026 batch, and Array invested in its 2026 pre-seed.

Record

Stage
PreSeed
Category
Materials
Location
San Francisco, California
Team
1-10
Total raised
$500K
Array came in at
Pre-Seed, 2026

Founders

  • Ansh Tiwari

    Co-Founder & CEO

    Studied physics at Caltech and previously worked at NASA; author of three ICML papers and a Masason Foundation member.

  • Ayush Chauhan

    Co-Founder & CTO

    Previously at Speechify, serving over 50 million users, and a two-time YC engineer at Freya and Orchids. His NeurIPS-published ML research has been used by OpenAI and Meta.

  • Daood Hashmi

    Co-Founder

    Chemistry researcher in the Arnold and Marcus labs at Caltech.