Confluence Labs

Confluence Labs is a Y Combinator-backed company that aI systems optimized for learning efficiency. The company participated in the Winter 2026 batch of Y Combinator.

While modern AI excels in any area you can collect a lot of data for, it struggles in areas where data is sparse or costly to attain. Designing new molecules, discovering new physics, and engineering new materials are all domains where collecting data is extremely costly.

We dream of a world where AI accelerates research in all of these domains and creates a more abundant future for humanity, but the current technology is not there. That's why we started Confluence Labs.

Confluence Labs was part of Y Combinator's Winter 2026 cohort, has a team of approximately 2 employees, and is actively operating.