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One year ago, ReactWise was just an idea in a YC batch - today, it’s powering labs across the world.

October 21, 2025

One year ago, ReactWise was just an idea in a YC batch - today, it’s powering labs across the world.

By the end of our 90 days at YC, we’d built something we could finally call a product. It wasn’t polished, but it was powerful enough to convince us we were onto something real.

Back then, it was just Daniel Wigh and me, working full-time, supported by a few incredible interns. We were experimenting every day - on our tech stack, our go-to market strategy, our identity as a company.

Fast-forward one year, and the picture looks very different.

We’ve grown into a team of nine full-time members - bringing together machine learning engineers, software developers, chemists, automation engineers, and strategists. 

Moreover, we’ve built an advisory board of four leading professors in chemistry, automation, and machine learning for chemistry.

Our product has evolved far beyond its early prototype. It’s been rolled out across over a dozen companies, with each deployment teaching us something new about how to make chemists’ lives simpler, faster, and smarter.

And we’re not stopping there.

Very soon, we’ll be announcing new features that go beyond reaction optimization - addressing the real needs of chemists in modern R&D environments.

It’s been a wild, humbling, and inspiring journey.

To everyone who’s believed in us - thank you. 

The next chapter of ReactWise is just beginning.

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