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Arvid Gollwitzer

@arvidMember #540FounderL1
CEO, Anto Bio (YC F25)
multi-omic foundation models for the human gut microbiome
San Francisco, CA, USA Anto Bio (YC F25)XLinkedIn
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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

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Capital raised
Anto Bio · AI foundation models for the gut microbiome / drug development
$500K+
Seed · Jun 2026
Anto Bio has raised $500K+, starting with a $500K Y Combinator seed investment (2025) and followed by an undisclosed seed round from Tekedia Capital (2026).

Experience

Founder at Anto (YC F25) | Researcher at Broad, Harvard, MIT | Lecturer at ETH Zurich
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Jan 2025 – PresentCurrent
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Jan 2025 – PresentCurrent
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Building Anto Biosciences · Y Combinator
Jan 2025 – PresentCurrent
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Research Scholar · Harvard University
Jan 2024 – PresentCurrent
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Lecturer · ETH Zürich
Jan 2021 – PresentCurrent
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Jan 2024 – Jan 2025
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Research Scholar · IBM
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024
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Research Scholar · CERN
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
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Education

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ETH Zurich
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MIT
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Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
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Harvard Medical School