# Known Medicine

Source: https://onco.cc/companies/known-medicine/  
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## TL;DR

Known Medicine breaks a patient's tumour into thousands of tiny three-dimensional tumours, treats each with a different drug, and uses AI to predict which drugs will work. It has been acquired.

## Summary

Known Medicine built a functional precision oncology platform: patient tumour samples are dissociated into thousands of micro-tumours in three-dimensional culture, exposed to candidate drugs and imaged, with AI models trained to translate the responses into predictions of clinical benefit for drug developers. The YC directory lists the company as acquired; the acquirer is not named here because no primary source was fetched at the time of checking.

## Fields

- Kind: Company
- Last checked: 2026-09-10
- Tags: yc
- HQ: Salt Lake City, UT
- Type: cro-services
- Website: https://knownmed.com

## Sources

- Y Combinator profile: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/known-medicine
- Official website: https://knownmed.com

## Connected records

- fronts: [Diagnostics & Biomarkers](https://onco.cc/fronts/diagnostics/), [Drug Discovery Platforms](https://onco.cc/fronts/drug-discovery/)
- technologies: [Functional (ex vivo) drug testing](https://onco.cc/technologies/functional-drug-testing/), [Patient-derived organoids](https://onco.cc/technologies/organoids/)
- companies: [Y Combinator](https://onco.cc/companies/y-combinator/)

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