Dillan DiNardo

Designing the 98% of psychoactive drug classes that don’t exist yet | CEO at Mindstate Design Labs | AI x Neurotech x Psychotropics | ex-biotech VC

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Mindstate Design Labs
Mindstate Design Labs

Articles

WIRED Magazine - A Startup Used AI to Make a Psychedelic Without the Trip | WIRED
WIRED Magazine - A Startup Used AI to Make a Psychedelic Without the Trip | WIRED
Popular Mechanics - Science Has a Powerful New Tool to Unlock the Mysteries of Consciousness—And Even Help You Reach Transcendence
Popular Mechanics - Science Has a Powerful New Tool to Unlock the Mysteries of Consciousness—And Even Help You Reach Transcendence
Big Think - The next era of psychedelics may be precision-designed states of consciousness
Big Think - The next era of psychedelics may be precision-designed states of consciousness
Futurism - Startups Are Biohacking Psychedelic Drugs to Make Sure You Never Have a Bad Trip Again
Futurism - Startups Are Biohacking Psychedelic Drugs to Make Sure You Never Have a Bad Trip Again
The Atlantic - Tripping on Nothing
The Atlantic - Tripping on Nothing
TIME Magazine - Safer Psychedelic Drugs May Be Coming
TIME Magazine - Safer Psychedelic Drugs May Be Coming
Lucid News - Mindstate Uses AI to Design “Next-Gen” Psychedelics Combined With 5-MeO-MiPT - Lucid News
Lucid News - Mindstate Uses AI to Design “Next-Gen” Psychedelics Combined With 5-MeO-MiPT - Lucid News
Washington Post - FDA gives an early nod to psychedelic research
Washington Post - FDA gives an early nod to psychedelic research
Politico - The psychedelic AI found
Politico - The psychedelic AI found
Fierce Biotech - After crunching 70k 'trip reports', Mindstate looks to test first AI-derived psychedelic on humans
Fierce Biotech - After crunching 70k 'trip reports', Mindstate looks to test first AI-derived psychedelic on humans
MIT Technology Review - What do psychedelic drugs do to our brains? AI could help us find out
MIT Technology Review - What do psychedelic drugs do to our brains? AI could help us find out
Bloomberg - Are Hallucinogen Look-Alikes Illegal? DEA Delay Creates Limbo
Bloomberg - Are Hallucinogen Look-Alikes Illegal? DEA Delay Creates Limbo
Vice - The Future of Psychedelic Medicine Will Be Drugs You’ve Never Heard Of
Vice - The Future of Psychedelic Medicine Will Be Drugs You’ve Never Heard Of
Wall Street Journal - Investors See Far Out Profits in Psychedelic Medicine
Wall Street Journal - Investors See Far Out Profits in Psychedelic Medicine
GenEngNews - Transforming Psychedelics into Approved Medicines
GenEngNews - Transforming Psychedelics into Approved Medicines
Insider - Here are the 7 hottest psychedelics startups that are set to take off in 2022, according to 3 top VCs in the space
Insider - Here are the 7 hottest psychedelics startups that are set to take off in 2022, according to 3 top VCs in the space
Crunchbase News - Psychedelics Provide New Frontier For Venture Funding, But Nuances Prevail
Crunchbase News - Psychedelics Provide New Frontier For Venture Funding, But Nuances Prevail
Axios - Psychedelic startup's massive seed round
Axios - Psychedelic startup's massive seed round
Entrepreneur - The Burgeoning Psychedelics Industry Is Full of Money and Good Intentions. But Can It Avoid All Of Cannabis's Mistakes?
Entrepreneur - The Burgeoning Psychedelics Industry Is Full of Money and Good Intentions. But Can It Avoid All Of Cannabis's Mistakes?
Benzinga - Y Combinator Startup Uses AI To Design New Drug-Induced States Of Consciousness
Fast Company - VC money keeps flowing into psychedelics-based mental health
Fast Company - VC money keeps flowing into psychedelics-based mental health
Insider - A Y Combinator startup that's creating a new class of psychedelics just raised $11.5 million from big Silicon Valley investors
Insider - A Y Combinator startup that's creating a new class of psychedelics just raised $11.5 million from big Silicon Valley investors
TechCrunch - Our favorite startups from YC’s Summer 21 Demo Day
TechCrunch - Our favorite startups from YC’s Summer 21 Demo Day

TV & Video

CBS News - Development and testing of psychedelic drugs to treat mental illness
CBS News - Development and testing of psychedelic drugs to treat mental illness
Garry Tan - How Psychedelics will Change Society for the Better | with Dillan DiNardo of Mindstate Design Labs
Garry Tan - How Psychedelics will Change Society for the Better | with Dillan DiNardo of Mindstate Design Labs
Josie Kins - Mapping the Biological Basis of the Psychedelic Experience | Mindstate Design Labs
Josie Kins - Mapping the Biological Basis of the Psychedelic Experience | Mindstate Design Labs

Academic Publications

Neuron - Data science opportunities of large language models for neuroscience and biomedicine
Neuron - Data science opportunities of large language models for neuroscience and biomedicine

Podcasts

Psychedelics and AI in 2025 with Dillan DiNardo of Y Combinator-backed Mindstate Design Labs
Psychedelics and AI in 2025 with Dillan DiNardo of Y Combinator-backed Mindstate Design Labs
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Dillan DiNardo: Mindstate Design Labs
Dillan DiNardo: Mindstate Design Labs
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·Podcast
Dillan DiNardo: Engineering Consciousness with Psychedelics and AI
Dillan DiNardo: Engineering Consciousness with Psychedelics and AI
Dillan DiNardo, Raising $11.5M To Design New States of Consciousness With Psychedelics
Dillan DiNardo, Raising $11.5M To Design New States of Consciousness With Psychedelics
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Dillan DiNardo - Designing States of Consciousness: Unique Approaches to Psychedelic Drug Development
Dillan DiNardo - Designing States of Consciousness: Unique Approaches to Psychedelic Drug Development
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·Podcast
Dillan DiNardo - CEO of Mindstate Design Labs | Creating Novel Psychoactive Drugs at Y Combinator
Dillan DiNardo - CEO of Mindstate Design Labs | Creating Novel Psychoactive Drugs at Y Combinator
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