Ishaan Gangwani is the 17-year-old co-founder of InkVell, an AI-native operating system for scientific research. Accepted into Y Combinator’s W26 batch, he chose to skip university to build a platform that automates the scientific research lifecycle—from literature reviews to drafting papers. Before InkVell, Ishaan was a developer and AI researcher with acceptances at NeurIPS and ICML workshops. Based in San Francisco, he is one of the youngest founders ever backed by YC, having raised a $1.4M pre-seed round from a16z scout fund and Pioneer Fund.