Kingdom (YC S20) — Clinically-validated ingredients from natural microbes
Kingdom creates clinically-validated Superculture® ingredients from natural microbes to improve the health of pets and people. We’re the world’s first AI-native ingredients company, delivering industry-leading efficacy in a fraction of the traditional development time.
Kingdom is a Y Combinator company in the Summer 2020 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Clinically-validated ingredients from natural microbes. The founders listed are Kendall Dabaghi (Founder), Ravi Sheth (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, July 30, 2020).
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Kingdom creates clinically-validated Superculture® ingredients from natural microbes to improve the health of pets and people. We’re the world’s first AI-native ingredients company, delivering industry-leading efficacy in a fraction of the traditional development time.
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Kingdom creates and sells Superculture® ingredients
Clinically-validated Superculture® ingredients target the root causes of unmet pet health needs.
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Kendall Dabaghi
Founder
I'm a co-founder of Kingdom. Previously, I co-founded two consumer tech startups that were acquired by public companies (ArmorHub in 2014 and A Plus in 2016). Throughout my life I've dealt with a set of health issues related to my microbiome, and became a microbiome researcher in 2016 to develop deep expertise in the area. I deferred my PhD at MIT to co-found Kingdom in 2019, with the goal of harnessing natural microbes to address unmet health needs.
Ravi Sheth
Founder
I'm a co-founder of Kingdom. I received my PhD from Columbia supported by Hertz and NSF fellowships, and published 8+ first author papers in the microbiome and genomics fields (Science, Nature Biotech, Nature Methods, and more). I also spent time at the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation working on childhood malnutrition, and co-founded a edtech company in college (STEAMtrax) that was acquired by a public company.
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