Liam McBride is Co-Founder and CTO at Alchemy AI, a Y Combinator-backed platform delivering AI-powered image analysis for life science researchers in biotech and pharma.

Liam earned a Master's degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and previously worked at Atsign, Stanford University, and CivitasAI, building expertise across full-stack development, IoT, and AI.

Liam brings a rare combination of hardware and software co-design skills, with a deep interest in AI safety and computer vision applied to scientific research.

Prior to Alchemy AI, Liam co-founded BoBo, where he engineered the full-stack mobile app from scratch and raised $20,000 in non-dilutive funding, gathering 7 letters of intent from property management firms.

Alchemy AI's platform reduces image analysis time for biotech and pharma researchers by 98%, enabling reproducible, publication-ready results through AI-driven computer vision pipelines.