Oded Falik is Co-Founder and CTO at Strand AI, a Y Combinator W26 company building foundation models that predict missing biological data from measured readouts. Strand AI offers curated multimodal datasets for biology AI used by life sciences teams.

Oded holds a Bachelor of Science degree from The University of Texas at Dallas. Before founding Strand AI in 2025, he served as Senior Director of Architecture at Amwell, a leading telemedicine company, and previously held roles as Chief Architect and CTO at mPrest, specializing in high-performance critical systems.

Oded has deep expertise in software architecture and technology leadership, with experience spanning healthcare, defense, and critical systems. He has a track record of delivering complex software solutions and thinking outside the box to solve difficult problems.

Strand AI was founded in 2025 and is backed by Y Combinator, participating in the Winter 2026 batch. The company is based in San Francisco with co-founder Yue Dai.

Strand AI helps life sciences teams train and evaluate machine learning models by filling gaps in clinical trial data, reducing assay costs, and enabling rare disease research through synthesized data types.