# Parasma

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/parasma/  
**Website:** https://parasma.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Parasma is a San Francisco based biological compute startup building algorithms and hardware that train living human brain cells (cortical neurons on a chip) to perform computation for AI workloads. Founded in 2026 by Sean Cole and backed by Y Combinator (Summer 2026 batch), the company grew out of research that taught a clump of lab-grown human neurons to play Doom, coverage of which appeared in Nature, The Economist, Scientific American, The Guardian and elsewhere. Parasma currently operates as an early-stage research company with a marketing and news website; it does not yet publish a public API, SDK, developer portal, or other machine-readable developer surface. This profile is tracked in the API Evangelist network as a company lead so any future developer platform can be captured when it ships.

## Kin Score — 5.5 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 5.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 2.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (1)

- **Parasma Domain Security** — TLSv1.3

## Tags

Company, Biological Compute, Neurotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, Machine-Learning, Wetware, Compute, Research, Y Combinator

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/parasma/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.