# Vera Kutsenko

> Vera Kutsenko is the founder and CEO of Atrix AI, a New York company building a trusted AI platform for life sciences that helps medical affairs teams at pharma and med-device companies turn messy real-world data into decisions they can act on. A Cornell-trained engineer who shipped code at Facebook and Uber, she is a two-time Y Combinator founder. Her previous startup, Neverland, was a venture-backed marketplace for houseplants and home gardening that raised $4.7M before closing. She is also a certified personal trainer who once ran her own plant nursery.

- **Role:** Founder & CEO at Atrix AI
- **Organizations:** Atrix AI, Neverland, Uber, Facebook, Y Combinator, Cornell University
- **Education:** BS, Computer Science, Cornell University, MEng, Computer Science, Cornell University
- **Known for:** Founder and CEO of Atrix AI, an AI platform for life sciences and medical affairs, Two-time Y Combinator founder (Neverland, W21), Raised $4.7M for Neverland from investors including Obvious Ventures, Maveron, Kimbal Musk and Y Combinator

## Career timeline

- **2013** — Graduates Cornell University with a BS in Computer Science (later also an MEng)
- **2013-2016** — Software engineer at Facebook, working on the Internet.org initiative
- **2016-2019** — Senior software engineer at Uber, leading mobile/Android app work
- **2020** — Co-founds Neverland, an online home garden and lawn marketplace
- **2021** — Neverland goes through Y Combinator (W21) and raises $4.7M
- **2022** — Neverland winds down after unit economics fail to work
- **2023** — Founds Atrix AI; early pitch framed as 'Databricks 2.0 for marketing data'; raises Seed funding
- **2024-2026** — Atrix AI focuses on AI for medical affairs in life sciences; Vera becomes a frequent conference speaker

## Achievements

- Founder and CEO of Atrix AI, an AI platform for life sciences and medical affairs
- Two-time Y Combinator founder (Neverland, W21)
- Raised $4.7M for Neverland from investors including Obvious Ventures, Maveron, Kimbal Musk and Y Combinator
- Shipped software at scale at Facebook (Internet.org) and Uber
- Co-authored a paper on distributed networking
- Frequent speaker on AI in regulated/healthcare industries (Digital Pharma East, Fierce DPE, medical affairs summits)
- Authored a widely-shared guide on AI in medical affairs

## Latest updates

- **2025-09** — Speaking and publishing on practical AI for medical affairs, arguing for what AI does today rather than someday
- **2026** — Continues to lead Atrix AI (roughly 13 employees) serving pharma and med-device clients

## Links

- Website: https://atrix.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/verakutsenko/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/veryverasf
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@verakutsenko
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/veryverasf/

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Last updated: 2026-06-21