aid: immunity-project
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/immunity-project.png
name: Immunity Project
description: >-
  Immunity Project was a San Francisco nonprofit and Y Combinator company (batch
  Winter 2014, one of YC's first non-profits alongside Watsi) that set out to
  develop a free HIV/AIDS vaccine. Its approach studied naturally immune "HIV
  controllers" and applied machine learning to reverse-engineer the immune
  response, aiming to deliver a crowdfunded, virus-free vaccine via nasal spray.
  Founders included Reid Rubsamen, Naveen Jain, and Ian Cinnamon. The
  organization surfaced in the API Evangelist network as a Y Combinator portfolio
  lead; enrichment found no developer portal, documentation, or API surface, and
  its former domain (immunityproject.org) has lapsed and now redirects to an
  unrelated third-party news outlet, indicating the project is effectively
  defunct.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/immunity-project/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- y-combinator
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: defunct
x-enrichment-note: >-
  No live first-party website, developer portal, docs, or API surface as of
  2026-07-19. Former domain immunityproject.org (HTTP 302) redirects to
  tech.blab.com, an unrelated news outlet. No catalog artifacts produced (no
  fabrication).
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Nonprofit
- Health Tech
- Biotech
- HIV
- Vaccine
- Machine Learning
- Y Combinator
apis: []
properties:
- type: CompanyProfile
  url: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/immunity-project
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence