for YC founders
Our investing partners are accomplished YC alumni and operators. Collectively, our team has invested in more than 1,200 companies and co-founded over 100.
Our approach means we can move very fast.





Main investments in Gen AI, Fintech and Energy

Main investments in Gen AI, Fintech and Energy








Sky Yang is the Co-founder & CEO of Imagine AI. Before Imagine AI, Sky was the youngest-ever elected Student Body President at UC San Diego, where he led 32,000 students and successfully raised $150M for university infrastructure improvement. He also founded the nonprofit Break the Outbreak, scaling it to a 400-person organization operating in 53 cities/18 States. His expertise lies in building communities and mobilizing resources to solve critical bottlenecks— now he help B2B companies scale.
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Frederik is the CEO and Co-founder of Diligence Squared. Before DiligenceSquared, Frederik was a Principal in Blackstone's Private Equity team across San Francisco, New York, and London, doing multi-billion dollar buyout deals. He was a key decision-maker on the buy-side of commercial due diligence projects, commissioning dozens of $500K+ reports from firms like McKinsey and BCG. He knows what makes diligence credible to investors - and where traditional consulting wastes time and money.
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Soren is the COO and Co-founder of DiligenceSquared. Before DiligenceSquared, Soren was a Principal at BCG's Private Equity team in New York, focusing on commercial due diligence for some of the world's largest private equity, growth equity, and hedge funds. He led 40+ commercial due diligence projects and knows the workflows intricately - what insights investors actually need and how AI can deliver them faster and better.
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Harshil is the Co-Founder and CTO at DiligenceSquared. Before DiligenceSquared, Harshil was a Software Engineer at Google, where he led AI/ML systems in Google Ads to detect abusive ads at scale. Earlier in his career, Harshil held Product Manager and Software Engineering roles at Acronis, Flipkart and Innovaccer. He also co-founded and successfully exited a start-up.
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Co-founder & CTO of Crunched. Senior full-stack and infrastructure engineer with deep experience building production systems - from cloud platforms and distributed backends to real-time control systems. Worked closely with customers to deliver tailor-made, end-to-end applications in forward-deployed engineering teams at Bekk, built cloud infrastructure at Schibsted and Sopra Steria, and developed autonomous maritime systems at Kongsberg Defence. Holds an MSc in Cybernetics & Robotics (NTNU).
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Co-founder and Head of AI at Crunched! Background in Robotics and Control Systems from NTNU. Former Data Scientist at Oda, Norway’s first unicorn, and at BearingPoint, where I built and scaled AI solutions for clients in finance and luxury automotive. Recipient of BearingPoint’s Global Innovation Award.
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Founder & CEO @ Metorial Previously founded an event ticketing startup. Led the technical development with my now co-founder Tobias. Sold 2M+ tickets and handled ticketing for Travis Scott, 50 Cent, and G-Eazy. Before that: military service, software engineering, and writing two novels while in high school.
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Cofounder of AutoAce. Previously Computer Science and Economics at MIT. Interned at Amazon as a Software Development Engineer and at NASA as a Machine Learning Intern. Originally from Delton, Michigan, with experience ranging from working at McDonald’s to fixing up cars in his free time.
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I've been obsessed with audio and AR for 11 years (46% of my life). I built my first voice assistant on a Raspberry Pi at age 12. I built my first apps for the Google Glass when I was 13 years old. I studied C.S. at Yale, where my senior thesis focused on extracting clean speech transcripts from noisy multi-speaker audio. In the past, I've researched audio AI at the MIT Media Lab where I was part of the team that built the world's first collaborative human-AI live musical concert.
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I studied C.S. at Cornell and graduated Summa Cum Laude. I built my first voice apps for AR glasses in high school (an emotional support tool for people with autism). In college, I spent summers as the first engineer at YC startups, building conversational and voice AI platforms for therapy. I've done HCI research at Cornell and have been supported by several fellowships (8VC Fellowship, Kessler Fellowship).
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Jonathan is co-founder and CEO of Compyle. He studied Computer Science and Economics at Johns Hopkins University, where he led multiple AI research projects for the CS department and developed snake robots. He also founded Hopkins Deliveries, a campus food delivery service that built cost-effective tele-operated delivery robots. Before Compyle, Jonathan was founding engineer #4 at Hadrius (YC W23), where he built core AI systems powering compliance at thousands of businesses today.
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CEO of Kaigo Health, obsessed with senior-care and healthcare, ex-Neuralink & Varda hardware/robotics engineer, started 2 nonprofits (3K+ members and going strong), volunteered 600+ hours at hospitals, ERs, nursing homes, and senior communities, #1 advocate of the elderly, attempting to help solve the aging crisis and bringing healthcare to the home.
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COO of Kaigo Health, and preventive health advocate - biohacked himself into benching 360+ lbs. Co-Founder of Stanford Founders and Full-stack engineer with stints at SAP and ServiceNow, who built products ranging from AI-powered IoT systems to platforms processing $20M+ GMV. He designed tech-enabled radiology practices at Accenture, worked on Neuromorphic computing with Fortiss, and with SAP's CTO on redesigning their tech strategy. Researched at Stanford CDR, and holds an MSc in CS from TUM.
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Robotics and AI engineer turned founder. Led NVIDIA’s perception and simulation efforts for autonomous driving, built ML systems at BMW, Amazon, and PlayStation, and ran race ops for MIT Driverless’s autonomous Formula team. Earned his M.S. in ECE at UIUC, where he developed humanoid robots for home care and published 12 IEEE papers on human-robot interaction. Also a fashion runway photographer featured in ELLE (NYFW SS25).
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Stefan Kruger is the co founder and CTO of heylua.ai, a chat-first AI platform helping businesses become AI native in a couple of clicks. Before starting Lua, he was VP of Engineering at Paystack (acquired by Stripe), where he spent nearly a decade scaling fintech infrastructure across the continent. A builder at heart, Stefan has deep experience in resilient systems, orchestration, and developer tooling, and is passionate about making AI accessible in the everyday platform.
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