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AI / ML Founder Directory

Founders building companies in artificial intelligence and machine learning.

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Catherine Jue
@juecd__

Former engineering manager at Cash App, now co-founder of Kernel (YC S25), a developer platform for AI agents to use the internet.

FundedTechnicalProduct
19 VCs
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Ken Ono
@kenono691

Professor at UVA and founding mathematician at Axiom, working on AI and mathematical proofs. Associate producer of "The Man Who Knew Infinity" and former Olympic-level swimmer.

Research
18 VCs
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Nim Ravid
@nim_ravid1

CEO & Co-founder of Sable AI, an AI company focused on helping businesses implement and scale artificial intelligence solutions.

Founder
18 VCs
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Abhijay Rana
@abhijaymrana

Berkeley grad and YC S25 founder of Nuntius, now working as an AI Engineer at Brex on scaling reward models and data brokering. Previously Research Lead at Agentic Labs focusing on reinforcement learning research.

FundedTechnicalResearchStudent
18 VCs
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Sam Hogan
@samhogan

CEO of Inference, building inference infrastructure for AI-native teams.

Founder
18 VCs
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Startup founder focused on how AI will revolutionize social networks.

Founder
17 VCs
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Machina
@exm7777

Co-founder and CEO of Machina Labs, building the future of manufacturing with robots and AI for high-mix, high-volume production.

Funded
16 VCs
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Kevin Xu
@kevinxu

CEO of Alpha AI, focused on trading and financial alerts. Active trader who shares market insights and provides real-time trading alerts to subscribers.

Founder
16 VCs
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Craig Weiss
@craigzliszt

Software engineer with experience at Google, Meta, Snap, Lyft, and NASA. Early engineer at Scale AI before founding Rome (YC W22).

FundedTechnical
16 VCs
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Founding scientist at Fundamental and co-founder/CSO of Shortcut AI, working on AI applications and research.

Research
16 VCs
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