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AI / ML Founder Directory

Founders building companies in artificial intelligence and machine learning.

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Daanish Khazi
@bertgodel

YC founder building The LLM Data Company. Previously worked in product strategy and operations at Traba and founded/consulted for various startups.

FundedProductOperations
24 VCs
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Daniel Kornum
@dkfromdk

Former COO at Citadel Securities and McKinsey consultant turned AI founder, currently building a stealth startup. Previously founded CareerLoop. Also a former professional StarCraft player and world record holder in rowing.

Web3ResearchOperations
21 VCs
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Red Xiao
@red_xiao_

Founder & CEO of Manus, an AI company. Limited public information available about previous experience.

Founder
21 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
21 VCs
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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
20 VCs
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Cofounder of Wafer (YC S25). Previously worked at Two Sigma, Google, and Sei Network. University of Chicago alum.

FundedTechnicalResearch
20 VCs

Former Palantir executive who led Forward Deployed AI Engineering and US Commercial operations, now CEO & Co-Founder of Edra.

Technical
19 VCs
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Andrew M. Dai
@andrewdai

Former director and principal researcher at Google DeepMind where he led the Gemini Data Area. Now co-founder and CEO of a stealth startup working on deep learning and LLMs.

TechnicalResearch
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
19 VCs
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Francesca LaBianca
@francesca_lab

Building Factory, an AI software development platform.

Founder
19 VCs
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