AI / ML Founder Directory

Founders building companies in artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Nicolai Ouporov

Machine learning researcher at Columbia AI and Robotics Lab, then founding engineer at Respell (acquired by Salesforce). Now co-founder and CEO of Fleet AI, working on AI simulation environments.

TechnicalResearch

Followed by 18 Top VCs18 VCs

Hunter Leath

@jhleath

Ex-Netflix and AWS engineer now building Archil (YC F24), a cloud storage solution for AI companies to manage data.

FundedTechnicalProduct

Followed by 18 Top VCs18 VCs

Nim Ravid

@nim_ravid1

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

Founder

Followed by 18 Top VCs18 VCs

Lucky

@lucky_z2

Startup founder focused on how AI will revolutionize social networks.

Founder

Followed by 17 Top VCs17 VCs

Sasha Malysheva

@aimalysheva

PhD in Reinforcement Learning, previously at DeepMind and Google X. Currently building something for LLM communication and part of South Park Commons F25 cohort.

TechnicalResearch

Followed by 17 Top VCs17 VCs

Peter Wang

@brainsandtennis

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

Research

Followed by 17 Top VCs17 VCs

Tamay Besiroglu

@tamaybes

Research scientist at MIT turned co-founder of Epoch AI and now CEO of Mechanize, building AI automation tools for knowledge work.

ResearchOperations

Followed by 16 Top VCs16 VCs

Walter Goodwin

@goodwin_ml

CEO & Founder of Fractile, building planet-scale AI inferencing infrastructure.

Founder

Followed by 16 Top VCs16 VCs

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

Followed by 16 Top VCs16 VCs

Emilio Andere

@gpuemi

Co-founder of Wafer, working on fast LLM inference technology.

Founder

Followed by 16 Top VCs16 VCs

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