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AI / ML Founder Directory

Founders building companies in artificial intelligence and machine learning.

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Madeline Park
@madelinehpark

Columbia grad who worked in ML at Uber, then became a scout at Pear VC and Neo Scholar at Neo. Now co-founder and CEO of Vega, building with @benleejamin.

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

FundedTechnicalResearch
7 VCs
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Xavier De Gracia
@xdegracia

Founder of Prosper AI, building AI voice agents for healthcare enterprises.

Founder
7 VCs
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Kabir Nagrecha
@kabirnagrecha

PhD from UCSD who worked as a research scientist at Meta and generative AI systems researcher at Netflix before co-founding Tessera Labs.

FundedResearch
7 VCs
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Patrick Kidger
@patrickkidger

Ex-Google and Oxford researcher who worked on neural ODEs and contributed to the open-source JAX ecosystem. Previously at Cradle, now working on something new combining antibodies and AI to cure diseases.

Research
7 VCs
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Lane Burgett
@laneburgett

CS/Math student at Vanderbilt and Z Fellow, now co-founder of Acre Robotics working on computer vision for agriculture. Previously interned at Scale AI and worked as a research software engineer at Vanderbilt.

TechnicalResearchStudent
7 VCs

Stanford CS grad and product manager with experience at multiple companies, now co-founder of Human Behavior AI (YC W25).

FundedTechnicalProductMarketing
7 VCs
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LangChain
@langchain

Machine Learning Engineer at Kensho Technologies and Robust Intelligence, now co-founder and CEO of LangChain, a platform for agent engineering and makers of LangSmith.

FundedWeb3
7 VCs
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Ashley Ha
@ashleybchae

UC Berkeley data science student turned ML engineer at Rivian, now building browser agents. Previously served as Director of Industry at Berkeley Codeology.

ResearchStudent
7 VCs
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Francesca LaBianca
@francesca_lab

Building Factory, an AI software development platform.

Founder
7 VCs
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