Steven has worked on High Performance Computing and AI infrastructure at Two Sigma, Google, and Sei Labs. He earned his BS and MS in Computer Science from the University of Chicago.
Maximize intelligence per watt by using AI to optimize AI infrastructure
A small, in-person team in SF working on performance across accelerators, architectures, and all stack layers.
Founders
Emilio did ML security research at UChicago (NeurIPS '22) and researched weather models at Argonne National Lab. He studied Mathematics at the University of Chicago.
Engineering
John developed data center automation software at AWS and studied Computer Science at the University of Chicago. He also served as a Lieutenant in the Singapore Armed Forces.
Ian co-founded Willow in YCombinator’s Summer '24 batch. He studied CS at Stanford and was concertmaster of the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra.
Diffusion inference at UC Merced, inference optimization at Yotta Labs. CS at UChicago.
George was an early engineer at Axiom Exchange and previously worked at Stripe and Optiver. He studied Computer Science at UCLA.
Rohan previously wrote kernels for the Trainium chip at AWS Annapurna Labs. He studied Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley.
Guan studied Math & CS at the University of Chicago and has published papers in computer graphics and human-robot interaction.
Jason co-founded Panels as part of Y Combinator’s S25 batch. He studied Financial Engineering and Computer Science at Princeton University.
Sales & Operations
JV was Founding GTM at Alluxio, backed by a16z, where he built an AI outbound engine that 2.5x’d pipeline. He was also the top enterprise rep in North America for generated pipeline at Oracle.
Eugene led operations at Mercor and was 30 under 30 for classical music in Canada. He studied Applied Math in Computer Science and Economics at Harvard.
Gabrielle supported events at Y Combinator and managed funding for student organizations at UC Berkeley, where she earned her BA in Statistics.
Ryan has closed 500+ deals in tech sales and built AI infra GTM for Latitude.sh and Megaport. He previously worked at Oracle and Apple.
Risa built infra at Binance, worked at Susa Ventures and IB at Citi. She studied at UC Berkeley.
