YC Cofounder Match

29
G

Giovanni Zaarour

passed
V

Viren Khandal

passed
K

Kunal Fule

passed
C

Christoph Zeizel

passed
A

Akshat Goel

passed
M

Monika rajput

passed
P

Parth Nandaniya

passed
S

Shalin Patel

passed
A

Anthony-Lee Sanchez

passed
Y

Yonathan Daniel

passed
M

Mo Alaoudi

passed
S

S.M. Sultan Mahmud Rahat

passed
Z

Zeeshaan Hakeem

passed
A

Arpad Voros

passed
S

Saurav Sharma

passed
K

K H

Toronto
passed
Non-Bay Area (Toronto)
O

Opeyemi Arogundade

San Francisco
passed
Committed to own idea (Fisher)
I

Ishaan Chaturvedi

San Francisco
passed
Committed to own idea, just wants to chat
N

NandaKiran Velaga

San Francisco, CA
contacted
Agentic AI background, UMD MS, Ford AI intern, co-founded Yunaki. Technical looking for GTM cofounder.
H

Harshil Patel

24 years old • Jersey City, NJ
passed
GEN-R biotech founder, non-technical.
W

Wyatt Holst

28 years old • Austin, MN
passed
CogniBid founder. Non-technical.
S

Sam Larson

28 years old • San Francisco, CA
passed
Pebble ML founder, committed to idea, raising $1.5M pre-seed.
M

Mohammad Tanzil Idrisi

23 years old • San Francisco, CA, USA
pending
CS & Math (Beloit College 25). Meta SWE intern, CMU SCS ML Research Fellow, DAAD Research Fellow Germany, Shopify. Sold first AR/VR video conferencing company (FractalXR) at 17 to Box Ally. Co-founded Convertive (by Outhad AI), raised $250k VC, scaled to $1M+ ARR in 8 months, acqui-hired. Open to exploring ideas in Physical AI, Health AI, robotics, B2B AI.
H

Hevar Abrihem

25 years old • San Francisco, CA
pending
2x exited founder (Built MoonGate, acquired by MoonPay; built Wutzu, acquired by MetroSpeedy). Former CTO at MoonGate (2023-2024) & MoonPay (2024-2026), Head of Engineering at MetroSpeedy. Deep infrastructure / systems & Solana / crypto / AI tooling experience. Open to pivoting / exploring new ideas.
M

Mahdi Honarmand

28 years old • Stanford, CA
pending
Stanford AI/ML PhD candidate (2026), advised by Fei-Fei Li. Published first-author papers at CVPR (’23, ’25, ’26), NeurIPS (’24), and ICML (’23). Ex-Apple ML Research Intern leading multimodal LLM research, Intuitive AI Research Intern. Looking to build AI-core products end-to-end, ready within 3 months, open to new ideas or helping with existing idea.
A

Atreyo Pal

28 years old • Palo Alto, CA
pending
Senior Scientist at Illumina AI Laboratory. Yale PhD in Genetics (2025), UChicago BA Physics & BS Biology. Carolyn Slayman Prize winner. Working on AI x Genetics/Bio, open to exploring ideas, ready within 3 months.
R

Rudy Agrawal

25 years old • Santa Clara, CA
pending
Firmware Engineer at AWS (Graviton and Trainium boot/server management). Purdue MS in ECE (2024). Built Trana (iOS circadian rhythm tracker using on-device cosinor ML) and 5-agent AI pipeline for legal citation verification (SF hackathon winner). Open to exploring ideas, ready within 3 months.
A

Adonai Addo

24 years old • San Francisco, CA
pending
Ex-Meta AI Engineer, 2x Ex-Microsoft SWE, Google AI Research. Med school dropout. Bootstrapped previous startup to 100k ARR while at Tufts. Building a space company (Poiesis).
S

Saad Kadri

24 years old • San Francisco, CA
pending
Software engineer, founding engineer at AnswerThis (YC-25) building agentic research workspaces (Claude, RAG, FastAPI, Redis) for 200K+ researchers. Built open-source Consilium.