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.

Danny studied CS at the University of Chicago and excelled with 5 frontier LLMs during his month-long internship at Wafer.

Ian co-founded Willow in YCombinator’s Summer '24 batch. He studied CS at Stanford and was concertmaster of the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra.

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.

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.

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.