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.

Steven Arellano

Steven Arellano

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 Andere

Emilio Andere

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.

John Hahn

John Hahn

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 Ye

Ian Ye

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

Danny Liu

Danny Liu

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

George Zhou

George Zhou

George was an early engineer at Axiom Exchange and previously worked at Stripe and Optiver. He studied Computer Science at UCLA.

Rohan Gopalam

Rohan Gopalam

Rohan previously wrote kernels for the Trainium chip at AWS Annapurna Labs. He studied Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley.

JV Cosico

JV Cosico

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 Ye

Eugene Ye

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 Reyes

Gabrielle Reyes

Gabrielle supported events at Y Combinator and managed funding for student organizations at UC Berkeley, where she earned her BA in Statistics.

Backed By

Marathon

Chemistry

Wing

AMD Ventures

Outset Capital

Fifty Years

Y Combinator

Liquid 2

NVIDIA Inception

Jeff Dean

Woj Zaremba

Dan Fu

Charlie Songhurst

Arash Ferdowsi

Kawal Gandhi

Guillermo Rauch

Andy Fang

Kyle Vogt

Akshay Kothari

Matthew Prince

Scott Stephenson

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