Founders

Founders (2420)

• Greg Brockman1 founding

  Founded OpenAI

• Sam Altman1 founding

  CEO of OpenAI Robotics.

  Founded OpenAI

• Wojciech Zaremba1 founding

  Member of OpenAI's founding team in December 2015.

  Founded OpenAI

• Andrej Karpathy1 founding

  Member of OpenAI's founding team in December 2015; later led AI at Tesla.

  Founded OpenAI

• Durk Kingma1 founding

  Member of OpenAI's founding team in December 2015.

  Founded OpenAI

• Ilya Sutskever1 founding

  OpenAI co-founder and former chief scientist; later co-founded Safe Superintelligence.

  Founded OpenAI

• Pamela Vagata1 founding

  Member of OpenAI's founding team in December 2015.

  Founded OpenAI

• Trevor Blackwell1 founding

  Member of OpenAI's founding team in December 2015.

  Founded OpenAI

• Vicki Cheung1 founding

  Member of OpenAI's founding team in December 2015.

  Founded OpenAI

• Ziv Aviram1 founding

  Co-founder and former President/CEO of Mobileye (no current operational role); co-founder and CEO of OrCam.

  Founded Mobileye

• Peter Carlsson1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Northvolt, a European battery manufacturer.

  Founded Northvolt

• Brian Schimpf1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Anduril Industries; previously an engineering leader at Palantir Technologies.

  Founded Anduril Industries

• Joe Chen1 founding

  Co-founder of Anduril Industries; previously a hardware product lead at Oculus VR and a paratrooper in the US Army National Guard.

  Founded Anduril Industries

• Matt Grimm1 founding

  Co-founder and COO of Anduril Industries; previously at Palantir Technologies.

  Founded Anduril Industries

• Trae Stephens1 founding

  Co-founder and executive chairman of Anduril Industries and a partner at venture firm Founders Fund; previously at Palantir Technologies.

  Founded Anduril Industries

• Deise Yumi Asami1 founding

  Founder of [Maximo](/models/maximo) at [AES Corporation](/companies/aes-corporation), leading the development and incubation of the AI-enabled robotic platform ...

  Founded AES Corporation

• Liang Wenfeng1 founding

  Founded DeepSeek

• Brian Katz1 founding

  Co-founder and President of PowerHouse Data Centers and American Real Estate Partners (AREP). Oversees strategic growth and fund management.

  Founded PowerHouse Data Centers

• Douglas Fleit1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of PowerHouse Data Centers and American Real Estate Partners (AREP). Leading hyperscale data center development across the US with a 6 GW pip...

  Founded PowerHouse Data Centers

• Daniel Kan1 founding

  Co-founder and former CPO of Cruise (resigned 2023); later founded Fifth Door.

  Founded Cruise

• Bobby Murphy1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Snap Inc., which he created as Snapchat with Evan Spiegel and Reggie Brown while they were students at Stanford University. He graduated f...

  Founded Snap Inc

• Evan Spiegel1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Snap Inc. In 2011, while at Stanford, he proposed an ephemeral messaging app as a product design class project and launched it with classm...

  Founded Snap Inc

• Reggie Brown1 founding

  Reggie Brown is a former early Snapchat employee who sued Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy in 2013, alleging they took his original idea. He claimed co-founder sta...

  Founded Snap Inc

• Cheng Wei1 founding

  Chinese businessman and founder, chairman, and CEO of DiDi (DiDi Chuxing), a mobile transportation platform with global operations. Born May 19, 1983 in Shangra...

  Founded Didi Chuxing

• Jean Liu1 founding

  Co-founder and former President of Didi Chuxing. Stepped down from president and board roles in May 2024 after a decade; remains as Permanent Partner and Chief ...

  Founded Didi Chuxing

• Grant van Rooyen1 founding

  Grant van Rooyen is the former CEO and president of Cologix. In 2022 he was named to run Tract, a new data center land company launched by Columbia Capital, the...

  Founded Tract

• Andrew Reiter1 founding

  Co-founder and Technical Fellow at Shield AI (its original CTO until 2018); previously at Draper Laboratory (visual-inertial guidance, autonomous quadrotors). M...

  Founded Shield AI

• Brandon Tseng1 founding

  Co-founder and President of Shield AI; a former US Navy SEAL.

  Founded Shield AI

• Ryan Tseng1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Shield AI; previously founded wireless-power company WiPower (acquired by Qualcomm).

  Founded Shield AI

• Justin Lopas1 founding

  Co-founder and COO of Base Power. Co-founded the company with Zach Dell in 2023. Leads operations and manufacturing at Base's Austin factory.

  Founded Base Power

• Zach Dell1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Base Power, a home battery and VPP startup. Son of Dell Technologies founder Michael Dell. Founded Base Power in 2023.

  Founded Base Power

• Josh Payne1 founding

  Founded Nscale

• Gundbert Scherf1 founding

  Co-founder and co-CEO of Helsing, the European defense-AI company; previously a German Ministry of Defence official and a McKinsey partner.

  Founded Helsing

• Niklas Koehler1 founding

  Co-founder of Helsing, the European defense-AI company.

  Founded Helsing

• Torsten Reil1 founding

  Co-founder and co-CEO of Helsing; previously founded animation-technology company NaturalMotion.

  Founded Helsing

• Mary Meeker1 founding

  Legendary technology analyst and investor, founder of BOND Capital in 2018 after leaving Kleiner Perkins. Known for her annual Internet Trends Report (published...

  Founded Bond

• Robert Shostak1 founding

  Computer scientist and entrepreneur who co-founded Vocera Communications in 2000, serving as CTO and chief architect. Previously co-founded Ansa Software (Parad...

  Founded Vocera Communications

• Keenan Wyrobek1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO / Head of Product & Engineering of Zipline; previously co-founded the Personal Robotics Program at Willow Garage (PR2 robot, ROS) and the PR1...

  Founded Zipline

• Keller Rinaudo Cliffton1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Zipline; previously founded Romotive. AB in Economics & Biotechnology from Harvard.

  Founded Zipline

• Ryan Oksenhorn1 founding

  Co-founder of Zipline; previously at Romotive. BS in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon.

  Founded Zipline

• Will Hetzler1 founding

  Co-founder and former COO of Zipline (departed ~2021); previously a consultant at Oliver Wyman. AB from Harvard.

  Founded Zipline

• Ingvar Hognaland1 founding

  Founder AutoStore (1996-); Norwegian inventor of cube-based automated storage and retrieval system; holds core patents on grid-based robotics.

  Founded AutoStore

• Dino Mavrookas1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Saronic, the autonomous surface-vessel company; a former US Navy SEAL.

  Founded Saronic Technologies

• Doug Lambert1 founding

  Co-founder and COO of Saronic; previously Head of Engineering at Liquid Robotics and VP Engineering at Terradepth.

  Founded Saronic Technologies

• Rob Lehman1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Commercial Officer of Saronic; a 21-year US Marine Corps officer (Lt. Col.); previously at Northrop Grumman and ManTech.

  Founded Saronic Technologies

• Vibhav Altekar1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Saronic; previously an early engineer at Anduril (Royal Australian Navy Ghost Shark) and at Twitter.

  Founded Saronic Technologies

• Dave Ferguson1 founding

  Co-founder and Co-CEO of Nuro; previously a principal ML engineer on the Google self-driving project / Waymo. PhD in robotics from Carnegie Mellon.

  Founded Nuro

• Jiajun Zhu1 founding

  Co-founder and Co-CEO of Nuro; previously a principal software engineer on the Google self-driving project / Waymo.

  Founded Nuro

• Alex Kendall1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Wayve, the London-based end-to-end autonomous driving company. PhD from the University of Cambridge.

  Founded Wayve

• Amar Shah1 founding

  Co-founder and initial CEO of Wayve (2017-2020, departed); now Founder & Partner at Dhyan Ventures. PhD in machine learning from the University of Cambridge (Gh...

  Founded Wayve

• Peng Xiao1 founding

  Peng Xiao serves as Group CEO of G42, the Abu Dhabi-based AI technology holding company that received a US$1.5B investment from Microsoft in 2024.

  Founded G42

• JoeBen Bevirt1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Joby Aviation, which he started in 2009 to develop all-electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft. He earlier co-founded Velocity11 and f...

  Founded Joby Aviation

• Chen Li1 founding

  Co-founder of Unitree Robotics (commercial / sales); previously in international sales at Hikvision. Current involvement not publicly confirmed.

  Founded Unitree Robotics

• Wang Xingxing1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Unitree Robotics (founded 2016), the Hangzhou-based quadruped and humanoid robot maker.

  Founded Unitree Robotics

• Xingxing Wang1 founding

  Founded Unitree Robotics, leading it to global leadership in quadrupedal and humanoid robots with .7B valuation.

  Founded Unitree Robotics

• Brendan Iribe1 founding

  Co-founder and former CEO of Oculus VR; previously co-founded Scaleform before joining Oculus in 2012.

  Founded Oculus VR

• Michael Antonov1 founding

  Co-founder of Oculus VR; previously co-founded Scaleform, a UI middleware company acquired by Autodesk.

  Founded Oculus VR

• Nate Mitchell1 founding

  Co-founder of Oculus VR, focused on product development for the Rift and Quest headset line.

  Founded Oculus VR

• Amir Haghighat1 founding

  Founded Baseten

• Pankaj Gupta1 founding

  Founded Baseten

• Phil Howes1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Scientist of Baseten, the AI inference platform founded in 2019.

  Founded Baseten

• Tuhin Srivastava1 founding

  Founded Baseten

• Andrew Tulloch1 founding

  Co-founder of Thinking Machines Lab; previously worked on pretraining and reasoning.

  Founded Thinking Machines Lab

• Barret Zoph1 founding

  Co-founder of Thinking Machines Lab and its first CTO; former VP of research at OpenAI.

  Founded Thinking Machines Lab

• Lilian Weng1 founding

  Co-founder of Thinking Machines Lab; previously worked on AI safety and robotics at OpenAI.

  Founded Thinking Machines Lab

• Luke Metz1 founding

  Co-founder of Thinking Machines Lab; previously worked on post-training at OpenAI.

  Founded Thinking Machines Lab

• Mira Murati1 founding

  CEO and co-founder of Thinking Machines Lab; former CTO of OpenAI.

  Founded Thinking Machines Lab

• Chris Urmson1 founding

  Co-founder, CEO and Chairman of Aurora; previously CTO of the Google self-driving project and technical director of CMU's DARPA Grand/Urban Challenge teams. PhD...

  Founded Aurora Innovation

• Drew Bagnell1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Scientist of Aurora; previously autonomy/perception lead at Uber ATG and a tenured professor at CMU. PhD in robotics from Carnegie Mellon.

  Founded Aurora Innovation

• Sterling Anderson1 founding

  Co-founder of Aurora (departed June 2025 to become Chief Product Officer of General Motors); previously head of Tesla Autopilot.

  Founded Aurora Innovation

• James Zhou1 founding

  Founder and CEO of UBTech Robotics (HKEX: 9880). Shenzhen-based humanoid and smart service robot maker. Walker industrial humanoid deployed at manufacturing fac...

  Founded UBTech Robotics

• Xiong Youjun1 founding

  Co-founder, CTO and executive director of UBTECH Robotics; also GM of the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center. Doctorate from Huazhong University of Scienc...

  Founded UBTech Robotics

• Abhinav Gupta1 founding

  Co-founder of Skild AI and professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute.

  Founded Skild AI

• Deepak Pathak1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Skild AI and assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University. PhD from UC Berkeley.

  Founded Skild AI

• Benny Chen1 founding

  Co-founder of Fireworks AI, the generative AI inference platform founded in 2022.

  Founded Fireworks AI

• Chenyu Zhao1 founding

  Co-founder of Fireworks AI, the generative AI inference platform founded in 2022.

  Founded Fireworks AI

• Dmytro Dzhulgakov1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Fireworks AI.

  Founded Fireworks AI

• Dmytro Ivchenko1 founding

  Co-founder of Fireworks AI, the generative AI inference platform founded in 2022.

  Founded Fireworks AI

• Lin Qiao1 founding

  Founded Fireworks AI

• Pawel Garbacki1 founding

  Co-founder of Fireworks AI, the generative AI inference platform founded in 2022.

  Founded Fireworks AI

• Jesse Levinson1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Zoox; previously led the self-driving team at Stanford under Sebastian Thrun (DARPA Urban Challenge). PhD from Stanford.

  Founded Zoox

• Tim Kentley-Klay1 founding

  Co-founder and former CEO of Zoox (ousted by the board in 2018).

  Founded Zoox

• Damion Shelton1 founding

  Co-founder and Chairman of Agility Robotics; served as CEO from the 2015 founding until 2024, when he transitioned to chairman and Peggy Johnson became CEO.

  Founded Agility Robotics

• Jonathan Hurst1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Robot Officer of Agility Robotics (formerly CTO) and a robotics professor at Oregon State University, whose lab built the ATRIAS, Cassie an...

  Founded Agility Robotics

• Mikhail Jones1 founding

  Co-founder and VP of Software Engineering at Agility Robotics; as a graduate student under Jonathan Hurst at Oregon State he was lead developer of the control s...

  Founded Agility Robotics

• Aviv Shapira1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of XTEND, an Israeli AI-powered robotics and drone operating-system company founded in 2018. Former Israeli Air Force missile test director; ...

  Founded XTEND

• David Reger1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Germany's Neura Robotics (founded 2019), maker of the 4NE-1 humanoid; credited with popularizing the term 'cognitive robotics'.

  Founded NEURA Robotics

• Sugeeth Gopinathan1 founding

  Co-founder and VP of Project & Product Management at Neura Robotics.

  Founded NEURA Robotics

• Brannin McBee1 founding

  Founded CoreWeave

• Brian Venturo1 founding

  Founded CoreWeave

• Michael Intrator1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of CoreWeave, the AI hyperscaler powering AI at production scale.

  Founded CoreWeave

• Peter Salanki1 founding

  Founded CoreWeave

• Michael Intrator1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of CoreWeave.

  Founded CoreWeave

• Luis Sentis1 founding

  Co-founder and Scientific Advisor of Apptronik; associate professor at UT Austin and a former NASA Johnson Space Center contractor. PhD from Stanford.

  Founded Apptronik

• Nicholas Paine1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Apptronik; PhD in robotics from the UT Austin Human Centered Robotics Lab.

  Founded Apptronik

• Mo Chen1 founding

  Co-founder of TuSimple and Chairman of CreateAI (the generative-AI gaming/animation company TuSimple rebranded into after exiting US autonomous trucking and del...

  Founded TuSimple

• Meisong Lai1 founding

  Founder, Chairman and CEO of ZTO Express, China's largest express delivery company by parcel volume. Founded the company in 2002 in Shanghai and led it to dual ...

  Founded ZTO Express

• Rick Cohen1 founding

  Founder, Chairman and CEO of Symbotic; also Chairman, President and CEO of C&S Wholesale Grocers. BS from Wharton.

  Founded Symbotic

• Stephen Fitzpatrick1 founding

  Founder and CEO Vertical Aerospace (2016-); previously founded OVO Energy; built eVTOL company with focus on UK air taxi market.

  Founded Vertical Aerospace

• Ce Zhang1 founding

  Founded Together AI

• Chris Re1 founding

  Founded Together AI

• Percy Liang1 founding

  Founded Together AI

• Tri Dao1 founding

  Founded Together AI

• Vipul Ved Prakash1 founding

  Founded Together AI

• Kari Kivela1 founding

  Co-founder of Oura (hardware / design); departed the executive team by ~2020.

  Founded Oura

• Markku Koskela1 founding

  Co-founder of Oura (R&D); departed the executive team.

  Founded Oura

• Petteri Lahtela1 founding

  Co-founder and former CEO of Oura; Finnish health-technology entrepreneur.

  Founded Oura

• Ben Mildenhall1 founding

  Co-founder of World Labs. Creator of neural radiance fields (NeRF), a breakthrough in 3D reconstruction and generative graphics.

  Founded World Labs

• Christoph Lassner1 founding

  Co-founder of World Labs. Pioneer in graphics, reconstruction, and data; creator of Pulsar which predated gaussian splatting. Stepped away from active role in e...

  Founded World Labs

• Fei-Fei Li1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of World Labs. Stanford professor, co-director of Stanford HAI, creator of ImageNet, former Chief Scientist of AI/ML at Google Cloud.

  Founded World Labs

• Justin Johnson1 founding

  Co-founder of World Labs. AI and computer vision researcher, former professor at University of Michigan, PhD from Fei-Fei Li's lab at Stanford.

  Founded World Labs

• Akshat Bubna1 founding

  Founded Modal Labs

• Erik Bernhardsson1 founding

  Founded Modal Labs

• Yin Tongyue1 founding

  Executive at Chery Robotics, the robotics division of Chinese automaker Chery Automobile.

  Founded Chery Automobile

• An Conghui (Andy An)1 founding

  CEO and co-founder of Zeekr, Geely's premium electric vehicle brand founded in March 2021. Also serves as CEO of Geely Auto Group, appointed in May 2025 as part...

  Founded Zeekr

• Adam Sachs1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Vicarious Surgical (2014-2024); met co-founder Sammy Khalifa at MIT. Led company through $1.1B SPAC merger with D8 Holdings (October 2021)...

  Founded Vicarious Surgical

• Barry Greene1 founding

  Co-founder and medical advisor at Vicarious Surgical; board-certified bariatric and general surgeon with 25+ years of laparoscopic experience; provided the clin...

  Founded Vicarious Surgical

• Sammy Khalifa1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Vicarious Surgical (2014-2024); met CEO Adam Sachs as MIT undergraduates. Previously at Apple. Led hardware and software development of th...

  Founded Vicarious Surgical

• Tom Markusic1 founding

  Co-founder and former CEO of Firefly Aerospace (2014-2022); now board member and Chief Technical Advisor. PhD in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princ...

  Founded Firefly Aerospace

• Austin Russell1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Luminar Technologies (founded 2012), which he started at age 17 while a physics student at Stanford. Received a $100,000 Thiel Fellowship in ...

  Founded Luminar Technologies

• Adnan Esmail1 founding

  Co-founder of Physical Intelligence (hardware / engineering leadership); previously in Hardware Technologies at Tesla and SVP of Engineering at Anduril Industri...

  Founded Physical Intelligence

• Brian Ichter1 founding

  Co-founder of Physical Intelligence; previously a research scientist in Google DeepMind robotics.

  Founded Physical Intelligence

• Chelsea Finn1 founding

  Co-founder of Physical Intelligence and assistant professor at Stanford; previously at Google Brain. PhD from UC Berkeley.

  Founded Physical Intelligence

• Karol Hausman1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Physical Intelligence; previously a senior research scientist in Google Brain / Google DeepMind robotics and adjunct faculty at Stanford.

  Founded Physical Intelligence

• Lachy Groom1 founding

  Co-founder of Physical Intelligence; investor and operator, previously an early executive at Stripe.

  Founded Physical Intelligence

• Quan Vuong1 founding

  Co-founder and researcher at Physical Intelligence (cross-embodiment learning); previously a software engineer at Google DeepMind. PhD from UC San Diego (report...

  Founded Physical Intelligence

• Sergey Levine1 founding

  Co-founder of Physical Intelligence and associate professor at UC Berkeley; previously a research scientist at Google Brain. PhD from Stanford.

  Founded Physical Intelligence

• Aurelian Nicolae1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Hardware Engineer of WHOOP.

  Founded Whoop

• Will Ahmed1 founding

  Founder and CEO of WHOOP; conceived the company as a Harvard undergraduate.

  Founded Whoop

• Aurelian Broussard1 founding

  Co-founder WHOOP; Harvard classmate; early product and operations leadership.

  Founded Whoop

• John Capodilupo1 founding

  Co-founder of WHOOP and its CTO until 2022.

  Founded Whoop

• Christophe Lavigne1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of LDR Holding Corporation, led the company from its French origins through its 2013 NASDAQ IPO and 2016 acquisition by Zimmer Biomet for ~$1...

  Founded LDR Holding Corporation

• Raquel Urtasun1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Waabi (founded 2021); previously chief scientist at Uber ATG and a professor at the University of Toronto. PhD from EPFL.

  Founded Waabi

• Nevada Sanchez1 founding

  Nevada Sanchez co-founded Butterfly Network and developed the Ultrasound-on-Chip technology behind the Butterfly iQ. Named Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2015.

  Founded Butterfly Network

• Jonathan Rothberg1 founding

  Scientist and entrepreneur who invented next-generation DNA sequencing; founded Butterfly Network in 2011 after seeing a talk by MIT's Ed Boyden. Previously fou...

  Founded Butterfly Network

• Tyler S. Ralston1 founding

  Tyler S. Ralston co-founded Butterfly Network.

  Founded Butterfly Network

• Karan Kunjur1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of K2 Space, a Los Angeles-based satellite platform manufacturer building large, high-power satellite buses for defense and commercial use. F...

  Founded K2 Space

• Chen Xiaobo1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Shihang Intelligence (SEAHI Robotics), an ocean robotics company. Born in 1989, he is an alumnus of Harbin Engineering University and won a F...

  Founded Shihang Intelligent

• Matt A'Hearn1 founding

  Managing Partner and Founder of IPI Partners; became Head of Blue Owl's digital infrastructure strategy following the October 2024 acquisition.

  Founded Blue Owl/IPI

• Ljubisa Bajic1 founding

  Founder of Tenstorrent (2016, Toronto); CEO from founding until May 2026 when he transitioned to CTO as Jim Keller took the CEO role. Serial entrepreneur in chi...

  Founded Tenstorrent

• Daniel Ek1 founding

  Chairman of the board of Helsing (via his investment vehicle Prima Materia, which led major rounds); co-founder and CEO of Spotify.

  Founded Neko Health

• Eren Bali1 founding

  Turkish-born engineer and technology entrepreneur, co-founder of Udemy and Carbon Health. Born in Malatya, Turkey; based in the United States. Returned to Udemy...

  Founded Udemy

• Gagan Biyani1 founding

  American serial entrepreneur of Indian descent, co-founder of Udemy, Sprig, and Maven. Born May 30, 1987.

  Founded Udemy

• Oktay Caglar1 founding

  Turkish engineer and entrepreneur, co-founder of Udemy. Created a live virtual classroom while living in Turkey before co-founding Udemy with Eren Bali and Gaga...

  Founded Udemy

• Kai Sun1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Scientist of Hesai Technology. Previously research associate at Stanford University before co-founding Hesai in October 2014.

  Founded Hesai Technology

• Shaoqing Xiang1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Hesai Technology. Previously iPhone hardware systems integration engineer at Apple (2011-2014). Dual master's degrees...

  Founded Hesai Technology

• Yifan Li1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Hesai Technology (Nasdaq: HSAI), the Shanghai-based lidar manufacturer founded in 2014. Also referred to as David Li in Western-language s...

  Founded Hesai Technology

• Xu Zhisheng1 founding

  Founder and CEO of XPENG Robotics; developing Iron, a humanoid robot for manufacturing and home use

  Founded XPeng Robotics

• Renaud Heitz1 founding

  Co-founded Exotec in 2015 and serves as CTO; leads robotics and software engineering.

  Founded Exotec

• Romain Moulin1 founding

  Romain Moulin co-founded Exotec with Renaud Heitz in 2015. The company designs robotic order-picking systems, including the Skypod, and became the first French ...

  Founded Exotec

• Marc Raibert1 founding

  Founder of Boston Dynamics (1992 MIT spinoff). Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT; founded the Leg Lab at Carnegie Mellon in 1980. ...

  Founded Boston Dynamics

• Dr Yandong Eric Guo1 founding

  Founder and CEO of AI2 Robotics, one of China's rare experts combining deep capabilities in AI and intelligent robotics. Commercializing AlphaBot 2 at $2.8B val...

  Founded AI2 Robotics

• Andy Lapsa1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Stoke Space, developing fully reusable rockets. Co-founded Stoke in 2019 with Tom Feldman after eight years at Blue Origin leading BE-3 an...

  Founded Stoke Space

• Sunghyun Park1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Rebellions, a Korean AI inference chip company.

  Founded Rebellions

• Guo Yandong1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Zhipingfang (AI2 Robotics), a Shenzhen-based embodied AI company making humanoid robots. Purdue PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering, f...

  Founded Zhipingfang

• Zhang Peng1 founding

  Co-founder of Zhipingfang (AI2 Robotics), demonstrated the AIBO robot at the 2025 Mass Innovation Heroes Gathering.

  Founded Zhipingfang

• Luke Hares1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer of CMR Surgical. Studied at the University of Cambridge.

  Founded CMR Surgical

• Mark Slack1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of CMR Surgical; a consultant gynaecologist at Addenbrooke's Hospital.

  Founded CMR Surgical

• Martin Frost1 founding

  Co-founded CMR Surgical in 2014 and served as CEO. CBE recipient with over 20 years of commercial leadership experience.

  Founded CMR Surgical

• Cesar Maklary1 founding

  Co-founder of Fluidstack, joined 2020; previously worked in aerodynamics for a Formula One team.

  Founded Fluidstack

• Gary Wu1 founding

  Co-founder of Fluidstack, which he started in 2017 with Jamie Cox after meeting at Oxford.

  Founded Fluidstack

• Jamie Cox1 founding

  Co-founder of Fluidstack (2017); left Oxford to become a Thiel Fellow.

  Founded Fluidstack

• He Wang1 founding

  Founder and CTO of Galbot (Galaxy General, founded 2023), maker of the G1 and the GraspVLA model; an assistant professor at Peking University's Center on Fronti...

  Founded Galbot

• Yao Tengzhou1 founding

  Co-founder and legal representative of Galbot (Galaxy General), bringing industrial-robotics hardware and mass-production experience from ABB's Shanghai robotic...

  Founded Galbot

• Zhang Bo1 founding

  Co-founder of DiDi and CEO of DiDi Autonomous Driving. Raised 81M in Series D, total .55B. Launching robotaxi pilot in UAE and developing L4 with GAC Aion.

  Founded Didi Autonomous Driving

• Cao Xudong1 founding

  Founder of Momenta, the Chinese autonomous driving company established in 2016.

  Founded Momenta Global

• Liu Guoqing1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Momenta Global (HKEX: 6880), a Chinese autonomous driving company. Raised 52M in Hong Kong IPO. Valued at 4.8B. Backed by GM and Tencent.

  Founded Momenta Global

• Kyle Clark1 founding

  Founder and CEO Beta Technologies (2017-); former professional baseball player and aviation entrepreneur; built eVTOL cargo and passenger aircraft with integrat...

  Founded Beta Technologies

• David Liu1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Plus (autonomous trucking); previously co-founded RMG Networks and worked at HP and McKinsey. PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford.

  Founded Plus

• David Liu1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of [Plus](/companies/plus), an AI-based virtual driver software company for factory-built autonomous trucks. He has over 20 years of experien...

  Founded Plus

• Hao Zheng1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Plus; previously a Senior Director at Yahoo Labs and CTO of Zynga Asia.

  Founded Plus

• Shawn Kerrigan1 founding

  Co-founder and COO of Plus; previously at Bridgewater Associates and McKinsey. PhD in engineering from Stanford.

  Founded Plus

• Tim Daly1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Architect of Plus; holder of 41 granted AV/AI patents.

  Founded Plus

• Ian Cinnamon1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Apex Space. MIT BS and Stanford MBA. Previously co-founded Synapse Technology (AI security, acquired by Palantir in 2020), then worked in ...

  Founded Apex Space

• Max Benassi1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Apex Space. Previously spent 6+ years at SpaceX as senior propulsion engineer working on Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, and Starlink, then served...

  Founded Apex Space

• Chen Yilun1 founding

  Founder & CEO of TARS Robotics. Former CTO of Autonomous Driving (ADS) at Huawei, Chief Computer Vision Engineer at DJI, and Chief Scientist of Intelligent Robo...

  Founded TARS Robotics

• Li Zhenyu1 founding

  Chairman and co-founder of TARS Robotics. Former President of Baidu's Intelligent Driving Group (IDG), where he led the Apollo autonomous driving platform.

  Founded TARS Robotics

• Stephan Wolf1 founding

  German engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded Volocopter (originally as e-volo GmbH) in 2011 with Alexander Zosel and Thomas Senkel. The Bruchsal-based compan...

  Founded Volocopter

• Alexander Zosel1 founding

  German entrepreneur and co-founder of Volocopter (2011) alongside Stephan Wolf; an inventor and builder who helped realize the first crewed multicopter proof-of...

  Founded Volocopter

• Abraham Bachrach1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Skydio; previously at Google[x] Project Wing; MIT robotics PhD (under Nicholas Roy).

  Founded Skydio

• Adam Bry1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Skydio; previously an early member of Google[x] Project Wing. SM in Aerospace Engineering from MIT.

  Founded Skydio

• Matt Donahoe1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Experience Officer of Skydio; previously at PocketGems and the MIT Media Lab.

  Founded Skydio

• Adam Jelley1 founding

  Founder of General Intuition, an AI company developing perception and decision-making systems.

  Founded General Intuition

• Eloi Alonso1 founding

  Founder of General Intuition, an AI company developing perception and decision-making systems.

  Founded General Intuition

• Pim de Witte1 founding

  CEO of General Intuition, an AI company developing perception and decision-making systems.

  Founded General Intuition

• Vincent Micheli1 founding

  Founder of General Intuition, an AI company developing perception and decision-making systems.

  Founded General Intuition

• James Peng1 founding

  Co-founder, CEO and Chairman of Pony.ai; previously Chief Architect of Baidu's autonomous-driving unit and a software engineer at Google. PhD from Stanford.

  Founded Pony AI

• Tiancheng Lou1 founding

  Co-founder, CTO and director of Pony.ai; previously a principal engineer at Baidu and an engineer at Google. PhD from Tsinghua.

  Founded Pony AI

• Tim Ellis1 founding

  Tim Ellis is co-founder and former CEO of Relativity Space, which he founded with Jordan Noone. He stepped away from the CEO position in March 2025 and remains ...

  Founded Relativity Space

• Jordan Noone1 founding

  Co-founder and former CTO of Relativity Space; left the company in 2020.

  Founded Relativity Space

• Omer David1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Innoviz Technologies (founded 2016), the Israeli solid-state lidar company headquartered in Neve Ilan, Israel. David co-founded Innoviz wi...

  Founded Innoviz Technologies

• Oren Rosenzweig1 founding

  Co-founder of Innoviz Technologies (founded 2016). Rosenzweig co-founded Innoviz alongside Omer David following careers in Israeli defense and technology. Innov...

  Founded Innoviz Technologies

• Chen Jianyu1 founding

  Founder and CEO of RobotEra (founded 2023), maker of the XBot-L and L7 humanoids; an assistant professor at Tsinghua University's Institute for Interdisciplinar...

  Founded Robot Era

• Jianyu Chen1 founding

  Founder of RobotEra, a Beijing-based humanoid robot company incubated by Tsinghua University. Founded in 2023. Raised over 00M led by SF Group, HSG, and IDG Cap...

  Founded Robot Era

• Alex Rodrigues1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Embark Trucks, the autonomous trucking company he started with Brandon Moak. He left the mechatronics engineering program at the Universit...

  Founded Embark Trucks

• Brandon Moak1 founding

  Co-founded Embark Trucks in 2016 as CTO; University of Waterloo graduate.

  Founded Embark Trucks

• Tom Mueller1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Impulse Space (founded 2021). SpaceX employee #1 (hired 2002 by Elon Musk from TRW). VP of Propulsion Engineering and later CTO of Propulsion...

  Founded Impulse Space

• Daniel Wiegand1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO Lilium (2015-); former Airbus engineer; designed 7-seat eVTOL jet with ducted electric vectored thrust.

  Founded Lilium

• Johannes Schaback1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Stark Defence, a Berlin-based strike drone startup founded in 2024 that raised EUR500M led by Sequoia Capital and Founders Fund at a valua...

  Founded Stark Defence

• Uwe Horstmann1 founding

  CEO of Stark Defence (appointed October 2025), the Berlin-based strike drone startup that raised EUR500M at a EUR3.5B+ valuation in 2026. Also a founding partne...

  Founded Stark Defence

• Yu Hao1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Dreame Technology, founded in 2017. Built the Suzhou-based home robotics company with backing from Xiaomi, raising 63M in Series C.

  Founded Dreame Technology

• Luke Holoubek1 founding

  Co-founder and engineer at The Bot Company, a San Francisco robotics startup founded by former Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt. Previously served as technical advisor to t...

  Founded The Bot Company

• Paril Jain1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of The Bot Company, a San Francisco robotics startup developing general-purpose humanoid robots. Previously served as tech lead and AI manage...

  Founded The Bot Company

• Luo Bingrong1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Geek+ (GeekPlus, founded 2015), Beijing-based AMR and robotic logistics company. Geek+ is one of the world's largest AMR manufacturers, se...

  Founded Geek+

• Yong Zheng1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Geek+, global leader in AMR manufacturing. 45% CAGR from 2021-2024, 74.6% customer repurchase rate.

  Founded Geek+

• Huang Guan1 founding

  Founder and CEO of GigaAI (极佳视界). PhD in automation from Tsinghua University. Leading GigaAI's development of embodied AI world models and general-purpose human...

  Founded GigaAI

• Eric Schmidt1 founding

  Former Google CEO who launched Perennial Autonomy (originally as White Stork) in 2023 to develop AI-enabled loitering munitions and counter-drone systems.

  Founded Perennial Autonomy

• Steven Barrett1 founding

  British aerospace engineer and co-founder/CEO of [Cambridge Aerospace](/companies/cambridge-aerospace), developing affordable interceptors for a European 'Iron ...

  Founded Cambridge Aerospace

• Darrick Horton1 founding

  Founded TensorWave

• Piotr Tomasik1 founding

  Founded TensorWave

• Christopher Cacioppo1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of 6 River Systems, leading technical strategy for warehouse fulfillment robots.

  Founded 6 River Systems

• Jerome Dubois1 founding

  Co-founded 6 River Systems in 2015 as co-CEO; previously at Kiva Systems (Amazon Robotics) as director of operations.

  Founded 6 River Systems

• Jonathan Webb1 founding

  Founder & CEO of AppHarvest. Building high-tech indoor farming in Appalachia, Kentucky. Large-scale controlled environment agriculture.

  Founded AppHarvest

• David Moloney1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Movidius; previously led chip architecture for the Myriad VPU product line.

  Founded Movidius

• Sean Mitchell1 founding

  Co-founder of Movidius in 2005, served as CEO before transitioning to chairman; later co-founded Provizio, an automotive safety sensor company.

  Founded Movidius

• Tang Sihua1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Leju Robotics (乐聚机器人, founded 2016), Shenzhen-based bipedal and humanoid robot company making the KUAVO and Robbie robots. Previously a gradu...

  Founded Leju Robotics

• AJ Piplica1 founding

  Aerospace engineer and entrepreneur. Co-founder and Chairman of Hermeus Corporation (founded 2018), an Atlanta-based startup developing Mach 5 hypersonic aircra...

  Founded Hermeus

• Dean Leitersdorf1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Decart, the real-time generative AI video company founded in 2023.

  Founded Decart

• Jagdeep Singh1 founding

  Serial entrepreneur who previously founded QuantumScape (solid-state battery company) and Infinera (telecom equipment). Founded Rhoda AI to bring video-predicti...

  Founded Rhoda AI

• Moshe Shalev1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Decart, the real-time generative AI video company founded in 2023.

  Founded Decart

• Ruben Bryon1 founding

  Founded Verda (formerly DataCrunch)

• Nathan Mintz1 founding

  Co-founder and former CEO of Epirus (2018-2020), a counter-drone technology company developing high-power microwave (HPM) systems. Stepped down as Epirus CEO in...

  Founded Epirus

• Amir Khosrowshahi1 founding

  CTO and co-founder of [Nervana Systems](/companies/nervana-systems), the deep-learning startup acquired by Intel for ~$408M in 2016. After the acquisition, Khos...

  Founded Nervana Systems

• Arjun Bansal1 founding

  VP Algorithms and co-founder of [Nervana Systems](/companies/nervana-systems), specializing in deep-learning software and neural-network optimization. After Int...

  Founded Nervana Systems

• Naveen Rao1 founding

  Neuroscientist-turned-entrepreneur who co-founded [Nervana Systems](/companies/nervana-systems) in 2014 to build AI-optimized hardware and software. After Intel...

  Founded Nervana Systems

• David Benhaim1 founding

  CTO and co-founder of Markforged, developing the technology behind the first carbon fiber and metal 3D printers.

  Founded Markforged

• Gregory Mark1 founding

  Founder of Markforged, invented the first carbon fiber 3D printer. Previously served as CEO before becoming Chairman.

  Founded Markforged

• Yang Jianbo1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Astribot (Stardust Intelligence, founded 2023), Shenzhen humanoid robot startup. Made viral video of fast-moving humanoid in 2023. Previously...

  Founded Stardust Intelligence

• Wan Jun1 founding

  CEO of DeepWay, a Chinese autonomous trucking company developing electric and autonomous freight vehicles.

  Founded DeepWay

• Ali Agha1 founding

  Founder and CEO of FieldAI (2023). Spent nearly a decade leading the Autonomous and Robotics systems division at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, including bui...

  Founded Field AI

• DMilo Hallerberg1 founding

  CEO of Arcturus UAV.

  Founded Arcturus UAV

• Angus Pacala1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Ouster (founded 2015), the San Francisco digital lidar company. Pacala co-founded Ouster alongside Mark Frichtl with the thesis of buildin...

  Founded Ouster

• Mark Frichtl1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Ouster (founded 2015). Frichtl co-founded Ouster with Angus Pacala and leads the company's hardware and sensor engineering. Ouster's digit...

  Founded Ouster

• Juerg Frefel1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Reliable Robotics. Previously an engineer at SpaceX for nearly a decade.

  Founded Reliable Robotics

• Robert Rose1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Reliable Robotics. Previously director of flight software at SpaceX, with earlier stints at Tesla and Google.

  Founded Reliable Robotics

• Dmitry Polishchuk1 founding

  CEO of Avride; founded and led Yandex's Self-Driving Group, from which Avride descends. Avride is now a subsidiary of Nebius Group. Previously ~12 years at Yand...

  Founded Avride

• Justin Gong1 founding

  Co-founder and Vice Chairman XAG (2014-); drives international expansion and strategic partnerships in precision agriculture drones.

  Founded XAG

• Al Dekin1 founding

  Chief Revenue Officer and co-founder of Locus Robotics; previously co-founder and SVP of Sales & Marketing at Quiet Logistics.

  Founded Locus Robotics

• Mike Johnson1 founding

  President, COO and co-founder of Locus Robotics; previously co-founded AllPoints Systems and Quiet Logistics with Bruce Welty.

  Founded Locus Robotics

• Sean Johnson1 founding

  CTO and co-founder of Locus Robotics; previously SVP of Information Systems at Quiet Logistics.

  Founded Locus Robotics

• Bruce Welty1 founding

  Founder and former Chairman/CEO of Locus Robotics; previously co-founded AllPoints Systems (1987) and Quiet Logistics (2009), out of which Locus was spun. BA fr...

  Founded Locus Robotics

• Edward Cheng1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Gaussian Robotics (Gausium), a Shanghai-based commercial cleaning robotics company he founded in 2013. Previously educated at the University ...

  Founded Gaussian Robotics

• Boris Sofman1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Bedrock Robotics. Former Waymo engineering leader. Building autonomous systems for construction.

  Founded Bedrock Robotics

• Kevin Peterson1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Bedrock Robotics. Former Waymo engineering leader.

  Founded Bedrock Robotics

• Bing Fang1 founding

  Co-founder and COO, HAI Robotics; supply chain and operations leadership; oversees global deployment and customer success.

  Founded HAI Robotics

• Jake Loosararian1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Gecko Robotics (Pittsburgh, PA), which develops robots for inspection and maintenance of critical infrastructure (power plants, refineries...

  Founded Gecko Robotics

• Marco Monteiro1 founding

  Co-founder of Gecko Robotics (Pittsburgh, PA). Co-founded with Jake Loosararian in 2013. Background in robotics engineering.

  Founded Gecko Robotics

• Richie Chen1 founding

  Founded HAI Robotics in 2016 and serves as CEO; leads development of the HAIPICK goods-to-person autonomous case-handling system.

  Founded HAI Robotics

• Troy Demmer1 founding

  Co-founder of Gecko Robotics (COO); co-founded the wall-climbing infrastructure-inspection robotics company with Jake Loosararian in 2016.

  Founded Gecko Robotics

• Shimon Elkabetz1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Tomorrow.io (formerly ClimaCell), a Boston-based weather intelligence and climate adaptation platform founded in 2016. Served 11 years in ...

  Founded Tomorrow.io

• Issei Takino1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Mujin; previously worked at Iscar (Warren Buffett's manufacturing company) before co-founding Mujin in 2011.

  Founded Mujin

• Rosen Diankov1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Mujin; PhD from CMU Robotics Institute in autonomous manipulation systems.

  Founded Mujin

• David Aninowsky1 founding

  Founder and executive chairman of Vultr.

  Founded Vultr

• Ren Guowen1 founding

  Co-founder of EngineAI; public-facing on the company's mass-production strategy and its 2025 funding push toward a $1B valuation.

  Founded EngineAI

• Wang Fei1 founding

  Founder and CEO of EngineAI (Shenzhen, founded 2023). Known for the SE01 humanoid robot demonstration that went viral for fluid bipedal locomotion. Building hum...

  Founded EngineAI

• Zhao Tongyang1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Shenzhen EngineAI Robotics (founded 2023), maker of the SE01 and PM01 humanoids; previously ran a quadruped-robot venture and co-founded XPen...

  Founded EngineAI

• Misa Zhu1 founding

  Mingming (Misa) Zhu is the founder and CEO of Rokid, a Chinese company that makes an AI voice assistant, smart devices and the Rokid Glass smart glasses.

  Founded Rokid

• Olaf Hichwa1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Neros; previously founded flight-controller maker OlaFPV.

  Founded Neros

• Soren Monroe-Anderson1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Neros (defense FPV drones); a former competitive drone-racing pilot (2020 MultiGP World Champion) who founded the company at ~19. No colle...

  Founded Neros

• Brian Raduenz1 founding

  Founder and Executive Chairman of AEVEX Aerospace. U.S. Air Force Academy graduate who built AEVEX into the largest U.S. drone supplier to Ukraine. Transitioned...

  Founded AEVEX Aerospace

• Craig Piggott1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Halter, the cattle virtual-fencing and smart-collar company; grew up on a New Zealand dairy farm.

  Founded Halter

• Alex Yeh1 founding

  Founded GMI Cloud

• Tony Han1 founding

  Founder, Chairman and CEO of WeRide; previously Chief Scientist of Baidu's autonomous-driving unit and a tenured professor at the University of Missouri. PhD fr...

  Founded WeRide

• Yan Li1 founding

  Co-founder, CTO and director of WeRide; previously a senior engineer at Facebook/Meta and an applied researcher at Microsoft. PhD from Carnegie Mellon.

  Founded WeRide

• Elram Goren1 founding

  Co-founder and former CEO of Fabric (formerly CommonSense Robotics), the robotic micro-fulfillment company founded in 2015.

  Founded Fabric

• Derek King1 founding

  Co-founder of Fetch Robotics; Willow Garage alumnus; part of the four-person founding team that commercialized AMRs for logistics.

  Founded Fetch Robotics

• Eric Diehr1 founding

  Co-founder of Fetch Robotics; Willow Garage alumnus; part of the four-person founding team.

  Founded Fetch Robotics

• Michael Ferguson1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Fetch Robotics; Willow Garage alumnus; co-authored the Fetch & Freight robotics platform. Expertise in robot software robustness and ease-...

  Founded Fetch Robotics

• Artem Sokolov1 founding

  Founder of Humanoid.

  Founded Humanoid

• Ethan Thornton1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Mach Industries. Founded the defense tech company at age 21, now valued at .8B.

  Founded Mach Industries

• Jed McCaleb1 founding

  Cryptocurrency entrepreneur and founder of Vast Space. Previously founded Ripple, Mt. Gox, and Stellar. Self-funded Vast from 2021 until the company's first out...

  Founded Vast Space

• Andy Marchese1 founding

  Founding head of hardware at Walden Robotics. Previously spent 10+ years at Amazon Robotics.

  Founded Walden Robotics

• Dave Johnson1 founding

  Chief Product Officer at Walden Robotics. Previously at Draper Labs and Dexai Robotics in Cambridge (acquired by Sony).

  Founded Walden Robotics

• Joe Romano1 founding

  Head of software at Walden Robotics. Previously worked at Berkshire Grey and Kiva Systems (acquired by Amazon in 2012).

  Founded Walden Robotics

• Russ Tedrake1 founding

  Russ Tedrake is co-founder and CEO of Walden Robotics and the Toyota Professor at MIT. He created the Drake robotics toolbox and was most recently SVP of Large ...

  Founded Walden Robotics

• Andrew Lonsberry1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Path Robotics, which he scaled from the basement of Case Western University into a physical AI company for manufacturing. He co-founded th...

  Founded Path Robotics

• Josh Lonsberry1 founding

  Co-founded Path Robotics in 2018 as CTO alongside his brother Andrew; leads robotics and AI engineering.

  Founded Path Robotics

• Han Fengtao1 founding

  Co-founder of ROKAE Robotics, which he started in December 2014 with Tuo Hua and Cao Hua, each holding a one-third stake. He sold all of his shares and exited a...

  Founded Rokae

• Tuo Hua1 founding

  Founder and CEO of ROKAE Robotics. Established the company in 2015 in Beijing, leading its growth from startup to HKEX-listed public company (3752.HK).

  Founded Rokae

• Luca Rossettini1 founding

  Founder and CEO of D-Orbit, a space logistics company pioneering orbital transfer vehicles with its ION Satellite Carrier. Italian aerospace engineer who served...

  Founded D-Orbit

• Amit Dror1 founding

  Israeli entrepreneur and co-founder of Nano Dimension, the additive electronics company.

  Founded Nano Dimension

• Dagi Ben-Noon1 founding

  Nano Dimension co-founder who later became CEO of Inspira.

  Founded Nano Dimension

• Simon Fried1 founding

  Co-founded Nano Dimension and helped grow it from a bootstrapped startup into a NASDAQ-listed tech unicorn.

  Founded Nano Dimension

• Takeshi Hakamada1 founding

  Founder and CEO of ispace, inc. (2010). Originated from the team that competed in the Google Lunar XPRIZE (Team HAKUTO). Led ispace through the record-largest J...

  Founded ispace

• Steve Xie1 founding

  Steve Xie is founder and CEO of Lightwheel, which builds simulation, synthetic data and evaluation infrastructure for physical AI. He studied physics at Peking ...

  Founded Lightwheel

• Samir Menon1 founding

  Founded Dexterity in 2017 and serves as CEO; completed PhD in computer science at Stanford, focusing on robotics and machine learning.

  Founded Dexterity

• Pan Yang1 founding

  Harbin Institute of Technology alumnus and co-founder. Led precision engineering efforts including the SwitchBot Bot with 0.1mm actuation accuracy.

  Founded One Robotics

• Richard Mou1 founding

  Richard Mou is a co-founder of SwitchBot. He joined after his own startup, Welle (a sonar-based gesture control gadget), and did market research for the SwitchB...

  Founded One Robotics

• Richard Jenkins1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Saildrone; inventor of the wing-sail and holder of the world land-speed sailing record.

  Founded Saildrone

• Gao Yang (高阳)1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Scientist of Spirit AI, a Beijing-based robotics company building a universal brain for robots using embodied AI models. Gao Yang is an Ass...

  Founded Spirit AI

• Han Fengtao (韩峰涛)1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Spirit AI (灵初智能), a Chinese embodied AI and humanoid robot company. Han Fengtao previously served as CTO and co-founder of Rokae Robotics ...

  Founded Spirit AI

• Yuan Jinhui1 founding

  Founded SiliconFlow

• Zheng Lingyin (郑灵茵)1 founding

  Co-founder and COO of Spirit AI (千寻智能).

  Founded Spirit AI

• Xu Wenda1 founding

  Xu Wenda is co-founder and CTO of Anyverse Dynamics (Unbounded Dynamics), which he started with Zhang Yufeng of Horizon Robotics. He holds a Ph.D. in robotics f...

  Founded Anyverse Dynamics

• Zhang Yufeng1 founding

  Zhang Yufeng founded Anyverse Dynamics in 2025, a company building a general brain and operational intelligence for robots. He was previously president of Horiz...

  Founded Anyverse Dynamics

• Julian Ma1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Inceptio Technology, leading Chinese autonomous trucking. Targeting mid-2028 for L4 commercialization with 78M in total funding.

  Founded Inceptio Technology

• Samuel Au1 founding

  Professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Founder & CEO of Cornerstone Robotics. Director of the Multiscale Medical Robotics Center (MRC) at InnoHK. ...

  Founded Cornerstone Robotics

• Jianxiong Xiao1 founding

  Founder and CEO of AutoX; led China's first fully-driverless robotaxi fleet (Shenzhen) before AutoX wound down its robotaxi business (~2024) and pivoted to priv...

  Founded AutoX

• Xiao Jianxiong1 founding

  Founder and CEO of AutoX (founded 2016), a Chinese autonomous vehicle company. Also known as Professor X. Formerly computer vision professor at Princeton Univer...

  Founded AutoX

• Paz Eshel1 founding

  Co-founder and former COO of Kodiak AI (no longer an officer/director; remains a >5% shareholder); previously a VP at Battery Ventures.

  Founded Kodiak AI

• David Golden1 founding

  Co-founder of Standard Bots.

  Founded Standard Bots

• Evan Beard1 founding

  Co-founder, CEO, and Chief Engineer of Standard Bots. Leading advocate for American robotics manufacturing and national robotics policy.

  Founded Standard Bots

• James Cordle1 founding

  Co-founder of Standard Bots.

  Founded Standard Bots

• Alex Le Roux1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of ICON. Created large-scale 3D printers for construction industry. Founded 2017.

  Founded ICON

• Evan Loomis1 founding

  Co-founder of ICON. Founded 2017 in Austin, TX.

  Founded ICON

• Matanya Horowitz1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of AMP Robotics (Denver, CO), a pioneer in AI-guided robotic systems for recycling and waste sorting. Founded 2015. PhD Caltech (control & dy...

  Founded AMP Robotics

• Etienne Lacroix1 founding

  Product-driven business leader and entrepreneur. Former GE product manager and McKinsey consultant. Founded Vention in 2016 to democratize industrial automation...

  Founded Vention

• Max Windisch1 founding

  Co-founded Vention in 2016 with Etienne Lacroix to build a cloud-based manufacturing automation platform.

  Founded Vention

• He Tao1 founding

  CEO and co-founder of CowaRobot. Holds degrees from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Tokyo Institute of Technology.

  Founded Cowarobot

• Igino Cafiero1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Bear Flag Robotics. Led development of autonomous driving technology for farm tractors, acquired by John Deere for 50M.

  Founded Bear Flag Robotics

• Jeff Holden1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Atomic Machines; built Amazon Prime and was Uber's first chief product officer.

  Founded Atomic Machines

• Jide Odunsi1 founding

  British-Nigerian entrepreneur, co-founder of [Moove](/companies/moove), the world's first mobility fintech. University of Oxford alumna. Previously an investmen...

  Founded Moove

• Ladi Delano1 founding

  British-Nigerian entrepreneur, co-founder and co-CEO of [Moove](/companies/moove), the world's first mobility fintech. Holds master's degrees from the Universit...

  Founded Moove

• Sam Altman1 founding

  Co-founder of Merge Labs, a brain-computer interface startup backed by OpenAI Ventures that aims to rival Neuralink by fusing human brains with AI systems. Also...

  Founded Merge Labs

• Ali Kashani1 founding

  Co-founder, CEO and Chairman of Serve Robotics; previously VP of Special Projects and head of 'X' at Postmates, where Serve originated. PhD in Robotics from UBC...

  Founded Serve Robotics

• Dmitry Demeshchuk1 founding

  Co-founder and VP of Software at Serve Robotics; a founding engineer of Postmates X.

  Founded Serve Robotics

• MJ Burk Chun1 founding

  Co-founder and VP of Product and Design at Serve Robotics; previously a director at Postmates and product leader at Anki and Electronic Arts.

  Founded Serve Robotics

• Ivo Boscarol1 founding

  Slovenian aviation pioneer and entrepreneur (born 1956) who founded Pipistrel in 1989 as the first private aircraft producer in the Balkans. A 7-time national h...

  Founded Pipistrel

• Ajay Agrawal1 founding

  Co-founder and board director of Sanctuary AI; founder of the Creative Destruction Lab and a professor at the University of Toronto Rotman School.

  Founded Sanctuary AI

• Olivia Norton1 founding

  Co-founder, CTO and CPO of Sanctuary AI; previously led the Vancouver AGI group at Kindred AI.

  Founded Sanctuary AI

• Suzanne Gildert1 founding

  Co-founder and former Chief Science Officer / CTO of Sanctuary AI; departed in 2024 to found Nirvanic. Previously at D-Wave Systems.

  Founded Sanctuary AI

• Avik De1 founding

  Co-founded Ghost Robotics in 2015 with Gavin Kenneally after completing his PhD at CMU's Robotics Institute; serves as CEO.

  Founded Ghost Robotics

• Gao Jiyang1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Galaxea Dynamics (Galaxea AI), a Beijing-based humanoid robotics startup valued at $700M. Age 33. Works at the company's Suzhou factory ov...

  Founded Galaxea Dynamics

• Gavin Kenneally1 founding

  Co-founded Ghost Robotics in 2015 with Avik De after their PhDs at Carnegie Mellon; served as President until departing around 2022.

  Founded Ghost Robotics

• Li Tianwei1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Galaxea Dynamics (also known as Galaxea AI), a Chinese embodied intelligence and humanoid robotics company. He oversee...

  Founded Galaxea Dynamics

• Xu Huazhe1 founding

  Co-founder and co-chief science officer of Galaxea Dynamics (Galaxea AI), a Beijing-based humanoid robotics startup valued at $700M. Age 32. Leads the AI model ...

  Founded Galaxea Dynamics

• Zhao Hang1 founding

  Co-founder and co-chief science officer of Galaxea Dynamics (Galaxea AI), a Beijing-based humanoid robotics startup valued at $700M. Age 34. Works on the propri...

  Founded Galaxea Dynamics

• Alberto Lacaze1 founding

  Co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Forterra (formerly Robotic Research), founded in 2002. Oversaw all technical aspects of commercial and defense robotic systems, ...

  Founded Forterra

• Karl Murphy1 founding

  Co-founder of Forterra (formerly Robotic Research), founded in 2002. Extensive research experience developing control software for autonomous vehicles, both on ...

  Founded Forterra

• James Ives1 founding

  Founder and CEO of XOCEAN (2017), an Irish marine robotics company operating uncrewed surface vessels for ocean data collection across offshore energy and civil...

  Founded XOcean

• Shiquan Wang1 founding

  Founder and CEO of [Flexiv](/companies/flexiv), the Shanghai-based adaptive robotics company (founded June 2016, Stanford University spin-out). Led Flexiv to un...

  Founded Flexiv

• John Freund1 founding

  Physician-investor who co-founded Intuitive Surgical in 1995 and negotiated the foundational SRI International surgical-technology license; later founded ventur...

  Founded Intuitive Surgical

• Robert Younge1 founding

  Electrical engineer who co-founded Intuitive Surgical in 1995 and led early technical development of the da Vinci system as its first CTO; previously co-founded...

  Founded Intuitive Surgical

• Imran Chaudhri1 founding

  Co-founder and former CEO of Humane. Discontinued AI Pin in 2025.

  Founded Humane

• John Langford1 founding

  American aerospace entrepreneur; founder and Chairman of Electra.aero (2020), developing sustainable hybrid-electric short takeoff and landing (eSTOL) aircraft....

  Founded Electra.aero

• Filip Lilja1 founding

  Co-founder of Einride.

  Founded Einride

• Linnea Kornehed1 founding

  Co-founder of Einride.

  Founded Einride

• Robert Falck1 founding

  Founder and Executive Chairman of Einride (Swedish electric/autonomous trucking); CEO from founding until May 2025. Previously Director of Manufacturing Enginee...

  Founded Einride

• Blake Resnick1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Brinc Drones (public-safety drones); a Thiel Fellow who previously worked at McLaren Automotive, Tesla and DJI. Attended Northwestern Univers...

  Founded BRINC

• Blake Resnick1 founding

  Founder of BRINC Drones.

  Founded BRINC

• Dominic Jud1 founding

  Robotic systems expert and CTO/Co-Founder of Gravis Robotics. Completed his MSc in Mechanical Engineering at ETH Zurich in 2014, then worked at the Autonomous S...

  Founded Gravis Robotics

• Marco Hutter1 founding

  Professor of Robotic Systems at ETH Zurich, director of the Robotic Systems Lab and the Center for Robotics, and the Zurich office lead of the National Center o...

  Founded Gravis Robotics

• Ryan Luke Johns1 founding

  Architect, roboticist, and CEO/Co-Founder of Gravis Robotics, a Swiss startup deploying autonomous heavy machinery for construction. Co-founded architectural re...

  Founded Gravis Robotics

• Simon Kalouche1 founding

  Simon Kalouche is CEO of Nimble Robotics, where he has built robotic fulfillment systems since 2017. He was previously an AI PhD student at Stanford and holds a...

  Founded Nimble Robotics

• Peter Meusel1 founding

  CTO of Agile Robots, leading robotics control and AI development.

  Founded Agile Robots

• Zhaopeng Chen1 founding

  CEO and co-founder of Agile Robots. Completed his doctorate at DLR developing a highly dexterous robotic hand. Leading the first unicorn in the robotics field.

  Founded Agile Robots

• Carlo Mondavi1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Farming Officer of Monarch Tractor; a fourth-generation winegrower (Mondavi family) and founder of RAEN Winery. Monarch collapsed in April ...

  Founded Monarch Tractor

• Mark Schwager1 founding

  Co-founder and former President of Monarch Tractor; previously led Tesla's Nevada Gigafactory build and Fremont operations planning, and worked at Zoox and Rome...

  Founded Monarch Tractor

• Praveen Penmetsa1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Monarch Tractor (autonomous electric tractors); previously co-founder/CEO of Motivo Engineering. Monarch collapsed in April 2026, with Cat...

  Founded Monarch Tractor

• Zachary Omohundro1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Monarch Tractor; previously at Motivo Engineering (autonomous-mining robotics). Monarch collapsed in April 2026.

  Founded Monarch Tractor

• Oh Jun-ho1 founding

  Professor at KAIST HUBO Lab and co-founder of Rainbow Robotics. Developed the HUBO humanoid robot platform.

  Founded Rainbow Robotics

• Dr. Tao Ye1 founding

  CEO and founder of Bambu Lab, leading the company to over CNY 10 billion in revenue and becoming one of the world's largest 3D printer manufacturers.

  Founded Bambu Lab

• Carl Pei1 founding

  Swedish-Chinese entrepreneur (b. 1989, Beijing). Co-founder and CEO of Nothing, the consumer electronics company known for transparent-design smartphones and au...

  Founded Nothing Technology

• Cheng Chi1 founding

  Co-founder of Sunday Robotics. Stanford PhD. Building the ACT-1 foundation model for autonomous home robotics.

  Founded Sunday

• Florian Solzbacher1 founding

  Co-Founder and Chairman of [Blackrock Neurotech](/companies/blackrock-neurotech), a brain-computer interface company he co-founded in 2008 with CEO Marcus Gerha...

  Founded Blackrock Neurotech

• Huang Zehua1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Zeron, a Chinese electric heavy-duty truck startup. Former co-founder of TuSimple. Raised 00M B2 round, turned operating cash flow positive Q...

  Founded Zeron

• Liu Wenjie1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of LimX Dynamics (founded 2021), Shenzhen-based humanoid and legged robot company making the CL-1 biped and W1 quadruped. Previously a roboti...

  Founded LimX Dynamics

• Luke Allen1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Allen Control Systems, developing AI-driven robotic manufacturing.

  Founded Allen Control Systems

• Mouad MGhari1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of [Harmattan AI](/companies/harmattan-ai), the Paris-based defense AI company (founded April 2024). Admitted to both École Polytechnique and...

  Founded Harmattan AI

• Steve Simoni1 founding

  Steve Simoni is Co-Founder and President of Allen Control Systems. A Navy veteran who previously co-founded Bbot with Mike Wior.

  Founded Allen Control Systems

• Steven Simoni1 founding

  Co-founder and President of Allen Control Systems, an Austin-based defense technology startup building the Bullfrog, an AI-powered autonomous machine gun turret...

  Founded Allen Control Systems

• Tom Oxley1 founding

  Dr. Thomas Oxley is an Australian-born physician, neuroscientist, and technology entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of Synchron, a brain-computer interface...

  Founded Synchron

• Tony Zhao1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Sunday Robotics. Stanford PhD. Building Memo, an autonomous home robot that learns through ACT-1 foundation model. Raised 00M total at .15...

  Founded Sunday

• Yu Qian (James Yu)1 founding

  Co-founder, Chairman and CEO of [QCraft](/companies/qcraft), a Beijing-based autonomous driving company building L4 autonomous vehicle technology. A world-renow...

  Founded QCraft

• Da Fang1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Scientist of QCraft. Leads the company's research on world models, reinforcement learning, and physical AI.

  Founded QCraft

• David Jiang1 founding

  Founder and CEO of VITURE. Previously spent time at Harvard and Google, where he was one of the first people to work on Google Glass.

  Founded VITURE

• Hou Cong1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of QCraft. Leads QCraft's autonomous driving compute platform work, including the NVIDIA DRIVE Orin-based robotaxi deployment.

  Founded QCraft

• Jun Pei1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Cepton (2016-2023); physicist and entrepreneur; led Cepton from founding to acquisition by Continental AG (closed June 2023). Cepton devel...

  Founded Cepton

• Mark McCord1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Cepton (2016-2023); optical engineer and research scientist; co-developed Cepton's patented MMT LiDAR architecture with Jun Pei. Post-acqu...

  Founded Cepton

• Tony Z. Zhao1 founding

  Tony Zhao is co-founder and CEO of Sunday, a home robotics company he founded with Cheng Chi. Both are robotics researchers known for work on ALOHA, transformer...

  Founded Sunday

• Wang Kun1 founding

  Co-founder and COO of QCraft.

  Founded QCraft

• Joe Turner1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of [Havoc](/companies/havoc), a Providence-based defense technology company building all-domain collaborative autonomy so...

  Founded HavocAI

• Shawn Driver1 founding

  Co-founder of HavocAI, serving in senior leadership roles across multi-domain programs.

  Founded HavocAI

• Andrew Liang1 founding

  Co-founder and lead robotics engineer at Built Robotics; previously at NASA JPL and Airware. Engineering background from Caltech.

  Founded Built Robotics

• Noah Ready-Campbell1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Built Robotics (autonomous construction equipment); previously a product manager at Google and co-founder of Twice (acquired by eBay in 2015)...

  Founded Built Robotics

• Daniel Glozman1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of ForSight Robotics. Has specialized in robotics for medical applications for over 20 years, previously heading R&D at Medtronic Ventor Tech...

  Founded ForSight Robotics

• Joseph Nathan1 founding

  Co-founder, President, and Chief Medical Officer of ForSight Robotics. A surgeon (MD, MSc) who previously directed healthcare commercialization at the Technion ...

  Founded ForSight Robotics

• Veronica Pascual Boé1 founding

  CEO and majority owner of ASTI Mobile Robotics. Acquired the business from her parents in 2008 and grew it to ~$50M revenue before selling to ABB for $190M in 2...

  Founded ASTI Mobile Robotics Group

• Yingcai Bi1 founding

  Founder of Gausium (formerly known as Gaussian Robotics). AI-powered autonomous cleaning solutions. 6500+ customers in 70+ countries.

  Founded Gausium

• Alex Liao1 founding

  Co-founded Machina Labs in 2019 and serves as CTO; previously research engineer at NASA JPL and SpaceX.

  Founded Machina Labs

• Edward Mehr1 founding

  Co-founded Machina Labs in 2019 and serves as CEO; material scientist with a background from Tesla's manufacturing team.

  Founded Machina Labs

• Chris Van Pelt1 founding

  Co-founder & Distinguished Engineer at Weights & Biases. Also co-founded Figure Eight with Lukas Biewald.

  Founded Weights & Biases

• Lukas Biewald1 founding

  Co-founder & CEO of Weights & Biases (now GM under CoreWeave). Previously founded Figure Eight (crowdsourcing/ML training data, acquired by Appen). Angel invest...

  Founded Weights & Biases

• Shawn Lewis1 founding

  Co-founder of Weights & Biases.

  Founded Weights & Biases

• Amar Hanspal1 founding

  CEO and co-founder of Bright Machines, with over 30 years of experience. He was previously co-CEO and chief product officer at Autodesk, and sits on the boards ...

  Founded Bright Machines

• Paul Mikesell1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Carbon Robotics (the AI LaserWeeder); previously Director of Infrastructure Engineering at Uber and co-founder of Isilon Systems and Clustrix...

  Founded Carbon Robotics

• Mal Crease1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Kraken Technology Group. Spent 20 years chasing offshore powerboat records before turning to defense in 2020, founding Kraken to build autono...

  Founded Kraken Technology Group

• Edwin Olson1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of May Mobility; previously at the Toyota Research Institute and a professor at the University of Michigan (APRIL robotics lab). PhD from MIT...

  Founded May Mobility

• Steve Vozar1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of May Mobility; previously at the University of Michigan.

  Founded May Mobility

• Alisyn Malek1 founding

  Co-founder and former COO of May Mobility (departed); previously at General Motors.

  Founded May Mobility

• Britaldo Hernandez1 founding

  Cuban-born automation engineer who co-founded Solinftec in 2007 in Aracatuba, Brazil, and leads the agricultural-AI/robotics company as CEO.

  Founded Solinftec

• Jin Tomioka1 founding

  CEO of Telexistence, a Japanese robotics company developing teleoperated humanoid robots for retail and warehouse applications.

  Founded Telexistence

• Kelvin Sun1 founding

  Sun Kuan is the founder and CEO of Hypershell, an exoskeleton robot company he started in 2021. Before founding it, he specialized in exoskeleton simulation dur...

  Founded Hypershell

• Philip Johnston1 founding

  British entrepreneur and co-founder/CEO of [Starcloud](/companies/starcloud), developing orbital data centers for AI compute. Previously co-founded Opontia (acq...

  Founded Starcloud

• Brian Manning1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Xona Space Systems.

  Founded Xona Space Systems

• Mark Seeger1 founding

  Co-CEO and Founder of Glydways, the South San Francisco-based personal rapid transit company he founded in 2016 to deliver on-demand autonomous transit on dedic...

  Founded Glydways

• Zach Zeliff1 founding

  Co-Founder and Chief Product Solutions officer at Glydways, the South San Francisco-based personal rapid transit company developing on-demand autonomous transit...

  Founded Glydways

• Rob Sullivan1 founding

  Co-founder of Symbotic and Alert Robotics, then part-owner of Heartland Automation. Led AutoGuide Mobile Robots' spinoff from Heartland Automation in 2017 and s...

  Founded AutoGuide Mobile Robots

• Shan Jizhang1 founding

  CEO of Black Sesame Technologies, a Chinese AI chip company providing perception solutions for autonomous driving.

  Founded Black Sesame Technologies

• Pulkit Agrawal1 founding

  Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT (CSAIL) and co-founder of Eka Robotics. PhD from UC Berkeley, undergraduate from IIT K...

  Founded Eka Robotics

• Tuomas Haarnoja1 founding

  Co-founder of Eka Robotics. Former Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, where he worked on reinforcement learning. PhD from UC Berkeley (2018) on maximum entr...

  Founded Eka Robotics

• Brad Squicciarini1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Coco Robotics. BS in Computer Science from UCLA.

  Founded Coco Robotics

• Hélène Huby1 founding

  Founder and CEO of [The Exploration Company](/companies/exploration-company), a European aerospace startup building Nyx, a reusable modular space capsule for ca...

  Founded The Exploration Company

• Zach Rash1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Coco Robotics; started the company out of UCLA.

  Founded Coco Robotics

• Aurelien Demaurex1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Ecorobotix (founded 2014), the Swiss ultra-high-precision sprayer company behind the ARA; HEC Lausanne management background, previously c...

  Founded Ecorobotix

• Steve Tanner1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Ecorobotix; grew up on a farm weeding sugar beets by hand and holds a PhD from EPFL.

  Founded Ecorobotix

• Chad McCoy1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Firestorm Labs.

  Founded Firestorm Labs

• Dan Magy1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Firestorm Labs. Multi-time defense founder who previously founded Citadel Defense (acquired by Blue Halo) and co-founded Elevate Dynamics.

  Founded Firestorm Labs

• Ian Muceus1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Firestorm Labs, leading additive manufacturing technology development.

  Founded Firestorm Labs

• Felix Zhang1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Shenzhen-based Pudu Robotics (Zhang Tao; founded 2016), a leading commercial service-robot maker deployed in 80+ countries; previously founde...

  Founded Pudu Robotics

• Isabella Bai (Bai Huiyuan / 白惠源)1 founding

  Founder and CEO of INFIFORCE, which develops a Causal World Model and Hyper-VLA foundation model to serve as a shared brain for its FORCE and AstroDroid robots....

  Founded Infiforce

• Li Tong1 founding

  Founder and CEO of KEENON Robotics (KEENON Technology); also known as Tony Li. Founded the company in Shanghai in 2010 after working in robotics at Microsoft. B...

  Founded KEENON Robotics

• Tony Li1 founding

  Founder and CEO of KEENON Robotics, a leading Chinese service-robotics company based in Shenzhen that develops delivery, cleaning, and medical robots deployed g...

  Founded KEENON Robotics

• Will Wang1 founding

  Founder of Even Realities, a technology company developing AI-powered wearable devices and smart glasses.

  Founded Even Realities

• David Cranor1 founding

  Co-founder of Formlabs, the 3D-printing company he started in 2011 with Maxim Lobovsky and Natan Linder while all three were students in MIT Media Lab's "How to...

  Founded Formlabs

• John Markus Lervik1 founding

  Founder of Cognite AS.

  Founded Cognite

• Maxim Lobovsky1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Formlabs, the Somerville, MA-based 3D-printing company he founded in 2011 with David Cranor and Natan Linder out of an MIT Media Lab basem...

  Founded Formlabs

• Natan Linder1 founding

  Co-founder and Chairman of Formlabs, and co-founder and CEO of Tulip, a manufacturing technology (frontline operations platform) company spun out of the MIT Med...

  Founded Formlabs

• Cao Ying1 founding

  Co-founder of SEAHI Robotics. Served as professional judge at the First Harbin Engineering University Science Popularization Competition.

  Founded SEAHI Robotics

• Chen Xiaobo1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Shihang Intelligence (SEAHI Robotics), an ocean robotics company. Born in 1989, he is an alumnus of Harbin Engineering University and won a F...

  Founded SEAHI Robotics

• Jia Kui1 founding

  Founder and Chief Scientist of [DexForce Technology](/companies/dexforce), a Chinese robotics firm developing AI perception software that helps robots identify ...

  Founded DexForce Technology

• Guo Renjie1 founding

  Former China president of Dreame who founded Zeroth (Suzhou JoyIn Intelligent Technology) in 2024 to build interactive companion robots. Forbes 30 Under 30 hono...

  Founded Zeroth

• Tan Limin1 founding

  Founder and chairman of Westwell (founded 2016, Shanghai), the AI logistics company behind the WellOcean smart-port platform and Qomolo autonomous new-energy lo...

  Founded Westwell

• Christophe Sapet1 founding

  Founder of Navya (2014), the first company to commercialize autonomous shuttles (2015); a serial entrepreneur (Infonie, Infogrames). Ousted as CEO in 2018.

  Founded Navya

• Jason Ma1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Dyna Robotics; previously a research scientist at Google DeepMind, NVIDIA AI and Meta AI; lead author of the Eureka paper. PhD from the UP...

  Founded Dyna Robotics

• York Yang1 founding

  Co-founder of Dyna Robotics; previously at Caper AI.

  Founded Dyna Robotics

• Patrick Qian1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Quectel Wireless Solutions, one of the first engineers in China to dedicate his career to wireless module development. Previously Vice Genera...

  Founded Quectel

• Jiang Zheyuan1 founding

  Tsinghua University electronics engineering dropout who founded Noetix Robotics in 2023 at age 25, leading the company to over 1,000 robot orders in two years.

  Founded Noetix Robotics

• Zhang Shipu1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Noetix Robotics, partnering with Jiang Zheyuan to build the company from a rented apartment with ~100K RMB in initial capital.

  Founded Noetix Robotics

• AyJay Lasater1 founding

  CTO and Co-founder of [Albedo Space](/companies/albedo), an American aerospace company developing Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO) satellites for defense and earth o...

  Founded Albedo Space

• Igal Raichelgauz1 founding

  CEO and co-founder of Autobrains Technologies, an AI company developing perception systems for autonomous driving.

  Founded Autobrains Technologies

• Siler Wang1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Beatbot, building AI-powered pool cleaning robots. Led the company to 85% market share in premium pool cleaning and hundreds of millions in r...

  Founded Beatbot

• Yu Chao1 founding

  Tsinghua University graduate and former head of Dreame Technology's humanoid robot business. Founded LUMOS Robotics in 2024.

  Founded Lumos Robotics

• Richard Wang1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Aiper (founded 2016, Shenzhen/Atlanta), maker of cordless robotic pool cleaners.

  Founded Aiper

• Akash Gupta1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of GreyOrange (CEO since April 2023); previously CTO and Chief Product Officer.

  Founded GreyOrange

• Samay Kohli1 founding

  Co-founder of GreyOrange; transitioned to the board of directors in April 2023.

  Founded GreyOrange

• Dvir Cohen1 founding

  CEO and Co-Founder of Momentis Surgical since October 2013. Leads development of the ANOVO Robotic Surgical System for gynecological and general surgery procedu...

  Founded Momentis Surgical

• Buck Jordan1 founding

  Co-founder of Miso Robotics; served as founding CEO then transitioned to Chairman & President (2020) to focus on fundraising. Led Miso from launch to public lis...

  Founded Miso Robotics

• David Zito1 founding

  Co-founder and founding CEO of Miso Robotics, the kitchen-robotics company (Flippy) founded in 2016 by Caltech engineers.

  Founded Miso Robotics

• James Jordan1 founding

  Co-founder of Miso Robotics, the commercial-kitchen-robotics company.

  Founded Miso Robotics

• Robert Anderson1 founding

  Co-founder of Miso Robotics, the commercial-kitchen-robotics company.

  Founded Miso Robotics

• Ryan Sinnet1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Miso Robotics; a Caltech engineer who co-founded the company in 2016.

  Founded Miso Robotics

• Bir Singh1 founding

  Co-founder and CBO of Addverb (founded 2016), the warehouse and material-handling robotics company.

  Founded Addverb

• Byron Boots1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Overland AI, a defense autonomy startup developing off-road autonomous vehicles. Leading ULTRA UGV production and Pentagon contracts.

  Founded Overland AI

• Delian Asparouhov1 founding

  Co-founder of Varda Space Industries (2021) and partner at Founders Fund. Previously at Khosla Ventures. Estonian-American. Conceived the orbital pharmaceutical...

  Founded Varda Space Industries

• Marco Hutter1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of ANYbotics; Associate Professor at ETH Zurich RSL; pioneer in legged robot locomotion and the ANYmal quadruped platform. Branco Weiss Fello...

  Founded ANYbotics

• Prateek Jain1 founding

  Co-founder and COO of Addverb (founded 2016), the Indian robotics and warehouse-automation company.

  Founded Addverb

• Sangeet Kumar1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Addverb (founded 2016), the Indian warehouse-automation company making AMRs, ASRS, and material-handling robots; backed by Reliance.

  Founded Addverb

• Will Bruey1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Varda Space Industries (2021). Former electrical engineer at SpaceX. Leads Varda's mission to manufacture pharmaceuticals and advanced mat...

  Founded Varda Space Industries

• Markus Hutter1 founding

  Co-founder of ANYbotics (2016) and Professor at ETH Zurich's Robotic Systems Lab. Co-inventor of the ANYmal quadruped platform. Scientific advisor to ANYbotics ...

  Founded ANYbotics

• Bridgit Mendler1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Northwood Space, building a phased-array ground station network for satellite communications. Former Disney Channel actress and singer tur...

  Founded Northwood Space

• Chris Baker1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Terabase Energy, building the Terafab automated solar panel construction platform. Founded in 2019 in Berkeley, California.

  Founded Terabase Energy

• Kevin Sartori1 founding

  Co-founder of Auterion, established the company in 2017 alongside Lorenz Meier.

  Founded Auterion

• Lorenz Meier1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Auterion, creator of Pixhawk open-source autopilot platform. Leading Auterion's mission to provide AI-powered autonomous systems software for...

  Founded Auterion

• Matt Campbell1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Terabase Energy, building digital and automation (Terafab) tools for utility-scale solar; a solar-industry veteran who joined SunPower in ...

  Founded Terabase Energy

• Sean Hsu1 founding

  CEO and founder of Botrista, former Tesla engineer. Leading the company's automated beverage platform with 36M+ in funding.

  Founded Botrista

• Hans Moravec1 founding

  Co-founder Seegrid; Carnegie Mellon robotics pioneer; developed stereo vision-based navigation for industrial vehicles.

  Founded Seegrid

• Chinn Lim1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of dConstruct Technologies. 30+ years of experience in software and product implementation, previously leading GovTech Singapore's Smart Nati...

  Founded dConstruct Technologies

• Eugene Izhikevich1 founding

  CEO and co-founder of Brain Corp, developing the BrainOS autonomous navigation platform deployed at 2,000+ Walmart and Sam's Club locations.

  Founded Brain Corp

• Georgios Papoutsis1 founding

  Founded DeepInfra

• Nikola Borisov1 founding

  Founded DeepInfra

• Robert Dane1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Ocius Technology, a lifelong mariner who designed the Bluebottle USV to harness solar, wind, and wave power for endless endurance maritime mi...

  Founded Ocius Technology

• Yessenzhar Kanapin1 founding

  Founded DeepInfra

• Bernt Bornich1 founding

  Founder and CEO of 1X Technologies (formerly Halodi Robotics, founded 2014), a Norwegian humanoid robot company backed by OpenAI.

  Founded 1X Technologies

• Bernt Øivind Børnich1 founding

  Norwegian roboticist who founded 1X Technologies (originally Halodi Robotics) in 2014 to build general-purpose humanoid robots for home environments.

  Founded 1X Technologies

• Chiu Chau1 founding

  Co-founder of Opentrons; helped found and back the lab-automation robotics company.

  Founded Opentrons

• Duy Nguyen1 founding

  Co-founder of Mecka AI (listed as COO by the Canadian AI Index). Described by CEO Josh Gao to Fortune as an "OG sneakerhead" who made millions reselling shoes b...

  Founded Mecka

• Josh Gao1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Mecka AI, the physical AI data and deployment company. In 2023 he and Mecka co-founder Mogen Cheng sold their prior restaurant payments st...

  Founded Mecka

• Matthieu Masselin1 founding

  CEO and co-founder of Wandercraft (2012-present); has led the company through its Atalante rehabilitation exoskeleton, personal exoskeleton Eve, and humanoid ro...

  Founded Wandercraft

• Mogen Cheng1 founding

  Co-founder of Mecka AI (listed as CPO by the Canadian AI Index). Previously co-founded Mentum Group Inc., restaurant and ghost-kitchen ordering software, which ...

  Founded Mecka

• Nicolas Simon1 founding

  Co-founder and Chairman of the Board at Wandercraft (2012-present); graduated in robotics from Ecole Polytechnique. Personal motivation: family members use whee...

  Founded Wandercraft

• Pardeep Singh1 founding

  Founded RunPod

• Tianhao Zhang1 founding

  Co-founder of Covariant who remained to lead the company after Amazon hired its other founders in 2024.

  Founded Covariant

• Will Canine1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Opentrons; started the open-source lab-automation/liquid-handling robotics company out of a community hackerspace with co-founders he met ...

  Founded Opentrons

• Zhen Lu1 founding

  Founded RunPod

• Alexandre Boulanger1 founding

  Co-founder of Wandercraft and its Managing Director from 2012 to 2019, part of the Ecole Polytechnique team that built the self-balancing gait control behind th...

  Founded Wandercraft

• Chris Walti1 founding

  Former lead of the Tesla team that became Optimus (departed 2022); co-founded and is CEO of warehouse-automation company Mytra.

  Founded Mytra

• Jean-Louis Constanza1 founding

  Co-founder of Wandercraft. A telecoms executive before Wandercraft, he is credited as part of the founding group; his son Oscar lives with Charcot-Marie-Tooth d...

  Founded Wandercraft

• Nicholas Wagner1 founding

  Co-founder of Opentrons, the open-source laboratory liquid-handling robotics company.

  Founded Opentrons

• Peter Chen1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Covariant; joined Amazon in August 2024 as part of Amazon's license-and-hire deal.

  Founded Covariant

• Pieter Abbeel1 founding

  Co-founder of Covariant and professor at UC Berkeley; joined Amazon in August 2024 when Amazon licensed Covariant's models and hired several of its founders. Ph...

  Founded Covariant

• Rocky Duan1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Covariant; joined Amazon in August 2024.

  Founded Covariant

• Andrew Smith1 founding

  Founder and CEO Outrider (2017-); former Uber ATG autonomy engineer; built autonomous yard operations for distribution centers.

  Founded Outrider

• Song Ki-young1 founding

  Song Ki-young is CEO and founder of Holiday Robotics, a physical AI company developing humanoid robots for manufacturing. He previously founded Sualab, an indus...

  Founded Holiday Robotics

• Noah McGuinness1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of TerraFirma. Former SpaceX engineer who worked on the Starshield government satellite program. Princeton engineering graduate.

  Founded TerraFirma

• Noah Schochet1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of TerraFirma. Former SpaceX engineer who worked on Starlink and Starship programs. Princeton engineering graduate.

  Founded TerraFirma

• Austin Gray1 founding

  Co-founder of Blue Water Autonomy (2024). Former Amazon Robotics engineer. Contributes autonomy and robotics systems expertise to Blue Water's unmanned vessel p...

  Founded Blue Water Autonomy

• Scott N. Miller1 founding

  Co-founder of Blue Water Autonomy (2024). Former U.S. Navy officer. Brings maritime operations and naval systems expertise to Blue Water's autonomous ship devel...

  Founded Blue Water Autonomy

• John Ha1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Bear Robotics, the Redwood City, California developer of robots that deliver food to restaurant customers. A former Intel research scientist ...

  Founded Bear Robotics

• Juan Higueros1 founding

  Co-founder and COO Bear Robotics; former Tesla and Google operations leader; oversees deployment and customer success.

  Founded Bear Robotics

• Mohit Kumar1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Ultrahuman, the Indian metabolic-health and smart-ring company.

  Founded Ultrahuman

• Vatsal Singhal1 founding

  Co-founder of Ultrahuman; previously co-founded logistics company Runnr / Roadrunnr.

  Founded Ultrahuman

• Yan Weixin1 founding

  Co-founder of AgiBot; an associate professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University's School of Mechanical Engineering and chief scientist at the Shanghai AI Laborato...

  Founded AgiBot

• Ansgar Kadura1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Wingcopter.

  Founded Wingcopter

• Jonathan Hesselbarth1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Wingcopter.

  Founded Wingcopter

• Tom Plummer1 founding

  Co-founder and Co-CEO of Wingcopter, the German fixed-wing eVTOL delivery-drone company founded in 2017.

  Founded Wingcopter

• Dylan Fox1 founding

  Founder and CEO of AssemblyAI (founded 2017). Former machine learning engineer at Cisco. Founded AssemblyAI after seeing limitations of existing speech recognit...

  Founded AssemblyAI

• Carla Gómez Cano1 founding

  Co-founder & CEO of THEKER Robotics. Robotics and AI engineer who co-founded THEKER in 2022 with Jiaqiang Ye Zhu after competing together in robotics at UPC Bar...

  Founded THEKER Robotics

• Jiaqiang Ye Zhu1 founding

  Co-founder of THEKER Robotics. Robotics and AI engineer who co-founded THEKER in 2022 with Carla Gómez Cano after competing together in robotics at UPC Barcelon...

  Founded THEKER Robotics

• Théophile Gervet1 founding

  Théophile Gervet is co-founder and president of Genesis AI, a French-American startup that unveiled Eno, its first humanoid robot. The company takes a full-stac...

  Founded Genesis AI

• Zhou Xian1 founding

  PhD in robotics from Carnegie Mellon University. Co-founder and CEO of Genesis AI, building universal robotics foundation models.

  Founded Genesis AI

• Chi Xu1 founding

  Founder and CEO of XREAL (formerly Nreal), a Beijing-based consumer AR glasses company. Former NVIDIA software engineer who founded XREAL in 2017 and led develo...

  Founded XREAL

• Eliot Pence1 founding

  CEO of Dominion Dynamics, a technology company providing industrial automation solutions.

  Founded Dominion Dynamics

• Jihan Wu1 founding

  Renowned blockchain entrepreneur who co-founded Bitmain in 2013 and established Bitdeer as a spin-off in 2021. First to translate Satoshi Nakamoto's Bitcoin Whi...

  Founded Bitdeer Technologies

• Ofir Schlam1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Taranis, the Israeli precision agriculture intelligence platform using aerial imagery and AI.

  Founded Taranis

• Roman Hölzl1 founding

  CEO and co-founder of RobCo, a Munich-based modular robotics company spun out of TU Munich in 2020.

  Founded RobCo

• Wang Helong1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Galaxea AI (founded 2023), Beijing-based humanoid robot startup making the A1 general-purpose humanoid. Previously a robotics researcher and ...

  Founded Galaxea AI

• Zhang Junbin1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Narwal Robotics, founded in 2016. Leading the Shenzhen-based robot vacuum company's cleaning revolution.

  Founded Narwal

• Zhou Guyue1 founding

  Zhou Guyue is Founder at DISCOVER Robotics; co-founder of DISCOVER Robotics.

  Founded DISCOVER Robotics

• Jay Xiao1 founding

  CEO of Tensor, the Silicon Valley company founded in 2016 that is developing the Robocar, a Level 4 autonomous vehicle designed for private ownership and fleet ...

  Founded Tensor Auto

• Jihan Wu1 founding

  Co-founder of Bitmain and Bitdeer.

  Founded Bitdeer Technologies

• Jihan Wu1 founding

  Co-founder of Bitmain and Bitdeer.

  Founded Bitdeer Technologies

• Hu Huazhi1 founding

  Founder and CEO EHang (2014-); automation and robotics entrepreneur; built autonomous aerial vehicle company focused on passenger and logistics drones.

  Founded EHang

• Anne Osdoit1 founding

  Founding CEO of Moon Surgical; previously a partner at Sofinnova (MD Start) and founding CEO of SafeHeal and May Health.

  Founded Moon Surgical

• Brice Gayet1 founding

  Founder of Moon Surgical; a French liver and pancreas surgeon and laparoscopic pioneer (MD, PhD).

  Founded Moon Surgical

• Brandon Alexander1 founding

  Co-founder and former CEO of Iron Ox (autonomous greenhouse farming; wound down in 2023, rebranded Inevitable Tech); now an Entrepreneur in Residence at Crossli...

  Founded Iron Ox

• Jon Binney1 founding

  Co-founder and former CTO of Iron Ox; previously a research engineer at Willow Garage (the lab that produced the PR2 robot and ROS). PhD in robotics from USC.

  Founded Iron Ox

• Albert Liu1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Kneron, which he established in San Diego in 2015. He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from UCLA and previously held R&D and management ...

  Founded Kneron

• Alex Tilson1 founding

  Founder & CEO of Neptune Medical, a Silicon Valley medical device company focused on GI robotics. Previously founded Loma Vista Medical and worked at Intuitive ...

  Founded Neptune Medical

• Frank Chang1 founding

  Co-founder of Kneron. Wintek Chair and Distinguished Professor at UCLA Electrical Engineering Department. Former President of National Chiao Tung University (20...

  Founded Kneron

• Youjun Xiong1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center.

  Founded X-Humanoid

• Fady Khater1 founding

  Co-founded Avidbots in 2014 and serves as CEO; leads the company's autonomous floor-cleaning robot platform.

  Founded Avidbots

• Pablo Molina1 founding

  Co-founded Avidbots in 2014 and serves as CTO; leads robotics and AI engineering.

  Founded Avidbots

• Patryk Wiatr1 founding

  Co-founder and CIO of [Turion Space](/companies/turion-space). Oversees information systems and software infrastructure for the DROID satellite program. Previou...

  Founded Turion Space

• Ryan Westerdahl1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of [Turion Space](/companies/turion-space). Former [SpaceX](/companies/spacex) propulsion engineer with 8.5 years working on Merlin, SuperDra...

  Founded Turion Space

• Tyler Pierce1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of [Turion Space](/companies/turion-space). Former consultant at ATA Engineering and engineer at Electroimpact designing aerospace assembly a...

  Founded Turion Space

• Wang Jianchen1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Edge Medical Robotics. Leading industrialization of high-end surgical robotics in China.

  Founded Edge Medical Robotics

• Alex Gu1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Fourier Intelligence (Gu Jie); founded the Shanghai company in 2015, leading it from rehabilitation and exoskeleton robotics into humanoids (...

  Founded Fourier Intelligence

• Alex Ren1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Fourier Intelligence (Shanghai, founded 2015). Started with exoskeleton rehabilitation devices (ExoMotus line), expanded into general-purp...

  Founded Fourier Intelligence

• Zen Koh1 founding

  Co-founder and Deputy Group CEO / Global CEO of Fourier Intelligence; previously ran Hocoma's Asia-Pacific operations before helping build out Fourier's interna...

  Founded Fourier Intelligence

• Sander Smeets1 founding

  Founder and CEO of DeltaQuad (originally Vertical Technologies), established in 2012. Led the pivot from commercial mapping to a pure defence player, with Delta...

  Founded DeltaQuad

• Tang Mu1 founding

  Former Xiaomi VP of Ecosystem Chain and ex-Tencent CDC General Manager with 25 years of product-making experience. Founded Yingzhi XBOT in 2022 to build caterin...

  Founded Yingzhi XBOT

• Cheng Yi1 founding

  Co-founder of Zerith Robotics. Former member of Tsinghua University AI and Robot Lab core team who launched the humanoid robotics startup in January 2025.

  Founded Zerith Robotics

• Min Yuheng1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Zerith Robotics. Former member of Tsinghua University AI and Robot Lab core team who launched the humanoid robotics startup in January 202...

  Founded Zerith Robotics

• Liu Peichao1 founding

  Chairman and CEO of Dobot, a Shenzhen-based robotic arm company. Revenue CN¥286.75M in 2023. Expanding into humanoid robots with Atom.

  Founded Dobot

• Eliot Horowitz1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Viam (founded 2020, New York). Previously co-founded MongoDB (Nasdaq: MDB) in 2007 with Dwight Merriman and Kevin Ryan (all former DoubleClic...

  Founded Viam

• Fernand Badano1 founding

  Co-founder and Managing Director of Quantum Surgical, previously worked at Medtech SA.

  Founded Quantum Surgical

• Lucien Blondel1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Quantum Surgical, previously worked with Bertin Nahum at Medtech SA.

  Founded Quantum Surgical

• Dr. Sai Zhang1 founding

  Founder of Robotphoenix Intelligent Technology, a Chinese industrial robot company he established in 2012. The company was set to list in Hong Kong in May 2026 ...

  Founded Robotphoenix

• Stephen Klein1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Hyphen Technologies, developing AI-powered automated makeline systems for restaurant kitchens.

  Founded Hyphen

• Apeksha Kumavat1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Engineer of Gatik; previously computer-vision lead for autonomous vehicles at Ford and ML lead at Otsaw. MS from Purdue.

  Founded Gatik

• Arjun Narang1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Gatik. MS in computer engineering from Purdue.

  Founded Gatik

• Gautam Narang1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Gatik (autonomous middle-mile trucking, founded 2017); previously at CMU's National Robotics Engineering Center and Honda R&D. MS in Robot...

  Founded Gatik

• Kacper Janowski1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of [Nomagic](/companies/nomagic), the Warsaw-based AI robotics company building pick-and-place robots for e-commerce fulfillment. Previously ...

  Founded Nomagic

• Mikhail Kokorich1 founding

  Russian physicist and serial aerospace entrepreneur (born 11 October 1976 in Siberia). Founded Momentus in 2017 to develop water plasma propulsion for in-space ...

  Founded Momentus Space

• Christian Piechnick1 founding

  CEO and co-founder of Wandelbots.

  Founded Wandelbots

• Christoph Biering1 founding

  Co-founder of Wandelbots.

  Founded Wandelbots

• Georg Püschel1 founding

  Co-founder of Wandelbots.

  Founded Wandelbots

• Maria Piechnick1 founding

  Co-founder of Wandelbots, a no-code physical-AI platform for programming industrial robots based in Dresden.

  Founded Wandelbots

• Eric Litman1 founding

  Four-time entrepreneur and founder/CEO of Aescape. Bringing together expertise from Amazon, Apple, Fitbit for AI-powered robotic massage.

  Founded Aescape

• Alessio Del Bue1 founding

  Alessio Del Bue is a Co-founder of Generative Bionics, previously a researcher at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT).

  Founded Generative Bionics

• Andrea Pagnin1 founding

  Andrea Pagnin is a Co-founder of Generative Bionics, previously a researcher at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT).

  Founded Generative Bionics

• Daniele Pucci1 founding

  Daniele Pucci is the CEO and Co-founder of Generative Bionics. He was previously a researcher at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), where he led the hum...

  Founded Generative Bionics

• Davide Rota1 founding

  Davide Rota is a Co-founder of Generative Bionics, previously a researcher at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT).

  Founded Generative Bionics

• Jeffrey Libshutz1 founding

  Jeffrey Libshutz is a Co-founder of Generative Bionics, previously a researcher at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT).

  Founded Generative Bionics

• Marco Maggiali1 founding

  Marco Maggiali is a Co-founder of Generative Bionics, previously a researcher at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT).

  Founded Generative Bionics

• Adrian Negoita1 founding

  CTO of Dexory, leading the technical development of autonomous warehouse robotics and inventory systems.

  Founded Dexory

• Andrei Danescu1 founding

  CEO of Dexory, a UK robotics company developing autonomous mobile robots for warehouse inventory management.

  Founded Dexory

• Dr. Li Luyang1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of VisionNav Robotics. VisionNav was founded in 2016 to develop autonomous industrial vehicles and logistics automation solutions.

  Founded VisionNav Robotics

• Yunhui Liu1 founding

  Co-founder and Chairman of VisionNav Robotics. Founded the company in 2016.

  Founded VisionNav Robotics

• Jack Oswald1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Singularity, a defense technology company building low-cost air defense interceptors at scale. Studied Aerospace Engineering at MIT, worked a...

  Founded Singularity

• Shail Giroux1 founding

  Co-founder and COO of Singularity, a defense company building low-cost air defense interceptors at scale. Previously built and sold a farming robotics company a...

  Founded Singularity

• John Ma1 founding

  Founder Chairman and CEO of Ronovo Surgical.

  Founded Ronovo Surgical

• Yu Enyuan1 founding

  Founder and CEO Neolix (2016-); built autonomous delivery vehicle company; deployed in China and expanded internationally under Korea Act.

  Founded Neolix Technologies

• Brad Bogolea1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Simbe Robotics, maker of the Tally retail inventory robot; founded the company in 2014.

  Founded Simbe Robotics

• Mirza Akbar Shah1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Simbe Robotics; previously an engineer at Willow Garage, part of the robotics talent diaspora that lab seeded.

  Founded Simbe Robotics

• Jeff Gee1 founding

  Co-founder of Simbe Robotics, the retail-inventory-robotics company behind the Tally robot.

  Founded Simbe Robotics

• Mehul Nariyawala1 founding

  Co-founder and President of Matic Robots in San Francisco. Developing privacy-first AI-powered robot vacuums with on-device mapping.

  Founded Matician

• Navneet Dalal1 founding

  Navneet Dalal is the founder of Matic (formerly Matician), which builds home-cleaning robots. He co-founded the company in 2017 with Mehul Nariyawala and was pr...

  Founded Matician

• Greg Cross1 founding

  Serial tech entrepreneur and co-founder of Soul Machines. Former Chief Business Officer and CEO. Stepped down as CEO in September 2023, resigned from board in J...

  Founded Soul Machines

• Mark Sagar1 founding

  Double Academy Award-winning CGI researcher. Co-founder and former Chief Science Officer of Soul Machines. Director of the Laboratory for Animate Technologies a...

  Founded Soul Machines

• Andreas Bibl1 founding

  Serial entrepreneur. Previously co-founded and led LuxVue Technology (low-power microLED displays), acquired by Apple in 2014. Served as Senior Director of Adva...

  Founded Tacta Systems

• Dor Skuler1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Intuition Robotics (founded 2016), maker of ElliQ, a social companion robot for older adults. Previously a serial entrepreneur and executi...

  Founded Intuition Robotics

• Giuseppe Maria Prisco1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Medical Microinstruments (MMI; founded 2015 near Pisa), maker of the Symani microsurgery robot.

  Founded Medical Microinstruments (MMI)

• Hannah Teichmann1 founding

  Co-founder of Medical Microinstruments (MMI, founded 2015), maker of the Symani Surgical System for microsurgery.

  Founded Medical Microinstruments (MMI)

• Massimiliano Simi1 founding

  Co-founder of Medical Microinstruments (MMI, founded 2015), the robotic-microsurgery company behind the Symani system.

  Founded Medical Microinstruments (MMI)

• Nahid Harjee1 founding

  Co-founder and inventor. Named on Tacta Systems patents for robotic hand and sensing glove technology.

  Founded Tacta Systems

• Tracy Kelley1 founding

  President and Chief Science Officer at [Sion Power](/companies/sion-power), with the company for 20+ years. Previously served eight years as CEO and five years ...

  Founded Sion Power Corporation

• Vikram Pavate1 founding

  Serial entrepreneur. Previously co-founded and led Locix, a spatial intelligence company.

  Founded Tacta Systems

• Vikash Mishra1 founding

  Co-founder and Chairman of Raphe mPhibr. Founded the company with his brother Vivek in 2017. Leads strategy and government relations.

  Founded Raphe mPhibr

• David Henri1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Exotrail. Previously served as CEO from the company's founding until October 2021, when he transitioned to CPO to focus ...

  Founded Exotrail

• Jean-Luc Maria1 founding

  Co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Exotrail. Former CTO who succeeded David Henri as CEO in October 2021 to lead the company's hypergrowth phase.

  Founded Exotrail

• Nicolas Heitz1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Exotrail, responsible for operations as the company scales globally.

  Founded Exotrail

• Paul Lascombes1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Scientist of Exotrail, leading scientific and technical research for the company's space mobility solutions.

  Founded Exotrail

• John Harris1 founding

  CEO and co-founder of Harbinger Motors, an electric medium-duty commercial vehicle manufacturer in Gardena, California. Holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering a...

  Founded Harbinger

• Nelson Mills1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Vatn Systems. Leading the company's mission to build affordable, scalable autonomous underwater vehicles for naval defense.

  Founded Vatn Systems

• Scott Stephenson1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Deepgram, an AI speech understanding company.

  Founded Deepgram

• Gal Niv1 founding

  Co-founder of [Enigma](/companies/enigma), an AI robotics research lab emerging from stealth in July 2026 with a $71M seed round led by Index Ventures and Ribbi...

  Founded Enigma

• Jonathan Jacobi1 founding

  Co-founder of [Enigma](/companies/enigma), an AI robotics research lab that raised a $71M seed round in July 2026 led by Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital. Micr...

  Founded Enigma

• Cynthia Breazeal1 founding

  Founder of Jibo.

  Founded Jibo

• Biwei Huang1 founding

  Assistant Professor at UC San Diego and globally recognized researcher in causal discovery and machine learning. Creator of open-source tools Causal-Learn and C...

  Founded Aether AI

• Brian Joseph1 founding

  Co-founder of Vitestro (founded 2017), the autonomous robotic phlebotomy company.

  Founded Vitestro

• Emile de Rijk1 founding

  Dr. Emile de Rijk is CEO and co-founder of SWISSto12, a Swiss space company building HummingSat geostationary small satellites using 3D printing technology. Est...

  Founded SWISSto12

• Guo Jiajun1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of DEEP Robotics (DeepRobotics, founded 2017), Hangzhou-based Chinese quadruped robot company. Makes the Jueying and Lite3 quadruped robots f...

  Founded DEEP Robotics

• Kevin Wang1 founding

  Founder of ELEGOO, a manufacturer of 3D printers and electronic kits.

  Founded ELEGOO

• Toon Overbeeke1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Vitestro (founded 2017), the Dutch company developing an autonomous robotic blood-drawing (phlebotomy) device.

  Founded Vitestro

• Tyler Bernstein1 founding

  Co-Founder and CEO of Zeno Power, a company developing radioisotope power systems (RPS) for space and defense applications. Bernstein co-founded Zeno Power in 2...

  Founded Zeno Power

• Yibiao Zhao1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of ISEE AI, an MIT spinout building autonomous yard trucks for logistics operations. Earned a PhD in computer vision from UCLA (2011–2015), t...

  Founded ISEE AI

• Dave Fick1 founding

  Co-founder of Mythic AI, served as CTO and later CEO. Pioneered analog matrix processor technology.

  Founded Mythic AI

• Eric Zheng1 founding

  Founder and CEO of RealMan Robotics (RealMan Intelligent), a Beijing-based manufacturer of ultra-lightweight robotic arms and joint modules for the Physical AI ...

  Founded RealMan Robotics

• Fraser Smith1 founding

  Former president of Raytheon Sarcos. He led the acquisition of the Sarcos business, a management buyout set in motion with Ben Wolff in which the leadership tea...

  Founded Sarcos Robotics

• Fred Shentu1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of XDOF, co-authored GELLO teleoperation system at UC Berkeley

  Founded XDOF

• Mike Henry1 founding

  Co-founder and former CEO of Mythic AI. Pioneered analog compute-in-memory technology for AI inference.

  Founded Mythic AI

• Nemo Jin1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of XDOF

  Founded XDOF

• Philipp Wu1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of XDOF, former UC Berkeley PhD student who co-authored GELLO, a low-cost teleoperation system for robotic arms

  Founded XDOF

• Stephen Jacobsen1 founding

  Stephen Jacobsen (1940 to 2016) was an American bioengineer and Distinguished Professor at the University of Utah. He founded Sarcos, a maker of robots and micr...

  Founded Sarcos Robotics

• Zhu Qiuguo1 founding

  Founded DEEP Robotics in Hangzhou in 2017. Specializes in quadruped robot systems for industrial applications.

  Founded DEEP Robotics

• Zhu Lei (朱磊)1 founding

  Co-founder & CEO of [White Rhino](/companies/white-rhino), a Beijing-based autonomous delivery vehicle company founded in April 2019. Zhu Lei is a former member...

  Founded White Rhino

• Jakub Czakon1 founding

  Co-founder of Neptune.ai, the MLOps experiment tracking platform acquired by OpenAI in December 2025. Previously focused on ML and MLOps content and community.

  Founded Neptune.ai

• Paulina Prachnio1 founding

  Co-founder of Neptune.ai, the MLOps experiment tracking platform acquired by OpenAI in December 2025.

  Founded Neptune.ai

• Piotr Lusakowski1 founding

  Co-founder of Neptune.ai, the MLOps experiment tracking platform acquired by OpenAI in December 2025.

  Founded Neptune.ai

• Piotr Niedzwiedz1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Neptune.ai, an MLOps experiment tracking platform acquired by OpenAI in December 2025. Previously co-founder and CTO of deepsense.ai (2014-20...

  Founded Neptune.ai

• Ariyan Kabir1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of GrayMatter Robotics (founded 2020); PhD in Robotics/AI from USC.

  Founded GrayMatter Robotics

• Brual Shah1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of GrayMatter Robotics (founded 2020); leads the company's technical vision for AI-powered robotic systems that demystify industrial robotics...

  Founded GrayMatter Robotics

• Satyandra K. Gupta1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Scientist of GrayMatter Robotics (founded 2020); Smith-Zwijnenburg Professor and director of the USC ADDIT Lab at the University of Souther...

  Founded GrayMatter Robotics

• Pranjal Mehta1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of [The ePlane Company](/companies/eplane-company), the Chennai-based eVTOL startup he co-founded in 2019 with Prof. Satya Chakravarthy as an...

  Founded The ePlane Company

• Prof. Satya Chakravarthy1 founding

  Professor of Aerospace Engineering at IIT Madras and founder/CTO of [The ePlane Company](/companies/eplane-company), India's first DGCA-certified eVTOL develope...

  Founded The ePlane Company

• Yeonbaek Lee1 founding

  CEO of WIRobotics, a South Korean robotics company developing wearable assistive robots and exoskeletons for mobility enhancement.

  Founded WIRobotics

• Yongjae Kim1 founding

  Co-CEO and CTO of WIRobotics, developing the ALLEX humanoid robot with ultra-low-friction actuation and whole-body compliance.

  Founded WIRobotics

• Younbaek Lee1 founding

  Co-CEO of WIRobotics, building the ALLEX humanoid robot platform in Seoul. Leading the company's physical AI development ecosystem.

  Founded WIRobotics

• Ariel Avitan1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Commercial Officer of Percepto.

  Founded Percepto

• Arshan Poursohi1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Third Wave Automation (autonomous forklifts, founded 2018); previously director of engineering at Toyota Research Institute and a software...

  Founded Third Wave Automation

• Dor Abuhasira1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Percepto (autonomous industrial-inspection drones).

  Founded Percepto

• Raviv Raz1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Policy & Safety Officer of Percepto; a former Israeli Air Force pilot and flight-test engineer at Israel Aerospace Industries.

  Founded Percepto

• Sagi Blonder1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Percepto; previously at Freescale Semiconductor. BSc in Physics and Electrical Engineering from Ben-Gurion University.

  Founded Percepto

• Lael Odhner1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of RightHand Robotics (founded 2014, Cambridge MA). PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Yale University. Developed the iRobot-Harvard-Yale (iH...

  Founded RightHand Robotics

• Yaro Tenzer1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of RightHand Robotics (founded 2014, Cambridge MA). Originally served as CEO from founding through early 2023, then stepped back to Chairman ...

  Founded RightHand Robotics

• Leif Jentoft1 founding

  Co-founder and former Chief Strategy Officer of RightHand Robotics (founded 2014, Cambridge MA). PhD in Bioengineering from Harvard University (Robert Howe lab)...

  Founded RightHand Robotics

• Da Liu (刘达)1 founding

  Founder and CEO of [Remebot](/companies/remebot) (Beijing Bohuiweikang Technology), a Chinese medical robotics company he established in August 2010 to commerci...

  Founded Remebot

• Sebastien Boyer1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO FarmWise (2016-); MIT mechanical engineering; built AI-powered autonomous weeding robot for vegetable farms.

  Founded FarmWise

• Soroush Karimzadeh1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Novarc Technologies, the Vancouver welding-robotics company behind the Spool Welding Robot.

  Founded Novarc Technologies

• Thomas Palomares1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO FarmWise; computer vision and robotics engineer; architected weed detection and robotic control systems.

  Founded FarmWise

• Adam Wolf1 founding

  Adam Wolf founded Arable in 2014 after building the Mark sensor with NSF grant funding at Princeton. He holds a Masters in Agronomy from UC Davis.

  Founded Arable

• Michelle Lee1 founding

  Michelle Lee, PhD is the founder and CEO of Medra, building the first Physical AI Scientist platform. She leads the company's vision of integrating AI scientifi...

  Founded Medra

• Sho Nakanose1 founding

  Founder and CEO of GITAI (2016), a Tokyo-based space robotics startup developing general-purpose work robots for in-orbit assembly, inspection, and servicing. F...

  Founded GITAI

• Xiong Rong1 founding

  Chief Scientist and General Manager of Zhejiang Humanoid Robot Innovation Center. Professor at Zhejiang University with 25 years of experience in intelligent ro...

  Founded Zhejiang Humanoid Robot Innovation Center

• Philipp Herget1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Dusty Robotics; previously robotics hardware lead at Savioke and at IBM and Philips Research. PhD from Carnegie Mellon.

  Founded Dusty Robotics

• Tessa Lau1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Dusty Robotics (construction layout robots); previously a research scientist at Willow Garage, co-founder/CTO of Savioke, and ~11 years at IB...

  Founded Dusty Robotics

• Nicolas Chee1 founding

  Founder and CEO of ForwardX Robotics, a Beijing-based AMR company. Former Oracle VP who built ForwardX into a global leader in vision-based autonomous intralogi...

  Founded ForwardX Robotics

• Hadrien Canter1 founding

  Co-founder & CEO of Alta Ares. AI-first air defense company building counter-drone interceptors. Black Bird turbojet interceptor tested in Arctic conditions wit...

  Founded Alta Ares

• Andre Reitenbach1 founding

  Founder of Gcore, an edge AI, cloud, network, and security company headquartered in Contern, Luxembourg. Founded 2014.

  Founded Gcore

• Dustin Freckleton1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Happy Health (Happy Ring); a physician (MD).

  Founded Happy Health

• Felipe Polido1 founding

  Co-Founder and Head of Tech at Reframe Systems. Former Amazon Robotics leader who helped scale advanced automation systems globally.

  Founded Reframe Systems

• Fermi Wang1 founding

  Serial entrepreneur and video compression technology expert. Co-founder, Chairman, and CEO of Ambarella since 2004. Previously CEO and co-founder of Afara Websy...

  Founded Ambarella

• Les Kohn1 founding

  Renowned Silicon Valley chip architect. Co-founder and CTO of Ambarella. Previously co-founded Afara Websystems (acquired by Sun Microsystems), was chief archit...

  Founded Ambarella

• Sean Rad1 founding

  Co-founder of Happy Health. Founder of Tinder. Leading Happy Health's smart ring wellness wearable with 0M Series A from ARCH Venture Partners.

  Founded Happy Health

• Vikas Enti1 founding

  Co-Founder and CEO of Reframe Systems. Former Amazon Robotics leader who spent a decade helping deploy over 500,000 robots across Amazon's fulfillment network.

  Founded Reframe Systems

• Wenyan Jiang1 founding

  Wenyan Jiang is founder and chair of the board of Yuneec International, which she co-founded with Yu Tian in Hong Kong in 1999. Yuneec makes electric drones and...

  Founded ATL Global Holding AG

• Jamie McAvity1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Cormint Data Systems, a West Texas–based Bitcoin mining company. Former commodities and derivatives trader; previously helped scale real esta...

  Founded Cormint Data Systems

• Ryan Gordon1 founding

  Co-founder and Executive Vice President of Cormint Data Systems, a West Texas–based Bitcoin mining company operating out of Fort Stockton, Texas. Leads the data...

  Founded Cormint Data Systems

• Andreas Jansson1 founding

  Founded Replicate

• Ben Firshman1 founding

  Founded Replicate

• Randall Lipps1 founding

  Founder, Chairman, President, and CEO of Omnicell, the pharmacy-automation and medication-management company he founded in 1992.

  Founded Omnicell

• Aymeric Barthes1 founding

  Co-founder and former President/CEO of Naio Technologies (founded 2011); current status uncertain after the 2025 new-ownership relaunch (not named in the new le...

  Founded Naio Technologies

• Gaetan Severac1 founding

  Co-founder and former COO/CTO of Naio Technologies (founded 2011); current status uncertain after the 2025 relaunch. Robotics degree from IMERIR (Perpignan) and...

  Founded Naio Technologies

• Yaniv Maor1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Tevel Aerobotics, maker of flying autonomous fruit-picking robots; previously a senior manager at Israel Aerospace Industries.

  Founded Tevel Aerobotics

• Bercan Kilic1 founding

  Founder and CEO of microagi. Former Formula 1 engineer at Red Bull Racing; founded microagi in late 2025 to build a robotics deployment layer for industrial man...

  Founded microagi

• Gilbert Gagnaire1 founding

  Founder and CEO of EasyMile, the French autonomous-shuttle company behind the EZ10; previously co-founded fintech firm Fermat.

  Founded EasyMile

• Wason Lan1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Eacon Mining Technology, a mining automation company.

  Founded Eacon Mining Technology

• Li Zhichen is the CEO and co-founder of SwitchBot (Woan Technology). He holds a master's in electronics from Nanyang Technological University and previously worked at a Singapore-based tech firm before founding SwitchBot in 2015.1 founding

  Li Zhichen is CEO and co-founder of Woan Technology, which sells smart home robots under the SwitchBot brand. He started the company with a team of Harbin Insti...

  Founded SwitchBot (Woan Technology)

• Pan Yang1 founding

  Pan Yang is the co-founder of SwitchBot (Woan Technology). A Harbin Institute of Technology alumnus, he led the engineering of the SwitchBot Bot finger robot wi...

  Founded SwitchBot (Woan Technology)

• Austin Briggs1 founding

  Co-founder & CTO of Inversion Space. Former early employee at ABL Space Systems, where he was Responsible Engineer for the upper stage thrust chamber assembly.

  Founded Inversion Space

• Justin Fiaschetti1 founding

  Co-founder & CEO of Inversion Space, a Los Angeles-based company building re-entry capsules for on-demand delivery from orbit. Former propulsion engineer on Spa...

  Founded Inversion Space

• Eran Meller1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Ecoppia, the water-free robotic solar-panel cleaning company (founded 2013); previously CFO at several acquired technology firms.

  Founded Ecoppia

• Jose Acain1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of AstroForge. Previously engineer at SpaceX and NASA JPL.

  Founded AstroForge

• Matt Gialich1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of AstroForge. Previously engineer at SpaceX and Virgin Orbit.

  Founded AstroForge

• Armin G. Schmidt1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of German Bionic. Led the company since its founding in 2017 through insolvency in 2025 and acquisition by Archimedes Partners in 2026.

  Founded German Bionic

• Dirk Pöschl1 founding

  Co-founder of German Bionic.

  Founded German Bionic

• Dr. Peter Heiligensetzer1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of German Bionic. Led the development of the Cray X, Apogee, and Exia exoskeleton platforms.

  Founded German Bionic

• Michael Halbherr1 founding

  Co-founder of German Bionic.

  Founded German Bionic

• Alden Woodrow1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Ike, an autonomous trucking startup that emerged from stealth in 2018. Previously product lead at Otto (acquired by Uber) working on self-...

  Founded Ike

• Guava Suleiman1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Terra Industries, building autonomous defense drones for the African market.

  Founded Terra Industries

• Jur van den Berg1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Ike, an autonomous trucking startup. Born 1981 in Groningen, Netherlands. PhD from Utrecht University under Mark Overmars in computational...

  Founded Ike

• Kola Ogunlade1 founding

  Co-founder of Terra Industries, building autonomous defense drones for the African market.

  Founded Terra Industries

• Nancy Sun1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Engineer of Ike, an autonomous trucking startup. Previously worked at Google, Apple, Otto, and Uber on autonomous vehicle technology. Later...

  Founded Ike

• Adam Burris1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Guardian Agriculture, developing autonomous eVTOL crop protection drones. First eVTOL-maker with FAA commercial operation approval.

  Founded Guardian Agriculture

• Gajan Mohanarajah1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Rapyuta Robotics, spun out of ETH Zurich. Leading cloud robotics platform development in Tokyo.

  Founded Rapyuta Robotics

• Nobu Okada1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Astroscale (2013). Founded the company in Singapore after attending a 2013 conference on space debris where he saw a clear problem and no act...

  Founded Astroscale

• Anthony DiMare1 founding

  Co-founder of Bedrock Ocean Exploration (2020). Authored the founding Medium post introducing the company and its mission to map, monitor, and understand the se...

  Founded Bedrock Ocean

• Charles Chiau1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Bedrock Ocean Exploration (2020). Leads the company in building autonomous underwater vehicles for commercial seafloor mapping, offshore w...

  Founded Bedrock Ocean

• Kaname Hayashi1 founding

  Founder and CEO of GROOVE X (founded 2018), maker of the LOVOT companion robot; previously Pepper product leader at SoftBank Robotics and a product-planning man...

  Founded Groove X

• Ahti Heinla1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Starship Technologies (CEO until 2021); a founding engineer of Skype and developer of Kazaa.

  Founded Starship Technologies

• AJ Meyer1 founding

  CEO of Pickle Robot, a company developing AI-powered robotic systems for warehouse logistics and package handling.

  Founded Pickle Robot

• Baiju Bhatt1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Aetherflux (now Cowboy Space Corporation), a San Carlos, California-based startup developing space-based solar power beaming via infrared las...

  Founded Aetherflux

• Colin Beighley1 founding

  Co-founder of Swift Navigation.

  Founded Swift Navigation

• Erik Nieves1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Plus One Robotics in San Antonio, Texas, developing AI vision software for robotic parcel handling.

  Founded Plus One Robotics

• Fergus Noble1 founding

  Co-founder of Swift Navigation.

  Founded Swift Navigation

• Hendrik Kramer1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of FERNRIDE (spun out of TU Munich in 2019 with Maximilian Fisser and Jean-Michael Georg); makes tele-operated/autonomous electric terminal t...

  Founded FERNRIDE

• Janus Friis1 founding

  Co-founder of Starship Technologies; co-founder of Kazaa, Skype and Joost (with Niklas Zennstrom) and of the VC firm Atomico.

  Founded Starship Technologies

• Jean-Michael Georg1 founding

  Co-founder of FERNRIDE (TU Munich spinout, 2019), the autonomous-electric terminal-tractor company.

  Founded FERNRIDE

• Jim Cantrell1 founding

  CEO and Co-founder of Phantom Space Corporation, an Arizona-based launch vehicle and satellite company. A founding team member and the first VP of Business Deve...

  Founded Phantom Space

• Maximilian Fisser1 founding

  Co-founder of FERNRIDE (TU Munich spinout, 2019), the autonomous yard-truck company.

  Founded FERNRIDE

• Nikita Rudin1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Flexion Robotics, a Zurich-based robotics intelligence startup building the autonomy stack for humanoid robots. Raised 0M Series A led by ...

  Founded Flexion Robotics

• Timothy Harris1 founding

  Co-founder of Swift Navigation; CEO as of May 2016.

  Founded Swift Navigation

• Tom Walker1 founding

  Founder and former CEO of DroneUp, a Virginia Beach-based drone delivery company he founded in 2016 as a U.S. Navy veteran. He led DroneUp to a landmark 2021 ex...

  Founded DroneUp

• Tom Walker1 founding

  Founder and CEO of DroneUp, a drone delivery and inspection company.

  Founded DroneUp

• John Burd1 founding

  Co-founded Dexcom in 1999 and led the development of the first FDA-approved continuous glucose monitoring system.

  Founded Dexcom

• Scott Glenn1 founding

  Co-founded Dexcom in 1999.

  Founded Dexcom

• Frederik Brantner1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Magazino GmbH, leading Munich-based mobile robotics company acquired by Jungheinrich AG in 2022.

  Founded Magazino

• Lukas Zanger1 founding

  Co-founder of Magazino GmbH, Munich-based mobile robotics company.

  Founded Magazino

• Yossi Bar1 founding

  Founder and CEO of LEM Surgical. Leading development of next-generation robotic surgical systems for hard tissue and spine surgery.

  Founded LEM Surgical

• Crijn Bouman1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Rocsys, leading the company's mission to enable autonomous mobility through hands-free charging infrastructure.

  Founded Rocsys

• Joost van de Weijde1 founding

  Co-founder and Head of Technology & IP at Rocsys, an autonomous charging company for electric and autonomous vehicle fleets.

  Founded Rocsys

• Kanter van Deurzen1 founding

  Co-founder and Head of Development at Rocsys.

  Founded Rocsys

• Erik Schluntz1 founding

  Co-founder and former CTO of Cobalt Robotics, which builds security guard robots for offices and warehouses, started with Travis Deyle. He previously worked on ...

  Founded Cobalt Robotics

• Darsi Zhang1 founding

  Darsi Zhang co-founded SureStar in 2005 and brings over 18 years of experience in LiDAR R&D. Previously worked at K&S, a leading semiconductor packaging and ele...

  Founded Beijing Surestar Technology

• Dr. Jane Zhang1 founding

  Dr. Jane Zhang (Zhiwu Zhang) co-founded SureStar in 2005 after earning her Ph.D from the University of Guelph. She leads the company's strategic direction in au...

  Founded Beijing Surestar Technology

• Curtis Garner1 founding

  Co-founder of Verdant Robotics, bringing deep farming experience to the precision spray-application ag-robotics company.

  Founded Verdant Robotics

• Gabe Sibley1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Verdant Robotics; an AI and robotics researcher (SLAM/perception) who co-founded the precision-agriculture company behind the SharpShooter wi...

  Founded Verdant Robotics

• Bryton Shang1 founding

  Founder of Aquabyte (now Executive Chairman), which applies machine vision and AI to salmon aquaculture for biomass estimation, sea-lice counting, and feeding; ...

  Founded Aquabyte

• Akhil Voorakkara1 founding

  Co-Founder and CEO of Ulysses, the San Francisco-based maritime robotics company building networked fleets of low-cost autonomous surface and underwater vehicle...

  Founded Ulysses

• Colm O'Brien1 founding

  Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Ulysses, the San Francisco-based maritime robotics company building autonomous surface and underwater vehicles for oce...

  Founded Ulysses

• Jamie Wedderburn1 founding

  Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Ulysses, building autonomous maritime vehicles for ocean stewardship and defense. One of three Irish founders and a S...

  Founded Ulysses

• Will O'Brien1 founding

  Co-Founder and President of Ulysses, building autonomous low-cost robots for the ocean. Previously worked on Formula 1 cars, satellites, space lasers, and self-...

  Founded Ulysses

• Loïc Roch1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Automata, developing lab automation robotics.

  Founded Automata

• Mostafa ElSayed1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Automata (Automata Technologies), the London lab-automation company behind the LINQ benchtop platform.

  Founded Automata

• Satoshi Sugie1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of WHILL, a Japanese personal-mobility company developing design-forward electric wheelchairs and autonomous mobility devices. Led WHILL from...

  Founded WHILL

• Suryansh Chandra1 founding

  Co-founder of Automata, the London lab-automation robotics company.

  Founded Automata

• Aaron Nathan1 founding

  Aaron Nathan is CEO and co-founder of Point One Navigation. He previously led Cornell's DARPA Grand Challenge team, was Chief Architect at Coherent Navigation (...

  Founded PointOne

• Charlie Andersen1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Burro (formerly Augean Robotics). Previously worked at CNHi and in autonomy M&A before founding the collaborative farm robot company.

  Founded Burro

• Rajat Bhageria1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Chef Robotics; Wharton alumnus; building AI-powered food-assembly robots for industrial kitchens. Led $43M Series A (2023) and $20.6M round (...

  Founded Chef Robotics

• Albert Sanes1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of PAL Robotics (founded 2004), Barcelona. Leads technical development of PAL's humanoid and service robot platforms including TIAGo, TALOS, ...

  Founded PAL Robotics

• Francesco Ferro1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of PAL Robotics (founded 2004), Barcelona-based humanoid and service robot company. PAL makes TIAGo (mobile manipulation), TALOS (industrial ...

  Founded PAL Robotics

• H.J. Terry Suh1 founding

  CTO of CarbonSix. PhD from MIT CSAIL. Previously worked with Boston Dynamics Robotics and AI Institute, Toyota Research Institute, and NASA Jet Propulsion Labor...

  Founded CarbonSix

• Jasen Wang (Wang Jianjun)1 founding

  Founder & CEO of [Makeblock](/companies/makeblock), a Shenzhen-based educational robotics company founded in 2012. Jasen Wang (Wang Jianjun) earned a Master's d...

  Founded Makeblock

• Jehyuk Kim1 founding

  Co-founder and Co-CEO of CarbonSix. AI and robotics researcher with academic experience from MIT, Yale University, Seoul National University, and KAIST. Leads d...

  Founded CarbonSix

• Judah L.1 founding

  Co-Founder at Robot.com. Previously Founder & CEO of Nickelytics.

  Founded Robot.com

• Davis Foster1 founding

  Co-founder of Scythe Robotics; previously at spatial-computing company Occipital.

  Founded Scythe Robotics

• Isaac Roberts1 founding

  Co-founder of Scythe Robotics; previously co-founded computer-vision startup Replica Labs.

  Founded Scythe Robotics

• Jack Morrison1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Scythe Robotics (founded 2018); a computer-vision and robotics-software engineer who began at MITRE building CV systems for UAV imagery an...

  Founded Scythe Robotics

• Justin Cyrus1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Lunar Outpost (January 2017), Golden CO. Builds autonomous lunar rovers including MAPP and the Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV) selected by NASA. ...

  Founded Lunar Outpost

• Mike Henry1 founding

  CEO of BHP Group, a global mining company deploying autonomous haul trucks and drilling systems.

  Founded Parasail

• Tim Harris1 founding

  Founded Parasail

• Alon Kosowsky-Sachs1 founding

  Co-founder of Tutor Intelligence, a robotics company led by CEO Josh Gruenstein that raised a $34 million Series A. The company's leadership brings technical ex...

  Founded Tutor Intelligence

• Josh Gruenstein1 founding

  MIT graduate and robotics enthusiast who co-founded Tutor Intelligence in 2021. Built robots as a hobby since age 8 and developed the fleet-scale learning appro...

  Founded Tutor Intelligence

• Andreas Raptopoulos1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Matternet, the US/Swiss drone-logistics company he started in 2011 to build autonomous medical-delivery networks.

  Founded Matternet

• David Godwin1 founding

  Co-founder and Executive Chairman of Slingshot Aerospace, an Austin, Texas-based space intelligence and space situational awareness company he co-founded in 201...

  Founded Slingshot Aerospace

• Henry Hu1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Cafe X, founded in 2014. Pioneered robotic coffee bars and pivoted from retail stores to airport locations.

  Founded Cafe X

• Junghee Ryu1 founding

  Serial entrepreneur and KAIST PhD. Previously founded Olaworks (acquired by Intel in Intel's first Korean startup acquisition) and FuturePlay. Now leading RLWRL...

  Founded RLWRLD

• Kang Ki-hyuk1 founding

  Kang Ki-hyuk is CEO of Neubility, a South Korean AI robot service and platform company founded in 2017. In 2026 the company showed its Neubility Control Center ...

  Founded Neubility

• Lee Sang-min1 founding

  Lee Sang-min founded Neubility, a physical AI robot service and platform company, in 2017 while a student at Yonsei University. As CEO, he received an individua...

  Founded Neubility

• Muzavar Faraaz Baig1 founding

  Co-founder of Airbound.

  Founded Airbound

• Naman Pushp1 founding

  Naman Pushp is co-founder of Airbound, an Indian drone delivery startup founded in 2022 with Faraaz Baig. The company develops the TRT, a blended wing body tail...

  Founded Airbound

• Yashi Pushp1 founding

  Co-founder of Airbound.

  Founded Airbound

• Adrian Macneil1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Foxglove, a robotics observability and development tooling company. Previously Director of Infrastructure Engineering at Cruise and Direct...

  Founded Foxglove

• Anmol Manohar1 founding

  CEO of Greenjets, a company developing electric jet engines for commercial drones and propulsors for eVTOL and regional aircraft.

  Founded Greenjets

• Daniel Maturana1 founding

  Daniel Maturana is a co-founder of Gather AI, bringing expertise in deep learning and computer vision to the warehouse inventory drone platform.

  Founded Gather AI

• Dr. Guido Monterzino1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Greenjets. Educated at Cranfield University. Leads the company's proprietary propulsion architecture development.

  Founded Greenjets

• Hagai Zyss1 founding

  CEO of Autotalks, now VP of Product Management at Qualcomm following the June 2025 acquisition.

  Founded Autotalks

• Kam Ghaffarian1 founding

  Iranian-born American entrepreneur and co-founder of [Axiom Space](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom_Space), [Intuitive Machines](/companies/intuitive-machine...

  Founded Quantum Space

• Michael Norcia1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Pyka (founded 2017), maker of large autonomous electric aircraft for agricultural spraying (Pelican Spray) and cargo.

  Founded Pyka

• Onn Haran1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Autotalks, pioneering V2X chipset technology for vehicle-to-everything communication.

  Founded Autotalks

• Ryohei Kobayashi1 founding

  Japanese aerospace engineer and co-founder/CEO of [ElevationSpace](/companies/elevationspace), developing in-space manufacturing, orbital laboratory, and satell...

  Founded ElevationSpace

• Sankalp Arora1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Gather AI (founded 2018 out of Carnegie Mellon), maker of AI-powered autonomous warehouse inventory drones; previously worked on DARPA aut...

  Founded Gather AI

• Maor Farid1 founding

  Co-founder of Flytrex, building autonomous drone delivery systems for food and retail.

  Founded Flytrex

• Rémi Cadène1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO at UMA (Universal Mechanical Assistant), building general-purpose mobile and humanoid robots on top of LeRobot. Formerly robotics research sc...

  Founded UMA

• Roman Shtylman1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Foxglove, a robotics observability and development tooling company. Previously software engineer at Cruise and Coinbase. Co-founded Foxglo...

  Founded Foxglove

• Yariv Bash1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Flytrex, pioneering FAA-approved backyard drone delivery. Previously founded Flytrex in 2013.

  Founded Flytrex

• Yotam Drechsler1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of BrainQ Technologies.

  Founded BrainQ

• Aviram Shmueli1 founding

  Co-founder of Bluewhite. One of three original founders who established the company in 2017 to bring practical autonomy to off-road environments.

  Founded Bluewhite

• Ben Alfi1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Bluewhite, the autonomous tractor company he founded in 2017, which retrofits existing farm machines with its autonomy system. He previous...

  Founded Bluewhite

• Yair Shahar1 founding

  Co-founder and COO of Bluewhite. Leads operations and business development for the autonomous tractor retrofit platform.

  Founded Bluewhite

• Asad Tirmizi1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Trener Robotics (formerly T-ROBOTICS), a San Francisco and Trondheim-based startup building Acteris, a robot-agnostic AI skills platform f...

  Founded Trener Robotics

• Lars Tingelstad1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Trener Robotics (formerly T-ROBOTICS). He holds a PhD and served as Associate Professor of Robotic Production at the Norwegian University ...

  Founded Trener Robotics

• Daniel Kobran1 founding

  Founded Paperspace

• Dillon Erb1 founding

  Founded Paperspace

• Danny Goodman1 founding

  CEO and co-founder of Swarm Aero, which is developing large swarming uncrewed combat aircraft designed to be cheaper than traditional crewed aircraft. The compa...

  Founded Swarm Aero

• Ignacio Galiana1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Verve Motion (2020-present); PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Harvard University; former staff engineer and program manager at the Wyss ...

  Founded Verve Motion

• Ivan Poupyrev1 founding

  Founder and CEO of [Archetype AI](/companies/archetype-ai), building Newton, a foundation model for physical world sensor data. Born in Russia, named a Carnegie...

  Founded Archetype AI

• Nick Gillian1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Archetype AI, developing AI-powered physical world sensing.

  Founded Archetype AI

• Pramod Ghadge1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Unbox Robotics in Pune, India. Started the company at age 29, building warehouse robotics sortation systems.

  Founded Unbox Robotics

• Conor Walsh1 founding

  Co-founder of Verve Motion; Harvard professor and PI of the Harvard Biodesign Lab (Wyss Institute). The SafeLift exosuit commercializes his lab's research. Prim...

  Founded Verve Motion

• Julius Amrit1 founding

  Co-founder, COO & Director of NewSpace Research and Technologies.

  Founded NewSpace Research and Technologies

• Sameer Joshi1 founding

  Sameer Joshi is a former Indian Air Force officer who founded and runs NewSpace Research and Technologies, a defence drone startup developing a High-Altitude Ps...

  Founded NewSpace Research and Technologies

• Marc Wietfeld1 founding

  Marc Wietfeld is co-founder and CEO of ARX Robotics, a German defense technology company developing autonomous UGVs. He is a former German Army officer who foun...

  Founded ARX Robotics

• Maximilian Wied1 founding

  Co-founder and CFO of ARX Robotics, a Munich-based defense robotics company. Former German Bundeswehr officer with first-hand insight into military operational ...

  Founded ARX Robotics

• Stefan Roebel1 founding

  Co-founder and COO of ARX Robotics, a Munich-based defense robotics company building modular unmanned ground systems. Former German Bundeswehr officer who serve...

  Founded ARX Robotics

• Matt Angle1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Paradromics, an Austin-based neurotechnology company building high-data-rate brain-computer interfaces to restore communication and autonomy ...

  Founded Paradromics

• Pal Johan From1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Saga Robotics (founded 2016), maker of the Thorvald autonomous farm robot; a robotics professor specializing in agricultural automation.

  Founded Saga Robotics

• Lars Grimstad1 founding

  Co-founder of Saga Robotics with Dr. Pal Johan From. Co-developed the Thorvald autonomous robot platform.

  Founded Saga Robotics

• Carl Allendorph1 founding

  Co-founder of advanced.farm (Advanced Farm Technologies), the robotic-harvesting company.

  Founded Advanced Farm Technologies

• Cedric Jeanty1 founding

  Co-founder of advanced.farm (Advanced Farm Technologies), the robotic-harvesting company.

  Founded Advanced Farm Technologies

• Kyle Cobb1 founding

  Co-founder, president, and CFO of advanced.farm (Advanced Farm Technologies), maker of robotic strawberry- and apple-harvesting systems.

  Founded Advanced Farm Technologies

• Marc Grossman1 founding

  Co-founder of advanced.farm (Advanced Farm Technologies), the robotic-harvesting company.

  Founded Advanced Farm Technologies

• Puneet Puri1 founding

  Serial robotics founder. CEO and co-founder of Gritt. CMU Robotics Institute and Stanford GSB alum. Previously developed the world's first inspection drones for...

  Founded Gritt

• Vishal Dugar1 founding

  CTO and co-founder of Gritt. Robotics and AI expert from CMU Robotics Institute. Previously deployed autonomous trucking fleets and self-piloting aircraft.

  Founded Gritt

• Ken Goldberg1 founding

  Co-founder of Ambi Robotics, UC Berkeley professor and BCNM faculty. Pioneering AI-powered parcel sorting robotics.

  Founded Ambi Robotics

• Salar al Khafaji1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Monumental, the Dutch construction-robotics company building autonomous bricklaying robots; founded the company in 2021.

  Founded Monumental

• Sebastiaan Visser1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Monumental, the autonomous-bricklaying robotics company.

  Founded Monumental

• Han Ji-hyeong1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Autonomous A2Z. Former Hyundai Motor Group autonomous driving engineer. Founded Autonomous A2Z in 2018 with three colleagues from Hyundai ...

  Founded Autonomous A2Z

• Heo Myeong-seon1 founding

  Co-founder and Executive Director at Autonomous A2Z. Overall management of autonomous driving fusion technology development.

  Founded Autonomous A2Z

• Dean Jones1 founding

  CEO and founder of StirlingX, a sovereign data intelligence company working across critical national infrastructure and defence. Its use cases range from survey...

  Founded StirlingX

• Jean-Philippe Jobin1 founding

  Co-founder & CTO of Robotiq, leading engineering for adaptive robotic grippers and end-of-arm tooling.

  Founded Robotiq

• Samuel Bouchard1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Robotiq, Canadian collaborative robot gripper and sensor company.

  Founded Robotiq

• Samuel Bouchard1 founding

  Co-founder & CEO of Robotiq, building it into a leading provider of collaborative robot accessories and gripper technology.

  Founded Robotiq

• Alex Wyatt1 founding

  Founder and CEO of August Robotics, established in 2017, with Greek family roots from Kastellorizo.

  Founded August Robotics

• Eric Carreel1 founding

  Co-founder and Chairman of Withings; a serial French hardware entrepreneur (Inventel, Sculpteo).

  Founded Withings

• Fangzhou Hong1 founding

  NTU Singapore alumnus and co-founder of Ropedia, serving as CTO.

  Founded Ropedia

• John Goodson1 founding

  CEO of Darkhive, a San Antonio company founded in 2021 that develops affordable, U.S.-manufactured uncrewed systems with open hardware and software interfaces.

  Founded Darkhive

• Josh Merel1 founding

  Robot locomotion expert and former Google DeepMind researcher; co-authored Nature paper on AI-powered virtual rat. Previously worked at CTRL-labs, which was acq...

  Founded Fauna Robotics

• Rob Cochran1 founding

  Former CTRL-labs and Goldman Sachs executive; co-founded Fauna Robotics in 2024 to build approachable humanoid robots for human spaces.

  Founded Fauna Robotics

• Tomer Tzach1 founding

  CEO of CropX Technologies, leading the Israeli agtech company's mission to be the global leader in extracting soil insights for precision irrigation.

  Founded CropX

• Vegard Evjen Hovstein1 founding

  Founder of Maritime Robotics, a Norwegian company developing unmanned surface vessels and aerial drones for maritime applications.

  Founded Maritime Robotics

• Zhaoxi Chen1 founding

  NTU Singapore alumnus and co-founder of Ropedia, leading the company as CEO.

  Founded Ropedia

• Ziwei Liu1 founding

  Associate Professor at NTU Singapore and co-founder of Ropedia, serving as Chief Scientist.

  Founded Ropedia

• Ahmad Shadid1 founding

  Founded io.net

• Cedric Hutchings1 founding

  Co-founder of Withings and its CEO (2008-2016); later VP Digital Health at Nokia; now co-founder and CEO of Outsight.

  Founded Withings

• Dr. Zhang Tianlei1 founding

  Founder, Chairman and CEO of Trunk Technology (Trunk.Tech), a Beijing-based L4 autonomous driving truck company founded in 2017. He holds a PhD from the Departm...

  Founded Trunk.Tech

• Fred Potter1 founding

  Co-founder and former CTO of Withings (hardware / product engineering).

  Founded Withings

• Ingo Seebach1 founding

  Founder of Dedrone, established the counter-drone company in 2014. Led the company through multiple funding rounds and its acquisition by Axon in 2024.

  Founded Dedrone

• Jonathan Yaney1 founding

  Founder of SpinLaunch (2014); CEO until May 2024.

  Founded SpinLaunch

• Thorsten Zander1 founding

  Thorsten O. Zander is co-founder of Zander Labs, a German-Dutch company working on passive brain-computer interfaces (pBCI) and neuroadaptive technology, and a ...

  Founded Zander Labs

• Zhao Ming1 founding

  Zhao Ming is CEO and representative of Shanghai YOGO Robot, founded in January 2016, which develops and operates autonomous robots for indoor deliveries and oth...

  Founded YOGO Robot

• Sean O'Connor1 founding

  CEO of 4AG Robotics, a Canadian ag-robotics company (Salmon Arm, British Columbia) developing autonomous mushroom harvesting robots that retrofit into existing ...

  Founded 4AG Robotics

• Hu Xinyi1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Boonray Technology, launched the company in July 2015 with former members of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University Intelligent Robotics Laborator...

  Founded Boonray Technology

• Luc Piguet1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of ClearSpace SA (2018), an EPFL spinout specializing in active space debris removal. Leads ClearSpace-1, the first ESA-contracted mission to...

  Founded ClearSpace

• Yangyang Yang1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Boonray Technology, PhD in Robotics from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. First Prize in Shanghai robotics competitions. Leads Boonray's aut...

  Founded Boonray Technology

• Greg Galvin1 founding

  Co-founder and former President & CEO of Kionix. Cornell M.S. '82, Ph.D. '84, MBA '93. Founded Kionix in 1993 with Tim Davis to commercialize MEMS fabrication t...

  Founded Kionix (ROHM)

• Tim Davis1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Technical Officer of Kionix. Cornell Ph.D. '93 in materials science. Co-founded Kionix in 1993 with Greg Galvin to commercialize MEMS fabri...

  Founded Kionix (ROHM)

• Andrew Bate1 founding

  Andrew Bate is co-founder and CEO of SwarmFarm Robotics. He and his wife Jocie founded the company in 2012 near Emerald, Queensland, to create robotic technolog...

  Founded SwarmFarm Robotics

• Daniel Bock1 founding

  Co-Founder, CTO, and Managing Director of Morpheus Space, a German company developing modular electric propulsion systems for satellite mobility. Bock co-founde...

  Founded Morpheus Space

• Joe Wolfel1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Terradepth. Leading the development of autonomous ocean-mapping submersibles.

  Founded Terradepth

• Judson Kauffman1 founding

  Co-founder of Terradepth.

  Founded Terradepth

• Liu Yao1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Kepler Robotics (founded 2022), a Chinese humanoid robot company. Previously at DJI. Building humanoid robots for logistics and industrial...

  Founded Kepler Robotics

• Lu Ouyang1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Anycubic. Childhood friend of co-founder Dr. James Ouyang. Founded Anycubic in 2015 in Shenzhen.

  Founded Anycubic

• Matej Cernosek1 founding

  Co-founder & CEO of Andrenam. California-based maritime technology startup building AI-powered undersea sensing networks. 8M Series A funding.

  Founded Andrenam

• Zhang Zhengtao1 founding

  Founder of CASBOT, a Chinese robotics company developing humanoid robots.

  Founded CASBOT

• Debo Hu1 founding

  Co-founder and former CEO of Kepler Robotics (Shanghai Kepler Robot Co., Ltd.), founded in 2023 with Yang Hua. He oversaw business operations during the company...

  Founded Kepler Robotics

• Saman Farid1 founding

  CEO and founder of Formic, providing robotics-as-a-service to mid-market manufacturers. Has raised over 0M in funding.

  Founded Formic

• Nadav Bocher1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Greeneye Technology (founded 2017), the AI precision targeted-spraying company; began working on pesticide overuse while serving as a comb...

  Founded Greeneye Technology

• Nic Radford1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Persona AI. Building purpose-built industrial humanoid robots for shipyards and heavy industry.

  Founded Persona AI

• JD Ambati1 founding

  Founder of EverestLabs (Jagadeesh Ambati), an AI and robotics company automating material recovery facilities via the RecycleOS platform. Over 20 years of exper...

  Founded EverestLabs

• Bibhrajit Halder1 founding

  Founder and CEO of SafeAI, the autonomous mining/construction retrofit company (acquired by Pronto); previously worked on autonomy at Apple, Caterpillar, and Fo...

  Founded SafeAI

• Taras Wankewycz1 founding

  Founder & CEO of H3 Dynamics. 20+ years in the hydrogen sector, leading the company's mission to make hydrogen-electric aviation possible step by step.

  Founded H3 Dynamics

• Alex Kroll1 founding

  Former US Air Force test pilot with over 3,500 flight hours; co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of [Grid Aero](/companies/grid-aero). Brings extensive operat...

  Founded Grid Aero

• Ambarish Mitra1 founding

  Co-Founder of Greyparrot. Serial tech entrepreneur with decades of experience scaling AI systems globally.

  Founded Greyparrot

• Arthur Dubois1 founding

  Aerospace engineer and startup leader; co-founder and CEO of [Grid Aero](/companies/grid-aero). Stanford-trained, formerly scaled engineering at Joby Aviation a...

  Founded Grid Aero

• Brandon Florian1 founding

  Aerospace and defense executive; Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) of [Grid Aero](/companies/grid-aero). Previously led business development at Northrop Grumman, S...

  Founded Grid Aero

• Chinmay Patel1 founding

  Aerospace engineer and flight test director; CTO and co-founder of [Grid Aero](/companies/grid-aero). Deep expertise across uncrewed systems, piloted aircraft, ...

  Founded Grid Aero

• Mikela Druckman1 founding

  CEO and Co-Founder of Greyparrot, leading the company since 2019. Drives the vision of digitizing the waste value chain with AI.

  Founded Greyparrot

• Nikola Sivacki1 founding

  Co-Founder and Head of Deep Learning at Greyparrot. Leads the AI/ML engineering behind the waste recognition models.

  Founded Greyparrot

• Charlie Wu1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Orchard Robotics, a San Francisco-based AgTech startup building camera-and-AI systems for precision fruit farming. Inspired by his grandparen...

  Founded Orchard Robotics

• Nikunj Parashar1 founding

  Founder of Sagar Defence Engineering, developing unmanned surface vessels for the Indian Navy and commercial applications. Partnered with Liquid Robotics for US...

  Founded Sagar Defence Engineering

• Mridul Babbar1 founding

  Co-founder of Sagar Defence Engineering. National Award winner and NASA awardee developing unmanned systems for maritime defence applications.

  Founded Sagar Defence Engineering

• Andreas Forsland1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Cognixion, the Assisted Reality company developing non-invasive brain-computer interfaces. Based in Santa Barbara, California and Toronto, On...

  Founded Cognixion

• Anukool Lakhina1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of BurnBot, maker of remotely operated prescribed-burn and vegetation-management robots; previously founded big-data analytics firm Guavus. P...

  Founded BurnBot

• Dan Siroker1 founding

  Founder of Limitless, a technology company; previously co-founder of Optimizely, bringing software optimization expertise.

  Founded Limitless

• Rodion Shishkov1 founding

  CEO & Co-founder of All3. Heavy-duty construction robotics. 5M seed round led by RTP Global.

  Founded All3

• Susan Graham1 founding

  Biomedical engineer (University of Oxford); co-founder and CEO of Dendra Systems, the drone-based ecosystem-restoration company.

  Founded Dendra Systems

• Waleed Haddad1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of BurnBot, the wildfire-prevention robotics company behind the RX prescribed-burn machine.

  Founded BurnBot

• YT Jia1 founding

  Founder and Global CEO of Faraday Future. Chinese entrepreneur who founded the company in 2014. Led the company through its EV development phase and subsequent ...

  Founded Faraday Future

• Brett Bejcek1 founding

  Co-founder of Limitless (formerly Rewind AI), an AI wearable memory augmentation startup acquired by Meta in December 2025. Co-founded with Dan Siroker in 2020....

  Founded Limitless

• James English1 founding

  President and CTO of Energid Technologies, co-founder. PhD in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University. Previously held R&D positions at Raytheon and MAK T...

  Founded Energid Technologies

• Lauren Fletcher1 founding

  Engineer and scientist; co-founder of Dendra Systems (originally BioCarbon Engineering); previously spent over 20 years at NASA.

  Founded Dendra Systems

• Shai Magzimof1 founding

  Founder and former CEO of [Phantom Auto](/companies/phantom-auto), a teleoperation / remote-driving startup he co-founded in 2017 and led until the company shut...

  Founded Phantom Auto

• Jens Riegger1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of fruitcore robotics GmbH in Konstanz. Previously worked on robotics research projects before founding the company in 2017.

  Founded Fruitcore Robotics

• Manuel Frey1 founding

  Co-founder of fruitcore robotics GmbH. Worked with Jens Riegger on robotics research before starting the company in 2017.

  Founded Fruitcore Robotics

• Patrick Zimmermann1 founding

  Co-founder and CFO of fruitcore robotics GmbH, responsible for finance and business development.

  Founded Fruitcore Robotics

• Tim Schmiedl1 founding

  Co-founder of fruitcore robotics GmbH.

  Founded Fruitcore Robotics

• Damon Henry1 founding

  CEO and co-founder of Asylon Robotics, leading robotic perimeter security solutions with drone-in-a-box technology.

  Founded Asylon Robotics

• Eyal Cohen1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Humble Robotics. Career dedicated to building electric and autonomous vehicle technology.

  Founded Humble Robotics

• Pathak1 founding

  Founder of Foundation Future Industries, building the Phantom MK1 humanoid robot for factory and military use. Secured 4M in Pentagon contracts and plans to bui...

  Founded Foundation

• Alex Shashou1 founding

  Co-founder and Co-CEO of 10Beauty. Previously founded ALICE, a B2B hospitality software company.

  Founded 10Beauty

• Justin Effron1 founding

  Co-founder and Co-CEO of 10Beauty. Previously co-founded ALICE with Alex Shashou.

  Founded 10Beauty

• Chen Rosen1 founding

  Co-founder of Air, an Israeli startup developing an eVTOL aircraft for personal air mobility, which he founded with Rani Plaut and Netanel Goldberg. The company...

  Founded AIR

• Farid Kendoul1 founding

  Co-founded Emesent in 2018. CTO. Leading autonomous exploration and drone autonomy R&D.

  Founded Emesent

• Marius Fehr1 founding

  Co-founder of Voliro (2019), the Zurich aerial-robotics company behind the Voliro T contact-inspection drone.

  Founded Voliro

• Mina Kamel1 founding

  Co-founder of Voliro (2019), the ETH Zurich spin-off making omnidirectional aerial NDT inspection drones; came from ETH's Autonomous Systems Lab.

  Founded Voliro

• Netanel Goldberg1 founding

  Netanel Goldberg is a co-founder of Air, an Israeli startup developing an eVTOL aircraft for personal air mobility, alongside Chen Rosen and Rani Plaut.

  Founded AIR

• Rani Plaut1 founding

  Rani Plaut is CEO and co-founder of Air, which is developing the Air One, a two-seat personal eVTOL aircraft.

  Founded AIR

• Stefan Hrabar1 founding

  Stefan Hrabar co-founded Emesent with Farid Kendoul in late 2018, after both worked as researchers in the Robotics and Autonomous Systems Group at CSIRO's Data6...

  Founded Emesent

• Robin Woodby1 founding

  Co-Founder & CTO of FarmX, building IoT and autonomous systems for agriculture since the company's founding. Previously served as VP of Software Engineering at ...

  Founded FarmX

• Anjali Jindal Naik1 founding

  Co-founder and COO of Cartken; previously co-founded Saavn (acquired by Reliance Jio) and was a product operations manager at Google. BS from UNC Chapel Hill.

  Founded Cartken

• Christian Bersch1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Cartken; previously a product manager at Google (and team lead of Area 120 Robotics) and a research engineer at Bosch. MSc from KIT.

  Founded Cartken

• Jake Stelman1 founding

  Co-founder and VP at Cartken; previously a hardware engineer at Google[x] (Aquila UAV) and Google ATAP, and a software engineer at Facebook. BS in Mechanical En...

  Founded Cartken

• Jonas Witt1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Cartken; previously tech lead of Google's Bookbot (Area 120) and a senior engineer at Google[x] and Bosch. PhD in computer vision from Ham...

  Founded Cartken

• Stacy Stephens1 founding

  Co-founded Knightscope in 2013 and serves as President; previously senior leadership in semiconductor industry and at Hyundai.

  Founded Knightscope

• William Santana Li1 founding

  William Santana Li has been Chairman and CEO of Knightscope since April 2013. He held business and technical positions at Ford Motor Company from 1990 to 1999 a...

  Founded Knightscope

• Jaisimha Rao1 founding

  Founder of Niqo Robotics, which applies AI to farming. A former BlackRock trader who managed billions during the 2008 financial crisis, he left Wall Street to p...

  Founded Niqo Robotics

• Alon Mozes1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Neocis (Yomi dental-surgery robot, founded 2009); previously a principal engineer at orthopedic-robotics pioneer MAKO Surgical.

  Founded Neocis

• Basil Weibel1 founding

  Co-founder of Wingtra (founded 2014), the ETH Zurich VTOL-survey-drone spin-off behind the WingtraOne.

  Founded Wingtra

• Juan Salcedo1 founding

  Co-founder of Neocis (Yomi dental-surgery robot); previously a principal engineer at MAKO Surgical.

  Founded Neocis

• Maximilian Boosfeld1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Wingtra (founded 2014 as an ETH Zurich Autonomous Systems Lab spin-off), maker of the WingtraOne VTOL mapping drone.

  Founded Wingtra

• Koichiro Nakamura1 founding

  Co-founder of SEQSENSE, the Tokyo-based autonomous security robot company founded in 2016 as a spinout from Meiji University.

  Founded Seqsense

• Kartik Tiwati1 founding

  Co-founder of Starsky Robotics, an autonomous trucking company that conducted the first driverless freight run on a public highway before shutting down in March...

  Founded Starsky Robotics

• Stefan Seltz-Axmacher1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Starsky Robotics, an autonomous trucking company that conducted the first driverless freight run on a public highway before shutting down ...

  Founded Starsky Robotics

• Koichi Tsukamoto1 founding

  Executive Officer and Vice President of Product at [Connected Robotics](/companies/connected-robotics), leading software platform development since 2019. Previo...

  Founded Connected Robotics

• Taiki Sato1 founding

  Chief Operating Officer of [Connected Robotics](/companies/connected-robotics) since 2017 and a director of the company. Met founder Tetsuya Sawanobori at "Shid...

  Founded Connected Robotics

• Tetsuya Sawanobori1 founding

  Founder and CEO of [Connected Robotics](/companies/connected-robotics), a Tokyo-based startup building AI-powered cooking robots for restaurants and food factor...

  Founded Connected Robotics

• Vanessa Clark1 founding

  Co-founded Atomos Space in 2018; led the company as CEO through its first orbital demonstration mission and its acquisition by Katalyst Space Technologies in Ma...

  Founded Atomos Space

• Austin Link1 founding

  Co-founder of Starfish Space (2019). Former Blue Origin engineer. Co-leads the development of the Otter spacecraft for autonomous satellite rendezvous and docki...

  Founded Starfish Space

• Eugene Zasoba1 founding

  Co-founder of Somatic, developing autonomous bathroom cleaning robots for commercial buildings.

  Founded Somatic

• Michael Levy1 founding

  CEO and co-founder of Somatic, developing autonomous bathroom cleaning robots for commercial buildings. Previously held leadership roles in tech.

  Founded Somatic

• Trevor Bennett1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Starfish Space (2019). Former Blue Origin engineer. Leads technical development of the Otter servicing spacecraft and docking mechanisms. ...

  Founded Starfish Space

• Brady Knight1 founding

  MIT mechanical engineering graduate (Class of 2016) and co-founder of Spyce, the robotic kitchen startup that pioneered automated wok-based cooking. A former MI...

  Founded Spyce (Infinite Kitchen)

• Kale Rogers1 founding

  Co-founder of Spyce (Infinite Kitchen) and MIT '16 mechanical engineering graduate. Co-founded the robotic kitchen startup with fellow MIT fraternity brothers B...

  Founded Spyce (Infinite Kitchen)

• Luke Schlueter1 founding

  Co-founder of Spyce (Infinite Kitchen) and MIT '16 mechanical engineering graduate. Co-founded the robotic kitchen startup with fellow MIT fraternity brothers t...

  Founded Spyce (Infinite Kitchen)

• Michael Farid1 founding

  MIT mechanical engineering graduate (BS 2014, SM 2016) and co-founder & CEO of Spyce, the robotic kitchen startup. Farid conceived the idea of automating meal p...

  Founded Spyce (Infinite Kitchen)

• David Lamont1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Square Robot, the Boston-based company building autonomous submersible robots for in-service aboveground storage-tank inspection.

  Founded Square Robot

• Eric Levitt1 founding

  Co-founder of Square Robot and former Bluefin Robotics executive. Founded Square Robot in 2016 alongside Jerome Vaganay and William O'Halloran to provide roboti...

  Founded Square Robot

• Jerome Vaganay1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Square Robot. Former Director of Inspection Systems at Bluefin Robotics, hired in 2001 as an underwater navigation specialist. Holds a doc...

  Founded Square Robot

• William O'Halloran1 founding

  Founder of Square Robot and former Director of User Experience at Bluefin Robotics, where he oversaw all trials, testing, and operations. Founded Square Robot i...

  Founded Square Robot

• Andrew Ashur1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Lucid Bots, a Y Combinator-backed company building modular AI-powered drones and robots for exterior cleaning. Named fastest-growing robotics...

  Founded Lucid Bots

• Charles DuHadway1 founding

  Co-founder of Fox Robotics, the autonomous-forklift company acquired by Symbotic.

  Founded Fox Robotics

• Eric Adamson1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Tortuga AgTech (founded 2017 with Tim Brackbill), maker of precision strawberry and table-grape harvesting robots; a Stanford engineer wit...

  Founded Tortuga AgTech

• Fred Parietti1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Multiply Labs. Founded in 2016 with the intuition that robotic manufacturing can fulfill personalized medicine.

  Founded Multiply Labs

• Palaniswamy Rajan1 founding

  Co-founder, Chairman, and CEO of SoftWear Automation, the SEWBOT garment-robotics company founded in 2012 by Georgia Tech scientists.

  Founded SoftWear Automation

• Paul Travers1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Vuzix, leading the optical technology and AR smart glasses company for 25+ years. Partnering with Quanta Computer for AI-powered smart glasse...

  Founded Vuzix

• Peter Anderson-Sprecher1 founding

  Co-founder of Fox Robotics, maker of the FoxBot autonomous forklift / trailer loader-unloader (acquired by Symbotic).

  Founded Fox Robotics

• Saurabh Chandra1 founding

  CEO and founder of ATI Motors, developing autonomous mobile robots for factories and warehouses. Also announced the Sherpa Mecha manufacturing humanoid.

  Founded Ati Motors

• David Rabin MD PhD1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer Apollo Neuroscience; psychiatrist and neuroscientist; researched touch therapy for stress reduction.

  Founded Apollo Neuroscience

• Greg Siegle PhD1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer Apollo Neuroscience; University of Pittsburgh professor; researched vibroacoustic therapy for sleep and stress.

  Founded Apollo Neuroscience

• Tim Brackbill1 founding

  Co-founder of Tortuga AgTech (founded 2017), the precision fruit-harvesting robotics company acquired by Oishii.

  Founded Tortuga AgTech

• Andriy Mulyar1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Nomic AI (founded 2022), building accessible AI tools including GPT4All and Nomic Embed. Previously a Ph.D. student at NYU Courant Institu...

  Founded Nomic AI

• Brandon Duderstadt1 founding

  Co-founder of Nomic AI (founded 2022). Johns Hopkins Engr '18,'19 (MSE) graduate in applied mathematics and biomedical engineering.

  Founded Nomic AI

• Kenny Lee1 founding

  CEO and co-founder of Aigen, developing solar-powered autonomous agricultural robots for chemical-free farming.

  Founded Aigen

• Rich Wurden1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Aigen, developing autonomous agricultural robots.

  Founded Aigen

• Jacob Robinson1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of [Motif Neurotech](/companies/motif-neurotech), a Houston-based therapeutic brain-computer-interface company developing an implantable BCI ...

  Founded Motif Neurotech

• Sameer Sheth1 founding

  Co-founder of Motif Neurotech, a Houston-based therapeutic brain-computer interface company developing the Motif XCS System for treatment-resistant depression. ...

  Founded Motif Neurotech

• Wang Yongkun1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Standard Robots (founded 2016). Started the company with four alumni from Harbin Institute of Technology in a 12sqm space in the HIT Entre...

  Founded Standard Robots

• Josh Liu1 founding

  Co-founder & CTO of [Queue](/companies/queue), the world's first fully autonomous robotic pharmacy. Josh Liu previously worked at Tesla, Waymo, and Zipline, bri...

  Founded Queue

• Nick Desai1 founding

  Co-founder & CEO of [Queue](/companies/queue), the world's first fully autonomous robotic pharmacy. A six-time VC-funded entrepreneur in AI, robotics, and healt...

  Founded Queue

• Elvis Nava1 founding

  Co-founder of mimic. He earned a PhD in machine learning at the ETH AI Center, ETH Zurich.

  Founded Mimic Robotics

• Stefan Weirich1 founding

  Stefan Weirich is co-founder and CEO of Mimic Robotics, founded in 2024 as a spin-off from ETH Zurich. The company builds AI-driven dexterous robotic hands that...

  Founded Mimic Robotics

• Stephan-Daniel Gravert1 founding

  Stephan-Daniel Gravert is co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Mimic Robotics, an ETH Zurich spin-off founded in 2024. The company pairs AI-driven dexterous ...

  Founded Mimic Robotics

• Former EVP Aldebaran Robotics1 founding

  Former EVP at Aldebaran Robotics (now part of United Robotics Group), contributing to the development of the Nao humanoid robot.

  Founded Enchanted Tools

• Forrest Iandola1 founding

  American computer scientist specializing in efficient AI. He earned his PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley in 2016, advised by ...

  Founded DeepScale (Tesla)

• Jackie Wu1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Corvus Robotics (founded 2017), maker of the Corvus One fully autonomous warehouse inventory drone.

  Founded Corvus

• Kurt Keutzer1 founding

  Professor of the Graduate School in EECS at UC Berkeley and IEEE Fellow, conducting research in the Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) lab. His research focuses on mak...

  Founded DeepScale (Tesla)

• Mohammed Kabir1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Corvus Robotics (founded 2017), the autonomous warehouse inventory-drone company.

  Founded Corvus

• Craig Rupp1 founding

  CEO of Sabanto, an agricultural robotics company developing autonomous tractor systems for farming.

  Founded Sabanto

• Daudi Barnes1 founding

  Founder of Agile Space Industries, establishing the company in 2009 as Advanced Mobile Propulsion Test (AMPT) in Durango, Colorado. Began his career as a propul...

  Founded Agile Space Industries

• Dylan Ng Terntzer1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of LionsBot International, the Singapore-based commercial cleaning robotics company founded in 2018.

  Founded LionsBot

• Lior Wolf1 founding

  CEO and co-founder of Mentee Robotics (MenteeBot); a Tel Aviv University professor who was previously a research scientist and director at Facebook AI Research.

  Founded Mentee Robotics

• Park Kwang-hoon1 founding

  Park Kwang-hoon is the CEO and founder of P&S Mechanics (rebranded P&S Robotics in June 2025), a Korean medical rehabilitation robotics company he established i...

  Founded P&S Mechanics

• Shai Shalev-Shwartz1 founding

  Co-founder and chief scientist of Mentee Robotics; concurrently CTO of Mobileye and a professor of computer science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

  Founded Mentee Robotics

• Victor Dewulf1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Recycleye. Former Goldman Sachs banker, left to pursue AI-powered waste sorting. Imperial College London alumnus.

  Founded Recycleye

• Harri Valpola1 founding

  Founder and principal scientist of ZenRobotics; pioneered AI-based waste sorting technology based on his research in machine learning and computational neurosci...

  Founded ZenRobotics

• Richard Little1 founding

  Co-founder and former CEO of Rex Bionics. Invented the REX exoskeleton with Robert Irving. Founded the company in 2003 and served as CEO for ten years before st...

  Founded Rex Bionics

• Robert Irving1 founding

  Co-founder of Rex Bionics. Co-invented the REX exoskeleton with Richard Little in 2003, motivated by personal familiarity with wheelchair use complications.

  Founded Rex Bionics

• Tuomas Lukka1 founding

  Co-founder of ZenRobotics and software architect behind the ZenRobotics Recycler platform.

  Founded ZenRobotics

• Li Chang1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Oasa, a Chinese robotic lawn mower startup founded in 2022. A former founding member of home robotics brand Narwal, Li led Oasa to develop th...

  Founded Oasa

• Areeb Malik1 founding

  Co-founder of Glacier, the AI recycling-robotics company; previously a software engineer at Facebook.

  Founded Glacier

• Cayden Pierce1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Mentra, building an open-source OS for smart glasses. Previously built smart glasses prototypes with the developer community.

  Founded Mentra

• Karl Watfern1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Hullbot, the autonomous hull-cleaning robotics company.

  Founded Hullbot

• Patrick Thevoz1 founding

  CEO and co-founder of Flyability, the leading indoor inspection drone company. Led the company to become the standard for remotely inspecting confined spaces in...

  Founded Flyability

• Rebecca Hu1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Glacier, the AI recycling-robotics company; previously at Bain & Company.

  Founded Glacier

• Tom Loefler1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Hullbot, the Australian autonomous underwater hull-cleaning robotics company.

  Founded Hullbot

• Deepak Sekar1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Chowbotics (2014–2019), inventor with 125+ patents, creator of Sally the salad robot. Previously served as Director of Product Management at ...

  Founded Chowbotics Sally

• Fareed Aljawhari1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Micropolis Robotics in Dubai, developing autonomous patrol and security robots in collaboration with Dubai Police and government entities.

  Founded Micropolis Robotics

• Alexander Fink1 founding

  President and US CEO of Swarmer (NASDAQ: SWMR), building AI-driven autonomous drone swarm software that enables a single operator to coordinate 100+ drones simu...

  Founded Swarmer

• Amit Moran1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Indoor Robotics, developing autonomous indoor drones for safety and security monitoring.

  Founded Indoor Robotics

• Beth Flippo1 founding

  Founder and CEO of DEXA (Drone Express). Embedded software developer with a background in electronics and computer science. Spun DEXA off from Telegrid, her fam...

  Founded DEXA

• Gary Lai1 founding

  Co-founder of Interlune. Former chief architect at Blue Origin, where he led design of the New Shepard vehicle.

  Founded Interlune

• Hua-yang Xu1 founding

  Founder and CEO of RobotPlusPlus, leading developer of working-at-height robots for industrial maintenance. PhD in robotics.

  Founded RobotPlusPlus

• Jeremy Searock1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Advanced Construction Robotics, developing autonomous construction robots.

  Founded Advanced Construction Robotics

• Jeremy Suard1 founding

  Founder and CEO Advanced Construction Robotics (2016-); former construction engineer; created Tybot autonomous rebar-tying robot.

  Founded Advanced Construction Robotics

• Michael Johnson1 founding

  Founded Sea Machines Robotics in 2016 and serves as CEO; previously held executive roles in the maritime industry including at Huntington Ingalls Industries.

  Founded Sea Machines Robotics

• Peter Beck1 founding

  Peter Beck is the founder, CEO and CTO of Rocket Lab, an aerospace manufacturer and launch service provider. A New Zealander from Invercargill, he started the c...

  Founded Rocket Lab USA

• Rob Meyerson1 founding

  Co-founder of Interlune. Former president of Blue Origin (2013-2017). Aerospace executive with decades of experience in commercial space.

  Founded Interlune

• Suhas Banshiwala1 founding

  Co-founder and Director of Aereo.

  Founded Aereo

• Vipul Singh1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Aereo. Also co-founder and elected chairperson of the Drone Federation of India.

  Founded Aereo

• Zhao Chaohui1 founding

  CEO and founder of Youibot Robotics, PhD from Xi'an Jiaotong University. Leading the Shenzhen-based AMR company with funding from SoftBank Ventures Asia.

  Founded Youibot Robotics

• Ankit Kumar1 founding

  Founder and CEO of [Skye Air Mobility](/companies/skye-air-mobility), India's largest hyperlocal drone delivery platform. Founded the Gurugram-based company in ...

  Founded Skye Air Mobility

• Ayman Sawaf1 founding

  Founder of HIVE, a blockchain and Web3 infrastructure company.

  Founded HIVE

• Chandra Prakash1 founding

  Co-founder of [Skye Air Mobility](/companies/skye-air-mobility), India's largest hyperlocal drone delivery platform based in Gurugram. Co-founded the company in...

  Founded Skye Air Mobility

• George E. Bye1 founding

  Aerospace entrepreneur, USAF veteran pilot, and engineer who founded Bye Aerospace in 2007 and served as CEO until May 2024, when he transitioned to Chairman an...

  Founded Bye Aerospace

• Grace Brown1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Andromeda Robotics, an Australian deep-tech company developing emotionally intelligent humanoid robots. Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree and cre...

  Founded Andromeda Robotics

• Harrison Schmitt1 founding

  Co-founder of Interlune. Apollo 17 astronaut and geologist — the last human to walk on the Moon. Former U.S. Senator from New Mexico.

  Founded Interlune

• Shrikant Sarda1 founding

  Co-founder and board member of [Skye Air Mobility](/companies/skye-air-mobility), India's largest hyperlocal drone delivery platform based in Gurugram. Has been...

  Founded Skye Air Mobility

• Tyler Niday1 founding

  CEO of Bonsai Robotics, leading the AI-powered agriculture robotics company. Unveiled the Amiga Flex platform at FIRA 2025.

  Founded Bonsai Robotics

• Ugur Oezdemir1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Bonsai Robotics (2022).

  Founded Bonsai Robotics

• Xiqing Jia1 founding

  Founder and CEO of ZeroErr.

  Founded ZeroErr

• Maitrai Maka1 founding

  Naval architect and founder of Rekise Marine with over a decade of experience in marine robotic systems. Leads the company's full-stack approach to autonomous v...

  Founded Rekise Marine

• Shekhar Mital1 founding

  Rear Admiral (Retd), former Chairman and Managing Director of Goa Shipyard Limited and former Director General of the Submarine Design Group. Oversees shipbuild...

  Founded Rekise Marine

• Barney Wragg1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Karakuri. Previously worked at ARM alongside co-founder Simon Watt. Announced the company's wind-down in June 2023 via LinkedIn.

  Founded Karakuri

• Simon Watt1 founding

  Co-founder of Karakuri. Previously worked at ARM with co-founder Barney Wragg.

  Founded Karakuri

• Mark Oleynik1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Moley Robotics, creator of the world's first fully-automated robotic kitchen. Russian and British mathematician, computer scientist, and entr...

  Founded Moley Robotics

• Shawn McLaughlin1 founding

  Co-Founder and Board Member of Luxonis, an embedded computer vision company.

  Founded Luxonis

• Yang Jianbo1 founding

  Founder and CEO of KEYi Technology, a Beijing-based consumer robotics company. Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2017. Mechanical engineer leading 80+ employees building ...

  Founded KEYi Technology

• Alonzo Kelly1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Scientist at Locomation.

  Founded Locomation

• Çetin Meriçli1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Locomation, a Pittsburgh-based autonomous trucking company founded in 2018. A robotics pioneer with 25+ years of experience, formerly Spec...

  Founded Locomation

• Jandon Zhang1 founding

  CEO of iSAGEBOT (Shanghai iSAGE Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd.), a leading solution provider of AI mobile robots founded in 2019. Honored with the 2026 SJTU O...

  Founded iSAGEBOT

• Ji Zhihui1 founding

  Founder and CEO of GENISOM AI (智元机器人), a Beijing-based full-stack embodied intelligence company founded in December 2023. Under his leadership, GENISOM AI has p...

  Founded GENISOM AI

• Michael George1 founding

  Co-founder and VP of Engineering at Locomation.

  Founded Locomation

• Tekin Meriçli1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Locomation, a Pittsburgh-based autonomous trucking startup. Tekin Meriçli earned his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Boğaziçi Universit...

  Founded Locomation

• Venkat Rajagopalan1 founding

  Co-founder and VP of Product at Locomation.

  Founded Locomation

• Zuo Yuyu1 founding

  Founder and Chairman of Leader Harmonious Drive Systems Co., Ltd. (Leaderdrive), a Shanghai-listed manufacturer of harmonic reducers for robots. He and his olde...

  Founded Leaderdrive (Leader Harmonious Drive Systems Co., Ltd.)

• Cheon Hong-seok1 founding

  Co-CEO and Co-founder of Twinny. KAIST electrical engineering Ph.D. specializing in autonomous driving robotics. Leads technology and engineering at Twinny.

  Founded Twinny

• Cheon Yeong-seok1 founding

  Co-CEO and Co-founder of Twinny. Business administration background with 8 years at Korea SMEs and Startups Agency. Leads business management and administration...

  Founded Twinny

• Gregor Kolls1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Filics. Leading Munich-based robotics startup building ultra-flat pallet transport AMRs.

  Founded Filics

• Kevin Gibbon1 founding

  3rd-time venture founder. Previously founded Shyp (on-demand shipping, Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies) and Airhouse (fulfillment startup). Shipped 10M...

  Founded Cytronic

• Scott Moen1 founding

  Scott Moen is a co-founder of Cytronic, with Kevin Gibbon, which builds robotics and orchestration software for ecommerce fulfillment.

  Founded Cytronic

• Tom Stevens1 founding

  Tom Stevens founded Tombot in 2017 after his mother's progressive dementia necessitated rehoming her beloved pet dog. He previously built a legal automation sta...

  Founded Tombot

• Bentzion Levinson1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Heven Drones (Heven AeroTech). Former Israeli special forces officer. Founded Heven Drones in 2019 to develop hydrogen-powered UAVs.

  Founded HevenDrones (Heven AeroTech)

• Derckjan Kruit1 founding

  Co-founder of Mendix, established in 2005 in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

  Founded Mendix

• Derek Roos1 founding

  Co-founder and former CEO of Mendix. Led the company through its acquisition by Siemens in 2018 for $730 million.

  Founded Mendix

• Roald Kruit1 founding

  Co-founder of Mendix. A freelance software developer who noticed the communication disconnect between developers and business users, inspiring the visual low-co...

  Founded Mendix

• Vipin Jain1 founding

  Vipin Jain is CEO and co-founder of Blendid, a Bay Area company whose robotic kiosk automates smoothie preparation; Jamba became its first licensing partner.

  Founded Blendid

• Ashish Mohite1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Hyperion Robotics. One of Europe's foremost robotics and 3D-printing experts with a PhD in 3D printing and construction; blends architectu...

  Founded Hyperion Robotics

• Henry Unterreiner1 founding

  Co-founder and Head of Engineering at Hyperion Robotics. A chartered structural engineer with over eight years designing and delivering world-class projects at ...

  Founded Hyperion Robotics

• Dimitris Nikolaidis1 founding

  Co-founder and COO of Perceptual Robotics, developing autonomous wind turbine inspection technology since 2016.

  Founded Perceptual Robotics

• Kevin Driscoll-Lind1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Perceptual Robotics, developing autonomous drone inspection systems for wind turbines since 2016.

  Founded Perceptual Robotics

• Kostas Karachalios1 founding

  Mechanical engineer and co-founder of Perceptual Robotics, developing autonomous drone inspection systems for wind turbines since 2016.

  Founded Perceptual Robotics

• Ilsoo Park1 founding

  South Korean engineer and entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Mars Auto (founded 2017), a Seoul-based company developing camera-based autonomous driving technology...

  Founded Mars Auto

• Tom Yeshurun1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of CIV Robotics, maker of autonomous land-surveying/layout robots (CivDot) for construction and solar sites; came from a road-construction ba...

  Founded Civ Robotics

• Chris Feng1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of [Axis Robotics](/companies/axis-robotics), a Physical AI Data Engine company building training-data infrastructure for robots. Previously ...

  Founded Axis Robotics

• Andrija Feher1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Synapticon. Computer scientist who co-founded the company in 2012. Retains expanded role as CTO ensuring the technology roadmap remains at...

  Founded Synapticon

• Avihou Barkay1 founding

  Co-founder of UNIT AI, a Boston-based physical AI company building modular warehouse robotics for e-commerce fulfillment. Formerly President of Plus One Robotic...

  Founded UNIT AI

• Ghonhee Lee1 founding

  Founder & CEO of Katalyst Space Technologies, a defense-tech company focused on dynamic space operations and in-space servicing, assembly, and manufacturing (IS...

  Founded Katalyst Space Technologies

• Martin Schwarz1 founding

  Co-founder of Synapticon in 2012. Electrical engineer who, together with Nikolai Ensslen and Andrija Feher, discovered the potential of combining electronics, m...

  Founded Synapticon

• Nikolai Ensslen1 founding

  Nikolai Ensslen is a co-founder and former CEO of Synapticon, a German maker of integrated drive and motion technology. He stepped down as CEO at the end of 202...

  Founded Synapticon

• Minas Liarokapis1 founding

  CEO of Acumino, a robotics company developing assistive robotic arms for industrial and domestic applications.

  Founded Acumino

• Abhinav Agarwal1 founding

  Co-Founder and CTO of Clair Health, developing the first noninvasive wrist wearable for women that continuously monitors hormones. Stanford Computer Science alu...

  Founded Clair Health

• Jenny Duan1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Clair Health, a women's health technology company. Stanford University alumna; founded Clair Health at age 21 focusing on women's health a...

  Founded Clair Health

• Samer Al Moubayed1 founding

  CEO and co-founder of Furhat Robotics (founded 2014, Stockholm). PhD in Computer Science from KTH Royal Institute of Technology; Masters in Global Management fr...

  Founded Furhat Robotics

• Mads Bendt1 founding

  CEO and co-founder of Capra Robotics, Danish autonomous mobile robot company.

  Founded Capra Robotics

• Cyrill Hamon1 founding

  Co-founder of PAZZI (originally EKIM) in 2013. Co-created the autonomous robotic pizza kitchen technology.

  Founded PAZZI

• Sébastien Roverso1 founding

  French entrepreneur and roboticist; co-founder of [PAZZI](/companies/pazzi) (originally EKIM) in 2013 alongside Cyrill Hamon. Developed the world's first autono...

  Founded PAZZI

• Alban Deruaz-Pepin1 founding

  Co-founder of Donecle.

  Founded Donecle

• Caroline Walerud1 founding

  Founder and CEO of AirForestry (registered 2020), a Swedish startup developing autonomous electric drones that thin forests from the air.

  Founded AirForestry

• Cyrille Kabbara1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Shark Robotics, the French maker of the Colossus firefighting and defense ground robot.

  Founded Shark Robotics

• David Hansen1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Westmag. Previously led motor supply-chain work at Weel with years of direct Chinese BLDC sourcing experience. University of Washington gr...

  Founded Westmag

• Jack Xu1 founding

  Co-founder of Proception. University of Waterloo TRON alum, previously at Atlassian. YC W25 batch.

  Founded Proception

• Jay Li1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Proception. Former technical lead on Tesla's Optimus humanoid robot program. Tesla sued Li in June 2025 alleging trade secret theft; the c...

  Founded Proception

• Joe Harris1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Alloy Robotics. Former Chief Commercial Officer at Eucalyptus, the Sydney telehealth company acquired by Hims & Hers in a deal valued at over...

  Founded Alloy Robotics

• Jordan Sanders1 founding

  Co-founder and COO of Westmag. Previously spent a decade in robotics with commercial leadership experience at Slip Robotics. Furman University graduate.

  Founded Westmag

• Josselin Bequet1 founding

  Co-founder of Donecle.

  Founded Donecle

• Matthieu Claybrough1 founding

  CEO of Donecle.

  Founded Donecle

• Mauritz Andersson1 founding

  Co-founder of AirForestry and a physicist; brought a research background in quantum optics and optical-systems engineering to the company's forestry drones.

  Founded AirForestry

• Olle Gelin1 founding

  Co-founder and forestry-technology expert at AirForestry, the Swedish electric-forestry-drone startup.

  Founded AirForestry

• Yann Bruner1 founding

  Co-founder of Donecle.

  Founded Donecle

• Brian Davidson1 founding

  Former DARPA AI Lead, Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence Expert.

  Founded SkyfireAI

• Eric Malawer1 founding

  Co-founder and COO of Echelon AI, an autonomy and swarming AI company for uncrewed aerial systems. In 2024 Echelon acquired Skyfire Consulting, forming the comb...

  Founded SkyfireAI

• Matt Sloane1 founding

  Matt Sloane is CEO and founder of Skyfire, a public safety drone consulting group.

  Founded SkyfireAI

• Heico Sandee1 founding

  Founder and Co-CEO/CTO of Smart Robotics, a Dutch robotics company specializing in AI-driven warehouse automation.

  Founded Smart Robotics

• David King1 founding

  Co-founder and Executive Director of Denvr Dataworks, an AI cloud computing company.

  Founded Denvr Dataworks

• Geoff Gordon1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Denvr Dataworks, an AI cloud infrastructure company.

  Founded Denvr Dataworks

• Jens Vest Warming1 founding

  Founder of FarmDroid, a Danish agricultural robotics company developing autonomous seeding and weeding robots.

  Founded FarmDroid

• Pham Quang Cuong1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Eureka Robotics. Associate Professor of Robotics at NTU (on leave), former JSPS Fellow at UTokyo, PhD in Neuroscience and Robotics.

  Founded Eureka Robotics

• Sneh Vaswani1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Miko, an Indian robotics company building AI-powered companion robots for children. Led the company through Series D funding.

  Founded Miko

• Assaf Chaprak1 founding

  Serial entrepreneur in advanced robotics and manufacturing, focused on building scalable systems for demanding real-world applications.

  Founded Shifters AI

• Ofer Balin1 founding

  CEO and co-founder of Shifters AI, an Israeli deep-tech company building AI-native autonomous ground robotics for defense. Former IDF Colonel with extensive lea...

  Founded Shifters AI

• Ofer Ballin1 founding

  Former Colonel in the IDF with extensive leadership experience in operational adoption of breakthrough technologies. Previously held a business development role...

  Founded Shifters AI

• Brian Jones1 founding

  Co-founder and COO of Deterrence. Previously co-founder of Latch.

  Founded Deterrence

• Dhruva Rajendra1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Deterrence. Previously co-founder of Latch (smart lock company). Building autonomous manufacturing systems for the defense industrial base...

  Founded Deterrence

• Henry Olgers1 founding

  Co-founder and Head of Manufacturing at Deterrence. Previously team lead for 4680 battery cell manufacturing at Tesla.

  Founded Deterrence

• Andrea Thomaz1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Diligent Robotics (founded 2017), maker of Moxi the hospital service robot. Previously Associate Professor of Computer Science at UT Austi...

  Founded Diligent Robotics

• Ashtesh Kumar1 founding

  Co-Founder and CTO of Manastu Space, an Indian space-tech company building green satellite propulsion and space-debris mitigation systems. An IIT Bombay alumnus...

  Founded Manastu Space

• Dan Keene1 founding

  Co-founder and COO of Aseon Labs. Previously co-founded Pushme (acquired by TIER-Dott), served as CBO at Superduper, led 20 markets at Deliveroo, and started in...

  Founded Aseon Labs

• Dr. Leon Alkalai1 founding

  Dr. Leon Alkalai is a 32-year veteran of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), where he served as capture lead for the GRAIL lunar mission and received the NA...

  Founded Sophia Space

• Eric Truitt1 founding

  CEO and co-founder of Mantis Space, a space-power startup building a constellation of satellites that beam laser power to spacecraft in Earth orbit. A U.S. mili...

  Founded Mantis Space

• George Kalligeros1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Aseon Labs. Previously founded Pushme (battery-swap network for micromobility, acquired by TIER-Dott), served as VP Hardware at TIER-Dott,...

  Founded Aseon Labs

• Ido Genosar1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Verobotics (founded 2021), the Israeli maker of AI facade-cleaning/inspection wall-climbing robots.

  Founded Verobotics

• Itay Levitan1 founding

  Co-founder of Verobotics (founded 2021), the building-facade cleaning and inspection robotics company.

  Founded Verobotics

• Matt Delaney1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Marble, a robot delivery company.

  Founded Marble

• Nick Hegeman1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of PaintJet (founded 2020 with Steve Wasilowski), maker of the Bravo robotic exterior-painting system.

  Founded PaintJet

• Rob DeMillo1 founding

  CEO and Co-founder of [Sophia Space](/companies/sophia-space), a company building modular, solar-powered orbital computing infrastructure. He began his career a...

  Founded Sophia Space

• Robert Cohen1 founding

  Founder of PeritasAI, an AI company developing perception and decision systems for autonomous applications.

  Founded PeritasAI

• Steve Wasilowski1 founding

  Co-founder of PaintJet (founded 2020), the robotic exterior-painting company.

  Founded PaintJet

• Tushar Jadhav1 founding

  Co-Founder and CEO of Manastu Space, an Indian space-tech startup developing green satellite propulsion systems and collision-avoidance technology. An IIT Bomba...

  Founded Manastu Space

• Vivian Chu1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Diligent Robotics (founded 2017). Previously PhD researcher at Georgia Tech under Andrea Thomaz. Leads the robotics software and hardware ...

  Founded Diligent Robotics

• Will Jackson1 founding

  CEO of Engineered Arts, a UK-based humanoid robotics company in Penryn, Cornwall. Creator of Ameca, the viral humanoid robot. Founded in 2004. Raised 0M for hum...

  Founded Engineered Arts

• Cheong Jin Xi1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Aonic, a Malaysian drone technology company he established in 2016. A former DJI distributor, Cheong built Aonic into a manufacturer of Made-...

  Founded Aonic

• Jesse Lyu1 founding

  Founder of Rabbit Inc.

  Founded Rabbit Inc

• Martin Roche, MD1 founding

  Orthopedic surgeon and international pioneer in robotic and sensor-assisted knee surgery. Dr. Roche performed the world’s first robotic-assisted partial and tot...

  Founded PeritasAI

• Avi Abadi1 founding

  Israeli inventor and entrepreneur; co-founder of Skyline Robotics (Ozmo window-cleaning robot).

  Founded Skyline Robotics

• Yaron Schwarcz1 founding

  Israeli entrepreneur; co-founder of Skyline Robotics, maker of the Ozmo high-rise window-cleaning robot.

  Founded Skyline Robotics

• Eom Yoon-seol1 founding

  CEO of AeiROBOT, a Korean humanoid robotics startup spun out from Hanyang University ERICA. Leads the company's industrial humanoid robot program including the ...

  Founded AeiROBOT

• Jae Kwon Han1 founding

  Professor of Robotics Engineering at Hanyang University ERICA and founder/CTO of AeiROBOT, which was spun off from the HERoEHS robotics lab. He completed his do...

  Founded AeiROBOT

• Derrick Morse1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Rugged Robotics. Professional Engineer who founded the construction layout automation company after experiencing jobsite pain points firsthan...

  Founded Rugged Robotics

• Michael Zheng1 founding

  Founder and CEO of AUBO Robotics. Led the company from its founding in 2015 to become China's #1 cobot manufacturer and #2 globally by sales volume.

  Founded AUBO Robotics

• Wei Hongxing1 founding

  Founder and Chairman of AUBO (Beijing) Robotics Technology, founded 2015 under China's 863 high-technology research program. Former aerospace researcher. AUBO h...

  Founded AUBO Robotics

• Billy Thalheimer1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of REGENT Craft, developing the Seaglider wing-in-ground-effect electric maritime vehicle. Raised 4.5M, 0B+ order book.

  Founded REGENT Craft

• Brandon Contino1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Four Growers, the Pittsburgh ag-robotics company whose GR-series greenhouse robots autonomously harvest tomatoes and collect crop analytic...

  Founded Four Growers

• Hagai Balshai1 founding

  CEO of RoboTiCan, which develops ground and aerial autonomous robots for security and defense, including counter-drone systems. Before founding the company he m...

  Founded RoboTiCan

• James Robertson1 founding

  Founder of Invert Robotics, a Christchurch, New Zealand company providing remote robotic inspection services for industrial tanks and non-magnetic surfaces.

  Founded Invert Robotics

• Sudhir Srivastava1 founding

  Globally acclaimed robotic cardiac surgeon and founder of SS Innovations. Pioneered robotic telesurgery and aims to make robotic surgery affordable and accessib...

  Founded SS Innovations International

• Yushan Chen1 founding

  CEO and co-founder of Artly Coffee, PhD in computer science from Boston University. Developing AI-powered robotic barista kiosks.

  Founded Artly Coffee

• Matthew Anderson1 founding

  CEO of A&K Robotics, leading development of Cruz autonomous mobility pods for airports and public spaces.

  Founded A&K Robotics

• Mike Smayda1 founding

  CEO and Founder of [Fortastra](/companies/fortastra), a Los Angeles-based space defense startup building autonomous escort satellites to defend critical orbital...

  Founded Fortastra

• Wang Donglin1 founding

  Professor and Chair of Westlake University's Machine Intelligence Laboratory. Founder of Westlake Robotics.

  Founded Westlake Robotics

• Rohan Mehta1 founding

  Founder of BharatBotics.

  Founded BharatBotics

• Conley Oster1 founding

  Co-founder of Raise Robotics (founded 2021), maker of a mobile-manipulator platform with dual UR arms for high-rise facade/curtain-wall installation.

  Founded Raise Robotics

• Gary Chen1 founding

  Gary Chen is Co-Founder and CEO of Raise Robotics. A construction and technology veteran who started the company in 2021 with Conley Oster.

  Founded Raise Robotics

• Johnny Carni1 founding

  Founder and CEO of WaiV Robotics. Previously developed the technology under an R&D entity called Dronelander before launching WaiV Robotics.

  Founded WaiV Robotics

• Sergio Pachon Reyes1 founding

  Co-founder and President of Kiwibot; previously founded the delivery startup Lulo. Industrial Engineering from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana.

  Founded Kiwibot

• Assaf Friedler1 founding

  Co-founder of AgriPass, developing human-inspired AI for adaptive field operations in agriculture.

  Founded AgriPass

• Guy Raz1 founding

  Co-founder of AgriPass, developing human-inspired AI for adaptive field operations in agriculture.

  Founded AgriPass

• Sam Dugan1 founding

  Co-founder of [Upside Robotics](/companies/upside-robotics), a Waterloo, Ontario ag-tech startup building autonomous solar-powered robots for precision fertiliz...

  Founded Upside Robotics

• Jamie France1 founding

  CEO and Founder of Outlier Space, developing space infrastructure technology

  Founded Outlier Space

• Benedek Tasi1 founding

  Co-founder of Allonic. Budapest-based robotics startup. 3D Tissue Braiding platform for automated robotic body manufacturing. .2M raised. Founded 2025.

  Founded Allonic

• David Holló1 founding

  Co-founder of Allonic, a Budapest company developing 3D Tissue Braiding technology for manufacturing robot bodies. He started the company with Benedek Jozsef Ta...

  Founded Allonic

• Dávid Pelyva1 founding

  Co-founder of Allonic, a Budapest company developing 3D Tissue Braiding technology for manufacturing robot bodies. He started the company with Benedek Jozsef Ta...

  Founded Allonic

• Mike Tinmouth1 founding

  Co-founded ACUA Ocean with his brother Neil in 2021; serves as Founder & COO. Innovation mentor to the UK Ministry of Defence since 2019. The ACUA Ocean team br...

  Founded ACUA Ocean

• Puneet Chhabra1 founding

  Co-founder and former CTO of ACUA Ocean, now serving as Technology Advisor to the company. PhD in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the University of ...

  Founded ACUA Ocean

• Chao Cao1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of [Sancho Robotics](/companies/sancho-robotics), building a robotic workforce for advanced manufacturing. Previously a research scientist at...

  Founded Sancho Robotics

• Daniel Koppel1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Prospera Technologies, developing AI computer vision for crop monitoring. Led the company to a 00M acquisition by Valmont Industries.

  Founded Prospera

• Jack Yang1 founding

  Co-founder of [Sancho Robotics](/companies/sancho-robotics), building a robotic workforce for advanced manufacturing. Previously a senior software engineer at [...

  Founded Sancho Robotics

• Jin Ge1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of DexTeleop Robotics (灵御智能). Tsinghua University Department of Automation bachelor and Tsinghua SEM MBA. Former managing partner at Yuanjing...

  Founded DexTeleop Robotics

• Mo Yilin1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Scientist of DexTeleop Robotics (灵御智能). Tenured associate professor in the Department of Automation at Tsinghua University. PhD from Carneg...

  Founded DexTeleop Robotics

• Will Wells1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Hummingbird Technologies, conceived the drone-based crop analytics company during his MBA at INSEAD.

  Founded Hummingbird Technologies

• Hans Lee1 founding

  Co-founder & CTO of Freedom Robotics. Builds the cloud-based Robotics Management Software (RMS) platform.

  Founded Freedom Robotics

• Joshua Wilson1 founding

  Co-founder & CEO of Freedom Robotics. MIT dropout, previously co-founded Tsumobi. Founded Freedom Robotics to build 'AWS for robots' — cloud infrastructure for ...

  Founded Freedom Robotics

• Bo Chen1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Enway, the German maker of autonomous electric sweeping robots.

  Founded Enway

• Hamid Farzaneh1 founding

  Founding Engineer at [Avatar Robotics](/companies/avatar-robotics), working on the company's teleoperated humanoid robot platform. Holds a Ph.D. and contributes...

  Founded Avatar Robotics

• Jaakko Happonen1 founding

  Founder of Trombia Technologies (parent Snowek Oy), the Finnish maker of the Trombia Free autonomous street sweeper.

  Founded Trombia Technologies

• Julian Nordt1 founding

  Co-founder of Enway, the autonomous sweeping-robot company.

  Founded Enway

• Mike Xia1 founding

  Mike Xia is co-founder and CEO of Anvil Robotics, a San Francisco startup that builds custom robots for physical AI teams. He previously co-founded Lumina Indus...

  Founded Anvil Robotics

• Thanuja Ambegoda1 founding

  Co-founder of Enway, the autonomous sweeping-robot company.

  Founded Enway

• Vijay Pradeep1 founding

  Vijay Pradeep is co-founder and CTO of Anvil Robotics, a San Francisco startup that builds custom robots for businesses and describes itself as a hardware, soft...

  Founded Anvil Robotics

• Joel Gibbard1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Open Bionics (founded 2014); a UK roboticist who developed the low-cost, 3D-printed bionic Hero Arm. Appointed MBE.

  Founded Open Bionics

• Samantha Payne1 founding

  Co-founder and COO of Open Bionics (founded 2014), the maker of 3D-printed bionic Hero Arms. Appointed MBE.

  Founded Open Bionics

• Ivor Jarman1 founding

  Co-founder of [Halcyon Robotics](/companies/halcyon-robotics), a San Francisco-based startup building dexterous robot hands for humanoid robots. Listed as Execu...

  Founded Halcyon Robotics

• Jean-Francois Guiderdoni1 founding

  Co-founder of ACWA Robotics. Founded the company in 2018 alongside Jean-Francois Rossi.

  Founded ACWA Robotics

• Jean-Francois Rossi1 founding

  Co-founder of Acwa Robotics, which he created in 2018 with Jean-Francois Guiderdoni. The company, based near Aix-en-Provence, builds robots that travel inside d...

  Founded ACWA Robotics

• Oliver Stark1 founding

  Founder and CEO of [Halcyon Robotics](/companies/halcyon-robotics), a San Francisco-based startup building dexterous robot hands for the humanoid robotics indus...

  Founded Halcyon Robotics

• Abhinav Warrier1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Rightbot Technologies. Previously worked at GreyOrange.

  Founded Rightbot

• Anurag Dutta1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Rightbot Technologies. Former consultant at Kearney.

  Founded Rightbot

• Dhanush Radhakrishnan1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Clone Robotics. Building biomimetic musculoskeletal androids using synthetic muscles.

  Founded Clone Robotics

• Ivan Pisarenko1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Clone Robotics (founded 2021), Warsaw, Poland. Clone is building Torso, a humanoid upper-body platform with tendon-driven actuators designed ...

  Founded Clone Robotics

• Shane Farritor1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Virtual Incision (formed 2006); a University of Nebraska-Lincoln engineering professor who co-developed the MIRA miniaturized surgical rob...

  Founded Virtual Incision

• Dmitry Oleynikov1 founding

  Co-founder of Virtual Incision (formed 2006); a surgeon (formerly University of Nebraska Medical Center) who co-developed the MIRA miniaturized in-vivo surgical...

  Founded Virtual Incision

• Adam Stager1 founding

  Founder and CEO of TRIC Robotics (founded 2017); PhD in mechanical engineering from the University of Delaware.

  Founded TRIC Robotics

• Anthony Tayoun1 founding

  Co-founder and CFO of Dexai Robotics. Co-founded the company alongside CEO David Johnson to commercialize culinary robotics for food service labor shortage solu...

  Founded Dexai Robotics

• David M.S. Johnson1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Dexai Robotics, maker of Alfred, a culinary robot for commercial kitchens. Previously spent seven years at the Charles Stark Draper Labora...

  Founded Dexai Robotics

• Agnishwar Jayaprakash1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Garuda Aerospace.

  Founded Garuda Aerospace

• Armin Koller1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of KEMARO, leading the Swiss robotics company founded in 2016 in autonomous industrial cleaning robots.

  Founded KEMARO

• Artem Kuchukov1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of KEWAZO (founded 2016), maker of the LIFTBOT robotic scaffolding hoist and construction-logistics robotics.

  Founded Kewazo

• David Cann1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Double Robotics, developing the Double 3 telepresence robot. Y Combinator graduate.

  Founded Double Robotics

• Dima Gazda1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Esper Bionics; an MD and embedded engineer building the AI-powered Esper Hand prosthetic and a brain-computer-interface platform.

  Founded Esper Bionics

• Ekaterina Grib1 founding

  Co-founder of KEWAZO (founded 2016), the construction-robotics company digitizing scaffolding and material transport.

  Founded Kewazo

• Gokul N A1 founding

  Co-founder of CynLr. Working on object intelligence for robotics.

  Founded CynLr

• Jens Peder Kristensen1 founding

  Founder of TinyMobileRobots (Malling, Denmark, founded 2015), maker of the TinyLineMarker autonomous sports-field and road line-marking robots.

  Founded TinyMobileRobots

• Jin Yongbin1 founding

  Jin Yongbin is Founder at MirrorMe Technology; co-founder of MirrorMe Technology.

  Founded MirrorMe Technology

• Martin Gadient1 founding

  Co-founder of KEMARO, leading strategic partnerships and innovation for the Swiss autonomous industrial cleaning robot company founded in 2016.

  Founded KEMARO

• Matthew McMullen1 founding

  COO of [Realbotix](/companies/realbotix) (OTC: XBOTF). Founder of Abyss Creations, maker of RealDoll — the originator of the realistic humanoid figure lineage t...

  Founded Realbotix

• Nikhil Ramaswamy1 founding

  Co-founder of CynLr. Working on visual object intelligence for robotics for over a decade.

  Founded CynLr

• Salah Sukkarieh1 founding

  Professor of Robotics and Intelligent Systems at The University of Sydney and CEO of Agerris. Spun out Agerris from research at the Australian Centre for Field ...

  Founded Agerris

• Thomas Oberholzer1 founding

  Co-founder and CSO of KEMARO. Relocated to the United States in 2026 to lead KEMARO Inc. North American go-to-market strategy.

  Founded KEMARO

• Jean Crosetti1 founding

  CEO and Co-Founder of Bubble Robotics. Met co-founder Patricia Apostol through the Entrepreneurs First program. Brings commercial and operational experience to ...

  Founded Bubble Robotics

• Patricia Apostol1 founding

  Co-Founder of Bubble Robotics. Brings technical credibility from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and ETH Zurich. Met co-founder Jean Crosetti through Entrepreneu...

  Founded Bubble Robotics

• Helen Oleynikova1 founding

  Robotics veteran with 15 years across Willow Garage, Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and ETH Zürich. Holds a PhD from ETH Zürich in mapping and planning for cluttere...

  Founded Exclaim Robotics

• Dr Bruno Lacerda1 founding

  Co-Founder and CTO of Stateful Robotics. His research at the University of Oxford into probabilistic verification and decision-making under uncertainty underpin...

  Founded Stateful Robotics

• Kirsty Lloyd-Jukes1 founding

  CEO and Co-Founder of Stateful Robotics, an Oxford University spinout developing long-horizon decision intelligence for mobile robots. Previously CEO of Latent ...

  Founded Stateful Robotics

• Nick Hawes1 founding

  Professor of AI and Robotics at University of Oxford. Director of the Oxford Robotics Institute.

  Founded Stateful Robotics

• Prof. David Parker1 founding

  Co-Founder of Stateful Robotics and Professor at the University of Oxford. His decade-long research at Oxford into autonomy, probabilistic verification and deci...

  Founded Stateful Robotics

• Kaustubh Dhonde1 founding

  Founder and CEO of AutoNxt Automation, a Mumbai-based startup developing India's first CMVR-certified electric autonomous tractor. Founded AutoNxt in 2016 as an...

  Founded AutoNxt

• Dr. Michael Yip1 founding

  Dr. Michael Yip is Co-Founder of Channel Robotics. He co-founded the medical robotics startup in 2023 with Dr. Philip Weissbrod.

  Founded Channel Robotics

• Dr. Philip Weissbrod1 founding

  Dr. Philip A. Weissbrod, MD is Co-Founder and CEO of Channel Robotics. He is a physician leading the development of handheld AI-enabled endoscopic robotic techn...

  Founded Channel Robotics

• Sethu Saveda Suvanam1 founding

  Founder and CEO of ReOrbit.

  Founded ReOrbit

• Matthieu Lapeyre1 founding

  Co-founder and former CEO of Pollen Robotics (2016–2025). Former INRIA researcher. Now Head of Robotics Product and Hardware at Pollen Robotics following Huggin...

  Founded Pollen Robotics

• Pierre Rouanet1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Pollen Robotics. Former INRIA researcher specializing in robotics and AI.

  Founded Pollen Robotics

• James Emerick1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of [Cosmic Robotics](/companies/cosmic-robotics). Grew up on construction sites, then spent his career bringing robots to the field with Buil...

  Founded Cosmic Robotics

• Lewis C Jones1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of [Cosmic Robotics](/companies/cosmic-robotics). Previously helped launch the world's first 3D-printed rocket at Relativity Space.

  Founded Cosmic Robotics

• He Xiongwei1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Mushiny, an agricultural robotics company building autonomous farming solutions.

  Founded Mushiny

• Alessandro Morra1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Ascento (began as an ETH Zurich project in 2018), maker of the Ascento Guard wheel-legged outdoor security robot.

  Founded Ascento

• Miguel de la Iglesia Valls1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Ascento, the Swiss outdoor-security-robot company spun out of ETH Zurich.

  Founded Ascento

• Matthew Johnson-Roberson1 founding

  Co-founder and (titular) CTO of Refraction AI; operationally departed since ~2020. Subsequently Director of the CMU Robotics Institute and now inaugural Dean of...

  Founded Refraction AI

• Ram Vasudevan1 founding

  Co-founder of Refraction AI; an associate professor of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics at the University of Michigan (co-director of the Ford Center for Aut...

  Founded Refraction AI

• Sebastian Asprella1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of ThinkOrbital.

  Founded ThinkOrbital

• Avi Gotskind1 founding

  Co-founder and CGO (Chief Growth Officer) of Voltair. Previously a consultant on go-to-market and government affairs strategy across aerospace and space compani...

  Founded Voltair

• Hayden Gosch1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Voltair. University of Washington ECE alumnus (BSECE '25) who focused on power electronics. Spent two years doing system protection engine...

  Founded Voltair

• Ronan Nopp1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Voltair. University of Washington ECE alumnus (BSECE '25) who independently designed and tuned the controls system for a manned eVTOL airc...

  Founded Voltair

• Runal Dahiwade1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Peppermint Robotics in Pune, India, developing autonomous floor cleaning robots.

  Founded Peppermint Robotics

• Warren Weissbluth1 founding

  Co-founder and COO of Voltair. Studied Operations Research engineering at Rice University. Previously worked for two NSF-funded startups, where he helped raise ...

  Founded Voltair

• Oral Yigitkus1 founding

  Oral Yiğitkuş is a computer engineer and co-founder of Delivers.ai, a Turkish delivery robot company he started with electrical engineer Ali Kutay Yaralı.

  Founded Delivers AI

• Benoit Savary1 founding

  Founder and CEO of TIBOT Technologies (founded 2016), the French poultry-robotics company whose Spoutnic robots improve flock health and reduce floor eggs.

  Founded Tibot Technologies

• Roberto Rossi1 founding

  Co-founder and General Manager of Smart Robots S.r.l., a Milan-based deep tech company within the e-Novia group. Smart Robots develops 3D vision and AR systems ...

  Founded Smart Robots

• Sanjeev Kumar1 founding

  Founder of Alphadroid, a Noida-based robotics and AI startup building autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) for hospitality, healthcare, retail, and logistics. The id...

  Founded Alphadroid

• Gary Calnan1 founding

  CEO and Co-founder of CisLunar Industries, a space-technology startup building in-space manufacturing, metal foundries, and power processing infrastructure for ...

  Founded CisLunar Industries

• Joe Pawelski1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of CisLunar Industries, a Denver, Colorado-based space manufacturing company developing in-space metal foundries and pow...

  Founded CisLunar Industries

• Cheng Feng1 founding

  Co-founder of NetPosa Technologies, an AI and IoT company.

  Founded NetPosa Technologies

• Cheng Feng1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of NetPosa Technologies.

  Founded NetPosa Technologies

• Miika Satori1 founding

  Founder and CEO of [Cambrian Robotics](/companies/cambrian-robotics), a London-based machine-vision startup building AI-driven vision software and camera hardwa...

  Founded Cambrian Robotics

• Zaki Hussein1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Touchlab. PhD in intelligent sensing and measurement from Edinburgh University. Bootstrapped the company before securing venture funding.

  Founded Touchlab

• Avi Kahani1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of FFRobotics (founded 2014), developer of an autonomous fresh-fruit (apple) harvesting robot.

  Founded FFRobotics

• Yoav Koster1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of FFRobotics, developing robotic fruit harvesting technology.

  Founded FFRobotics

• Ritukar Vijay1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Ottonomy.io (founded 2020), Cincinnati-based autonomous sidewalk delivery robot company making the Ottobot. Deployed in airports including...

  Founded Ottonomy

• George Hotz1 founding

  Founder of comma.ai, the vehicle automation company behind openpilot, where he worked from 2015 until November 2025. Known online as geohot, he was the first pe...

  Founded Comma AI

• Clint Brauer1 founding

  Third-generation farmer and technologist who founded Greenfield Robotics to build AI-powered weed-cutting robots that eliminate herbicide use.

  Founded GreenField Robotics

• Daniel Blank1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Toggle Industries (founded 2016 with Ian Cohen); built a full-stack robotics solution for automated rebar fabrication and assembly.

  Founded Toggle Industries

• Ian Cohen1 founding

  Co-founder of Toggle Industries (founded 2016), the automated rebar-fabrication robotics company.

  Founded Toggle Industries

• Johnson Zhang1 founding

  CEO of CHASING Innovation, a Chinese underwater robotics company developing ROVs for consumer and industrial markets.

  Founded CHASING Innovation

• Konstantin Rangelov1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Dronamics. Founded the company with his brother Svilen in 2014.

  Founded Dronamics

• Svilen Rangelov1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Dronamics. Founded the company with his brother Konstantin in 2014 to build the Black Swan cargo drone.

  Founded Dronamics

• Adityanag Nagesh1 founding

  CBO of Mowito, a vision AI company for robotics and automation. He was previously VP Hardware at Sensara and earlier worked at IBM.

  Founded Mowito

• Ariel Ekblaw1 founding

  Co-founder of Rendezvous Robotics. Founded and directed the Self-Assembly Lab at MIT Media Lab, where TESSERAE was developed. Tested TESSERAE on the ISS via Axi...

  Founded Rendezvous Robotics

• Jacob Balaj1 founding

  Jacob Balaj is the Co-founder & CTO of Hop Aero (YC S26). US Marine Corps (MV-22 avionics) → SpaceX (Falcon 9/Heavy, built booster refurbishment program) → Virg...

  Founded Hop Aero

• Joe Landon1 founding

  Co-founder and President of Rendezvous Robotics, a Golden, Colorado space infrastructure company commercializing TESSERAE modular self-assembling orbital struct...

  Founded Rendezvous Robotics

• Matija Milenovic1 founding

  Matija Milenovic is the Founder & CEO of Hop Aero (YC S26). Previously CEO at porkchop (electric propulsion for small satellites), launched on SpaceX Transporte...

  Founded Hop Aero

• Nader Hamda1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Ozobot (incorporated as Evollve Inc.), a Redondo Beach, CA edtech robotics company he founded in 2012 to teach children coding through screen...

  Founded Ozobot

• Phil Frank1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Rendezvous Robotics, a Golden, Colorado space infrastructure startup commercializing TESSERAE self-assembling orbital structures. A vetera...

  Founded Rendezvous Robotics

• Puru Rastogi1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Mowito. Previously built autonomous helicopters and studied robotics at Carnegie Mellon. Ex-Near Earth Autonomy.

  Founded Mowito

• Safar V1 founding

  Safar V is a co-founder of Mowito, a Bengaluru robotics startup building AI-powered automation for warehouses, dark stores and factories, with Puru Rastogi and ...

  Founded Mowito

• Cristian Ponce1 founding

  Cristian Ponce is CEO and co-founder of Tetsuwan Scientific. He holds a background in biological engineering from Caltech, where he contributed to research in f...

  Founded Tetsuwan Scientific

• Theo Schafer1 founding

  Theo Schafer is CTO and co-founder of Tetsuwan Scientific. He completed his master's degree in Mechanical Engineering from ETH Zurich, with a thesis at MIT. He ...

  Founded Tetsuwan Scientific

• Manesh Jain1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Flo Mobility, a 3x serial entrepreneur (SourceWeb, ProcurePack, Mockbank) based in Bengaluru, India. Previously founded an edtech startup ...

  Founded Flo Mobility

• Pratik Patel1 founding

  Co-founder and COO of Flo Mobility, an engineer-founder with a Mechanical Engineering background based in Bengaluru, India. Co-founded Flo Mobility in December ...

  Founded Flo Mobility

• Tian Wang1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Ascentiz, pioneering modular exoskeleton technology for everyday and industrial use.

  Founded Ascentiz

• Vimal Govind MK1 founding

  Co-Founder & CEO of Genrobotics Innovations. Forbes Asia 30 Under 30 honoree. Developed Bandicoot, the world's first robotic manhole scavenger, deployed across ...

  Founded Genrobotics

• Huang Junping1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Geneinno, a Shenzhen-based underwater drone company established in 2013. Leads development of consumer and professional ROVs including the Ti...

  Founded Geneinno

• Brandon Minor1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Tangram Vision (founded 2020). Former Principal Manager of the robotics and calibration team at Occipital, creators of the Structure Senso...

  Founded Tangram Vision

• Adam Rodnitzky1 founding

  Co-founder and former COO of Tangram Vision (2020-2024). Previously GM and VP of Marketing at Occipital. Left Tangram Vision in November 2024 after nearly five ...

  Founded Tangram Vision

• Adheesh Boratkar1 founding

  Co-founder & CTO of Ulook Technologies, a Bengaluru-based space-intelligence startup building autonomous RF-sensing satellite swarms. Oversees hardware and payl...

  Founded Ulook Technologies

• Siddhesh Ravindra Naik1 founding

  Co-founder & CEO of Ulook Technologies, a Bengaluru-based space-intelligence startup building autonomous RF-sensing satellite swarms. Has experience working wit...

  Founded Ulook Technologies

• Albert Maas1 founding

  Founder of Avular, spun out of Eindhoven University of Technology in 2014 to develop modular mobile robot platforms.

  Founded Avular

• Dominykas Rinkevičius1 founding

  Co-founder and Head of Engineering at PDKINEMATICS, joined in 2025 to lead product development.

  Founded PDKINEMATICS

• Rapolas Markevičius1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of PDKINEMATICS. Former private equity professional who joined the Lithuanian army reserves in 2022 in response to Russia's invasion of Ukrai...

  Founded PDKINEMATICS

• Simonas Stasevičius1 founding

  Co-founder of PDKINEMATICS. Aerospace engineer who began developing precision-guided munitions for UAVs with Rapolas Markevičius in 2022 in response to Russia's...

  Founded PDKINEMATICS

• Matthias Moroder1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of FlyingBasket, a heavy-lift cargo drone manufacturer and operator based in Bolzano, Italy. Founded FlyingBasket in 2015 with his brother Mo...

  Founded FlyingBasket

• Moritz Moroder1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of FlyingBasket, the European leader in heavy-lift cargo drones based in Bolzano, Italy. Founded the company in 2015 with his brother Matthia...

  Founded FlyingBasket

• Bharath Sankaran1 founding

  Co-founder of Scaled Robotics (later Naska.AI), the construction quality-control robotics company; a robotics researcher.

  Founded Scaled Robotics

• Stuart Maggs1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Scaled Robotics (later rebranded Naska.AI), which built AI/3D-scanning robots for construction progress monitoring and quality control.

  Founded Scaled Robotics

• Anahita Laverack1 founding

  Co-founder of Oshen, which builds fleets of autonomous ocean micro-robots called C-Stars to collect ocean data. A sailor who once planned to become an aerospace...

  Founded Oshen

• Arthur Erickson1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Hylio (founded 2015 while at UT Austin); led the company's shift to agricultural spray drones such as the AG-series.

  Founded Hylio

• Ciaran Dowds1 founding

  Co-founder of Oshen, which he started with Anahita Laverack in April 2022. An electrical engineer, he helped build the company's C-Star autonomous micro-robots,...

  Founded Oshen

• Mark Boost1 founding

  Founder & CEO of Civo, leading the company's vision for a simpler, more developer-friendly cloud platform.

  Founded Civo

• George M. Whitesides1 founding

  Harvard chemist whose research group pioneered soft robotics; founded Soft Robotics Inc. (2012), now rebranded Oxipital AI, which commercialized soft pneumatic ...

  Founded Oxipital AI

• Richard Beaumont1 founding

  Richard Beaumont is a co-founder of Agovor, with Simon Carroll, which builds autonomous electric eTractors for horticulture. The company began as a way to solve...

  Founded Agovor

• Simon Carroll1 founding

  Simon Carroll co-founded Agovor with Richard Beaumont in 2022. The New Zealand startup builds autonomous electric eTractors for vineyards, orchards and berry fa...

  Founded Agovor

• Howard Wu1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Antobot. Previously worked on embedded systems. Based at the Chelmsford Arise Innovation Hub.

  Founded Antobot

• Nicole Robinson1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of LYRO Robotics.

  Founded LYRO Robotics

• Shi Lei (石磊)1 founding

  Co-founder of Guangzhou Shipeng Technology (SEEPPO). PhD and electrical control systems expert with 8 years of exoskeleton control system R&D experience. Former...

  Founded SEEPPO (Guangzhou Shipeng Technology)

• Yin Peng (尹鹏)1 founding

  Co-founder of Guangzhou Shipeng Technology (SEEPPO). PhD and expert in motion intent recognition with 9 years of exoskeleton R&D experience. Named leading talen...

  Founded SEEPPO (Guangzhou Shipeng Technology)

• Alexander Bahr1 founding

  Co-founder of Hydromea. Expertise in underwater navigation and autonomous robotics from EPFL.

  Founded Hydromea

• Felix Schill1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Hydromea. Completed his Diploma in Computer Science at the University of Karlsruhe. Leads underwater robotics and wireless communication t...

  Founded Hydromea

• Christine Spiten1 founding

  Norwegian engineer, sailing champion, and co-founder of [Blueye Robotics](/companies/blueye-robotics) (2015), the Trondheim-based underwater drone company. M.Sc...

  Founded Blueye Robotics

• Erik Dyrkoren1 founding

  CEO and co-founder of Blueye Robotics, a spinoff from NTNU developing underwater ROVs for inspection and maritime security.

  Founded Blueye Robotics

• Erik Haugane1 founding

  Co-founder of [Blueye Robotics](/companies/blueye-robotics) (2015), the Norwegian underwater drone company based in Trondheim. Blueye develops the Blueye Pionee...

  Founded Blueye Robotics

• Martin Ludvigsen1 founding

  Co-founder and board member of [Blueye Robotics](/companies/blueye-robotics) (2015). Blueye was founded in Trondheim with roots in the Centre for Autonomous Mar...

  Founded Blueye Robotics

• Antoine Tournet1 founding

  CEO and co-founder of DIODON Drone Technology, a maritime UAV company serving the defense and civil maritime markets. He holds an engineering degree from ISAE-S...

  Founded DIODON Drone Technology

• Roman Luciani1 founding

  Roman Luciani is an executive of DIODON Drone Technology, a French SME founded in 2017 that designs, manufactures and integrates aerial drone systems for mariti...

  Founded DIODON Drone Technology

• Bhavin Dharia1 founding

  M.Sc. Machine vision specialist and robotics software engineer. Co-founder and Lead Software Developer at TetraGen Robotics.

  Founded TetraGen Robotics

• Eric Wei1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of MoveEz, a Taiwan-born entrepreneur leading the Japanese robotaxi startup's autonomous driving development and global expansion. Previously...

  Founded MoveEz

• Keisuke Yoneda1 founding

  Co-founder and CAIO of MoveEz, holds a Ph.D. and leads AI strategy for the Japanese autonomous robotaxi startup. MoveEz originated from 28 years of autonomous d...

  Founded MoveEz

• Matt Khoshdarregi1 founding

  P.Eng. and Ph.D. founder of the University of Manitoba Intelligent Digital Manufacturing Lab, now CEO and co-founder of TetraGen Robotics.

  Founded TetraGen Robotics

• Michael Newman1 founding

  P.Eng., M.Sc. Former manufacturing engineer at North America's largest bus manufacturer (NFI). Co-founder, COO and Director of Engineering at TetraGen Robotics.

  Founded TetraGen Robotics

• Naoki Suganuma1 founding

  CTO and Co-founder of MoveEz, a professor and pioneer in autonomous driving research with nearly 30 years of experience at Kanazawa University, where he earned ...

  Founded MoveEz

• Joseph Sullivan1 founding

  Co-founded Daxbot with his brother Kevin Sullivan in 2015; serves as Senior Mechanical Engineer responsible for Dax robot hardware design.

  Founded Daxbot

• Kevin Sullivan1 founding

  Co-founded Daxbot with his brother Joseph Sullivan in 2015; the brothers previously developed tech for emergency responders.

  Founded Daxbot

• Konrad Fagertun1 founding

  Founder and business developer of nLink, originated the mobile drilling robot concept and won RoboBusiness Pitchfire in 2014.

  Founded nLink

• Kyu-jin Cho1 founding

  Co-founder and CSO of Rebodis. Professor at Seoul National University leading the Biomechatronics Lab, where Rebodis's soft wearable robotics technology origina...

  Founded Rebodis

• Sung-Sik Yun1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Rebodis, a Seoul-based soft wearable robotics startup spun out of Seoul National University's Biomechatronics Lab. Developing garment-type...

  Founded Rebodis

• Carlos Fernandez Isoird1 founding

  Founding partner of Gogoa, a Spanish maker of rehabilitation exoskeletons. He led work on the EU H2020-funded HANK project, which developed the HANK gait rehabi...

  Founded GOGOA Mobility Robots

• Marius Klimavičius1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Blackswan Space, a Vilnius-based space-tech startup building satellite autonomy software. Educated at the University of Southampton.

  Founded Blackswan Space

• Alona Pammer1 founding

  Co-Founder and CTO of Devanthro, leading the full robotics stack from hardware and control systems to AI-enabled autonomy. Moved from Ukraine to Germany in 2014...

  Founded Devanthro

• Rafael Hostettler1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Devanthro, building teleoperated humanoid robots (Robodies) for elderly care. Holds a Master in Computational Science and Engineering from ET...

  Founded Devanthro

• Carlos Salaff1 founding

  Co-founder and Design Director of [LEO Flight](/companies/leo-flight), an eVTOL aviation company competing in the GoAERO emergency-response flyer competition. A...

  Founded LEO Flight

• Pete Bitar1 founding

  Pete Bitar is a pilot with 40+ years of experience and holder of 18 patents in fields ranging from electrical and laser weapon systems to aviation and renewable...

  Founded LEO Flight

• Alireza Kenarsari1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Picovoice, an edge AI voice recognition company.

  Founded Picovoice

• Dan Komorny1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of [Earendil Robotics](/companies/earendil-robotics), a Y Combinator (S26) counter-UAS defense company. Has a decade of experience in drones ...

  Founded Earendil Robotics

• Dr Matthew Moore1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Milliray (YC W26), developing millimeter-wave radar technology to detect and track small drones. Holds a PhD from the University of St Andrew...

  Founded Milliray

• Evan Wineland1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Weave Robotics, former Apple engineer who met co-founder Kaan Dogrusoz at Carnegie Mellon University in 2015.

  Founded Weave Robotics

• James Walton1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of [Earendil Robotics](/companies/earendil-robotics), a Y Combinator (S26) counter-UAS defense company. Former British Army UAS specialist wi...

  Founded Earendil Robotics

• Kaan Dogrusoz1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Weave Robotics, former Apple engineer who met co-founder Evan Wineland at Carnegie Mellon University. Leads the technical development of t...

  Founded Weave Robotics

• Kartik Tiwari1 founding

  Kartik Tiwari is CTO and co-founder of Andromeda Surgical. A 3x technical founder, he previously founded Starsky Robotics (YC S16), which built the world's firs...

  Founded Andromeda Surgical

• Michael Chen1 founding

  MIT dropout and robotics researcher; co-founder and CEO of Yondu AI, a Y Combinator W24 company building robots to automate fulfillment. Background in intellige...

  Founded Yondu

• Nick Damiano1 founding

  Nick Damiano is CEO and co-founder of Andromeda Surgical. A 3x medtech founder, he previously founded Zenflow (YC W15, raised $100M+, Class 3 FDA approval) and ...

  Founded Andromeda Surgical

• Tahmid Jamal1 founding

  MIT graduate in AI & Aerospace; co-founder and CTO of Yondu AI, a Y Combinator W24 company building robots to automate fulfillment. Founded Yondu in late 2023 a...

  Founded Yondu

• Armen Arakelyan1 founding

  Co-founder & CTO at Ornadyne, building autonomous flapping-wing aircraft. Previously a Starship components engineer at SpaceX. Before that, led machining at USC...

  Founded Ornadyne

• Geourg Kivijian1 founding

  Co-founder & CEO of Ornadyne. Award-winning engineer (IEEE/AIAA) recognized for pioneering work in flapping-wing robotics. Previously led coordination systems f...

  Founded Ornadyne

• Hanming Ye1 founding

  Co-founder of Waddle Labs, building AI agents that write control code for robots. Harvard College Class of 2028 student; authored a 2025 paper on steering diffu...

  Founded Waddle Labs

• Vincent Yiding Song1 founding

  Co-founder of Waddle Labs, building AI agents that write control code for robots. Harvard College Class of 2028 student studying computer science, mind-brain-be...

  Founded Waddle Labs

• Dr. Frank Noppel1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of blueflite, a Michigan-based cargo drone OEM. Serial entrepreneur and aerospace enthusiast with 20 years of industry experience. Previously...

  Founded Blueflite

• James McClearen1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of blueflite. Engineer with 20 years of experience in automotive and defense industries. Previously Chief Engineer at AVL and at a defense su...

  Founded Blueflite

• Jakub Bartoszek1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of MAB Robotics in Poznan, Poland. Led the company to a 2025 RBR50 Robotics Innovation Award for the Honey Badger quadruped robot.

  Founded MAB Robotics

• Aron Frishberg1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Gatsby Robotics. University of Chicago dropout who previously worked at hedge fund Third Point and at Fira, a Y Combinator W25 startup. Found...

  Founded Gatsby Robotics

• Marina Umaschi Bers1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Scientist at KinderLab Robotics, maker of the KIBO screen-free robotics kit for early childhood STEM education. She is an Augustus Long Pro...

  Founded KinderLab Robotics

• Mitch Rosenberg1 founding

  CEO and Co-founder of KinderLab Robotics, maker of the KIBO screen-free robotics kit for early childhood STEM education. He brings over 30 years of experience i...

  Founded KinderLab Robotics

• Qin Lin1 founding

  Research focuses on optimization, ML, control theory, and formal verification for safety-critical robotic systems including autonomous racing cars, quadrotors, ...

  Founded University of Houston

• Ridha Azaiz1 founding

  Ridha Azaiz is a German engineer who developed Solarbrush, a robotic solar panel cleaning system. He first designed the robot in 1998 at age 13, and Solarbrush ...

  Founded SolarBrush

• Scott LaValley1 founding

  Founder of Cartwheel Robotics.

  Founded Cartwheel Robotics

• Lucas Raskin1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Guardian RF, a counter-drone defense company building passive radio-frequency sensors that detect, locate, and classify drone threats to p...

  Founded Guardian RF

• Andrew James1 founding

  Andrew James is the Founder and CEO of Rootline Robotics, an agricultural robotics company he co-founded at Cornell University after winning the $50,000 grand p...

  Founded Rootline Robotics

• Natalia Kurz1 founding

  Co-founder and Research Lead at Rootline Robotics. Biological engineering major at Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (Class of 2029)...

  Founded Rootline Robotics

• A.K. Schultz1 founding

  CEO & Co-Founder of SVT Robotics; leads overall company vision, product and go-to-market strategies; has led design and implementation of high-profile automatio...

  Founded SVT Robotics

• Abhishek Gupta1 founding

  Co-Founder and COO of Flux Auto, a Bengaluru-based Y Combinator W21 startup (founded 2016) building physical AI for warehouses and factories. The company develo...

  Founded Flux Auto

• Adrian Schmidt1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Sarla Aviation, developing India's first 700 kg-class electric eVTOL aircraft.

  Founded Sarla Aviation

• Aidan Gomez1 founding

  Former Google Brain researcher. Co-founded Cohere in 2019 to build enterprise language models.

  Founded Cohere

• Ajay Sunkara1 founding

  Co-founder, President, and CEO of Nala Robotics, the autonomous-kitchen / robot-chef company founded in 2017.

  Founded Nala Robotics

• Alan Cowen1 founding

  CEO & Founder of [Hume AI](/companies/hume-ai), building empathic voice interfaces and expression measurement AI. Developed semantic space theory for emotion sc...

  Founded Hume AI

• Aldo Zini1 founding

  President and CEO of Aethon, maker of the TUG autonomous hospital-delivery robot; a long-time leader in hospital-automation robotics.

  Founded Aethon

• Alejandro Matamala Ortiz1 founding

  Co-founder of Runway.

  Founded Runway

• Alex Gordon1 founding

  Co-founder of Revolve Surgical. PhD in surgical robotics.

  Founded Revolve Surgical

• Alex Karp1 founding

  CEO and co-founder of Palantir Technologies, a data analytics software company serving government and commercial clients.

  Founded Palantir Technologies

• Alex Zhou1 founding

  Zhou Yong (Alex Zhou) is Founder and CEO of Linkerbot, a Beijing-based robotics unicorn dominating the high-DoF robotic hand market. He graduated at age 14 from...

  Founded Linkerbot

• Alexander Boehler1 founding

  Alexander Boehler is the founder of Spring Active, a Tempe, Arizona-based company developing powered exoskeletons and wearable robotics for human locomotion aug...

  Founded Spring Active

• Alexander Reske1 founding

  Co-founder and COO of RIVR, the Swiss physical-AI robotics company developing general-purpose robots for doorstep delivery. Co-founded RIVR (formerly Swiss-Mile...

  Founded RIVR

• Alexander Schlaepfer1 founding

  Founder of Inspection Robotics (originally ALSTOM Inspection Robotics), an ETH Zurich Autonomous Systems Lab spin-off established in 2006 as a joint venture wit...

  Founded Inspection Robotics

• Alexander Schmitz1 founding

  Co-founder & CEO of XELA Robotics; developed tactile sensors for 13+ years; formerly Associate Professor at Waseda University; PhD from University of Sheffield.

  Founded XELA Robotics

• Alfons Carnicero1 founding

  Spanish healthcare entrepreneur from Barcelona, co-founder and CEO of ABLE Human Motion (founded 2018), a medical exoskeleton company enabling mobility for spin...

  Founded ABLE Human Motion

• Alfred Kärcher1 founding

  Alfred Kärcher is Founder at Karcher; co-founder of Karcher.

  Founded Karcher

• Amaury Kosman1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Circular, a Paris-based smart ring company. Led the development of the Circular Ring 2, named Best Wearable of CES 2025.

  Founded Circular

• Amir Bousani1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of RGo Robotics. Leads the company's vision and strategy for AI-powered perception technology for mobile robots.

  Founded RGo Robotics

• Anastasis Germanidis1 founding

  Co-founder of Runway.

  Founded Runway

• Andreas Blattmann1 founding

  Co-founder of Black Forest Labs; former Stability AI researcher on Stable Diffusion.

  Founded Black Forest Labs

• Andrew Barry1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Generalist AI (2024). Former engineer at Boston Dynamics. Leads technical architecture for Generalist AI's cross-robot foundation model an...

  Founded Generalist AI

• Andrew Feldman1 founding

  Co-founder & CEO of Cerebras Systems (NASDAQ: CBRS). Builds the world's fastest AI infrastructure with wafer-scale processors. WSE-2 has 2.6 trillion transistor...

  Founded Cerebras Systems

• Andrew Webber1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Digital Power Optimization, an energy and blockchain technology company.

  Founded Digital Power Optimization

• Andy Zeng1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Scientist of Generalist AI (2024). Former research scientist at Google DeepMind; co-authored foundational models for physical intelligence ...

  Founded Generalist AI

• Angelique Ahlstrom1 founding

  Co-founder of Flash Forest (founded 2019), the tree-planting-drone reforestation company.

  Founded Flash Forest

• Ankit Mehta1 founding

  CEO of ideaForge Technology, an Indian drone manufacturer producing UAVs for defense and industrial applications.

  Founded ideaForge Technology

• Anna Cheniuntai1 founding

  Co-founder of Apis Cor, the construction-3D-printing company.

  Founded Apis Cor

• Antoine Bataille1 founding

  Founder and CEO of CareClever, maker of the Cutii companion robot for seniors that combats loneliness and supports aging in place.

  Founded Cutii

• Antoine Marcel1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Flourish Robots; repeat founder with a prior exit.

  Founded Flourish Robots

• Apoorva Mehta1 founding

  Founder of Instacart. He served as CEO until August 2021, when he became executive chairman, and in 2022 announced plans to step down and leave the board once t...

  Founded Instacart

• Aronin Ponnappan1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Sastra Robotics. Robotics specialist helping QA teams with robotics-aided test automation.

  Founded Sastra Robotics

• Arthur Kolesnikov1 founding

  Founder and CEO of In-Pipe Robot Inc., developing robotic pipeline inspection systems using digital twins and cutting-edge robotics.

  Founded InPipe Technology

• Arthur Mensch1 founding

  CEO and co-founder of Mistral AI, a French AI company. Founded 2023, HQ Paris.

  Founded Mistral AI

• Assaf Agmon1 founding

  Co-founder and VP R&D of RGo Robotics. Oversees research and development for the Perception Engine platform.

  Founded RGo Robotics

• Audley Wilson1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of RoboBurger, data scientist who invented the world's first fully autonomous burger machine. Featured on Shark Tank.

  Founded RoboBurger

• Avi Schiffmann1 founding

  22-year-old founder and CEO of Friend, an AI wearable necklace company. Previously built COVID tracking website. The 29 AI pendant is always-listening and meant...

  Founded Friend

• Avraham Cohen1 founding

  Co-founder of MediTouch Ltd. Israeli rehabilitation technology company founded in 2004.

  Founded MediTouch

• Ayushmoy Roy1 founding

  Co-Founder & Head of Product & Technology at Pace Robotics. MS Robotics from University of Pennsylvania. Built the foundations of Pace Robotics.

  Founded Pace

• Balaji Viswanathan1 founding

  Founder and CEO of [Invento Robotics](/companies/invento-robotics), a Bengaluru-based company developing the Mitra humanoid service robot. PhD in Computer Scien...

  Founded Invento Robotics

• Banks Hunter1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Charge Robotics (founded 2021 with Max Justicz); MIT mechanical-engineering grad who previously worked at Shaper Tools and Vicarious Surgi...

  Founded Charge Robotics

• Bartolomej Janek1 founding

  Slovak engineer (Ing. Bartolomej Janek, CSc.) who co-invented the TwinSpin® high-precision reduction gear in the early 1990s with Tibor Fecko. Co-founded Spinea...

  Founded Spinea

• Belinda Zhang1 founding

  CEO of QYSEA, a Chinese underwater robotics company developing ROVs for industrial and consumer applications.

  Founded QYSEA

• Ben Bloom1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Atom Computing, a Berkeley-based neutral-atom quantum computing company he founded in January 2018. Holds a PhD in physics from the Universit...

  Founded Atom Computing

• Ben Mann1 founding

  Co-founder of Anthropic.

  Founded Anthropic

• Benjamin Pietro Filardo1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Pliant Energy Systems, developing biomimetic undulating robots with novel fin-based propulsion systems.

  Founded Pliant Energy Systems

• Benjamin Sexson1 founding

  CEO and co-founder of Monogram Technologies (CFA); previously at Pro-Dex. Monogram was acquired by Zimmer Biomet in October 2025.

  Founded Monogram Technologies

• Bhavish Aggarwal1 founding

  Indian entrepreneur and co-founder/CEO of Ola Consumer (formerly Ola Cabs), which he co-founded with Ankit Bhati in January 2011. He is also the founder of Ola ...

  Founded Ola

• Bob Fayfield1 founding

  Founder of Banner Engineering. Founded in 1966. Global leader in process and industrial automation sensors, machine vision, and wireless monitoring.

  Founded Banner Engineering

• Bob Raida1 founding

  CEO of [HEBI Robotics](/companies/hebi-robotics), a Pittsburgh-based modular actuator company spun out of the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute. Undergraduate ...

  Founded HEBI Robotics

• Brad Dwyer1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Roboflow, a computer vision platform enabling over one million developers to build and deploy CV applications. A serial entrepreneur, he p...

  Founded Roboflow

• Brett Browning1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Stack AV; previously at Argo AI, Uber ATG, and CMU. PhD from the University of Queensland.

  Founded Stack AV

• Brett Lindenfeld1 founding

  Co-founder of Motiv Space Systems (founded 2014), the space-robotics company behind robotic arms and mechanisms for NASA missions.

  Founded Motiv Space Systems

• Brett Velicovich1 founding

  Founder of Powerus, a defense technology company developing drone and robotics systems for military applications.

  Founded Powerus

• Brian Gerkey1 founding

  Co-founder and former CEO of Open Robotics (and the Open Source Robotics Foundation), the organization behind ROS and Gazebo; now its board chair.

  Founded Open Robotics

• Bryan Salesky1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Stack AV (autonomous trucking, 2023); previously co-founder and CEO of Argo AI, an engineering leader on the Google self-driving project, ...

  Founded Stack AV

• Bryce Jones1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Flash Forest (founded 2019), a Toronto company using tree-planting drones for large-scale reforestation.

  Founded Flash Forest

• Cameron Grogan1 founding

  Founder of Williams Brothers Development, a data center development company. Active in Georgia data center projects including Hall County and McDuffie County.

  Founded Cameron Grogan

• Cameron Jones1 founding

  Co-founder of Flash Forest (founded 2019 with brother Bryce Jones and Angelique Ahlstrom), the reforestation-drone company.

  Founded Flash Forest

• Cathie Wood1 founding

  CEO of Ark Invest. In 2024 Ark published research, outlined by Wood, estimating humanoid robots as a $24 trillion opportunity split between household and manufa...

  Founded ARK Invest

• Cecile Schmollgruber1 founding

  Co-founded Stereolabs in 2010, building the ZED stereo camera platform.

  Founded Stereolabs

• Chang Jing1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Roborock, founded in 2014 in Beijing. Built the company into a publicly listed robot vacuum and smart home appliance manufacturer.

  Founded Roborock

• Chang Liu1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Extend Robotics, a VR-based teleoperation robotics company.

  Founded Extend Robotics

• Charles Brian Quinn1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Greenzie (founded 2015), the autonomous-mowing software company; over fifteen years in technology, previously CTO at CloudTags and Holcomb...

  Founded Greenzie

• Charles Chen1 founding

  Co-founder of Tencent Holdings.

  Founded Tencent Holdings

• Charles Liang1 founding

  Founder of Supermicro in 1993 and its President, CEO and Chairman of the Board since inception.

  Founded Supermicro

• Chase Lochmiller1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Crusoe.

  Founded Crusoe

• Chen Tianshi1 founding

  Co-founder, Chairman and CEO of [Cambricon Technologies](/companies/cambricon). Earned a PhD in computer science from USTC by age 24 alongside his brother Chen ...

  Founded Cambricon Technologies

• Chen Yunji1 founding

  Co-founder of [Cambricon Technologies](/companies/cambricon). Researcher at the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Earned a PhD in ...

  Founded Cambricon Technologies

• Cheng Hao1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Booster Robotics (founded 2023), maker of the T1 humanoid; holds bachelor's and master's degrees from Tsinghua University's Department of Aut...

  Founded Booster Robotics

• Chris Crosby1 founding

  CEO of Compass Datacenters.

  Founded Compass Datacenters

• Chris Franzwa1 founding

  Co-founder of Verge Aero, the Philadelphia-based drone-light-show technology company.

  Founded Verge Aero

• Chris Monroe1 founding

  American physicist (b. 1965) and Gilhuly Family Presidential Distinguished Professor of ECE and Physics at Duke University. While a postdoc in David Wineland's ...

  Founded IonQ

• Chris Olah1 founding

  Co-founder of Anthropic, AI interpretability researcher.

  Founded Anthropic

• Chris Rogers1 founding

  Industrial designer and robotics entrepreneur who founded InspectorBots in 2008 after being laid off from a Boulder design firm. Studied photography and industr...

  Founded InspectorBots

• Chris Starkey1 founding

  Founded NexGen Cloud

• Chris Thayer1 founding

  Co-founder of Motiv Space Systems (founded 2014), the Pasadena space-robotics company that built the robotic arm on NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover.

  Founded Motiv Space Systems

• Christian Horne1 founding

  Founded Vast AI

• Christian Kaul1 founding

  Co-founder & CEO of Impossible Cloud, a European sovereign S3-compatible cloud storage provider.

  Founded Impossible Cloud

• Christophe Timmermans1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of SolarCleano (founded 2017), the Luxembourg maker of robotic solar-panel cleaning machines.

  Founded SolarCleano

• Christopher Re1 founding

  Co-founder of SambaNova Systems (founded 2017) and Stanford professor.

  Founded SambaNova Systems

• Christopher Zhou1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Shenzhen Camsense Technologies. Tsinghua University graduate.

  Founded Camsense

• Clement Delangue1 founding

  French entrepreneur; co-founder and CEO of Hugging Face (founded 2016 in New York City). Began his career at Moodstocks (acquired by Google) before teaming up w...

  Founded Hugging Face

• Clint Armstrong1 founding

  Co-founder and head of engineering at Hot Aisle.

  Founded Hot Aisle

• Cristobal Valenzuela1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Runway.

  Founded Runway

• Cully Cavness1 founding

  Founded Crusoe

• Daisuke Okanohara1 founding

  COO and co-founder of Preferred Networks, a Japanese AI company. Founded 2014, HQ Tokyo.

  Founded Preferred Networks, Inc.

• Dan Parks1 founding

  Co-founder of inVia Robotics; met his co-founders during robotics PhD studies at USC.

  Founded inVia Robotics

• Dana Anderson1 founding

  Chief Science Officer & Founder of [Infleqtion](/companies/infleqtion) (formerly ColdQuanta). Professor at JILA and University of Colorado Boulder. Pioneer in n...

  Founded Infleqtion

• Daniel Roberts1 founding

  Co-CEO of IREN, a bitcoin mining and AI infrastructure company. Founded 2018, HQ Sydney, Australia.

  Founded IREN

• Daniel Theobald1 founding

  Founder of Vecna Robotics (and earlier Vecna Technologies); a robotics pioneer of 20+ years who built the company's autonomous mobile robots and workflow-orches...

  Founded Vecna Robotics

• Daniela Amodei1 founding

  Former VP of Operations at OpenAI. Co-founded Anthropic with her brother Dario.

  Founded Anthropic

• Dario Amodei1 founding

  AI safety researcher; former VP of Research at OpenAI. Co-founded Anthropic in 2021.

  Founded Anthropic

• Darshan Hiranandani1 founding

  Founded Yotta Data Services

• Dave Coleman1 founding

  Founder and Chief Product Officer of [PickNik Robotics](/companies/picknik-robotics), a Boulder, Colorado-based company building the MoveIt Pro Robotics Platfor...

  Founded PickNik Robotics

• Dave Crinklaw1 founding

  Founder and CEO of GUSS Automation; grew it out of his family's Crinklaw Farm Services spray business to create the Global Unmanned Spray System autonomous orch...

  Founded GUSS Automation

• Dave Rollinson1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of [HEBI Robotics](/companies/hebi-robotics), a Pittsburgh robotics company spun out of Carnegie Mellon University's Bio...

  Founded HEBI Robotics

• David Ha1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Sakana AI; former Google researcher.

  Founded Sakana AI

• David Hanson1 founding

  American roboticist; founder and CEO of Hanson Robotics (founded 2013), creator of human-like social robots with realistic facial expressions, most notably Soph...

  Founded Hanson Robotics

• David Hsu1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Retool, started the company in 2017 after studying Computer Science and Philosophy at Oxford. YC W17 alumnus.

  Founded Retool

• David Ram1 founding

  David Ram is an Austrian entrepreneur, robotics engineer, and medical device designer, born April 29, 1979 in Kitzbuehel, Austria. He graduated from Graz Univer...

  Founded Tyromotion

• Deepak Jain1 founding

  Founder and CEO of AiNET, an innovator in data center and IT services. Developer of large-scale AI infrastructure platforms.

  Founded AiNET

• Demis Hassabis1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind (founded as DeepMind in 2010); DeepMind develops the Gemini Robotics models (the Apptronik partnership) and is the single ...

  Founded Google DeepMind

• Derik Pridmore1 founding

  Co-founded Osaro in 2015 to build AI-powered robotic picking solutions for industrial automation.

  Founded Osaro

• Dmitry Skorinko1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Eliport, an autonomous last-mile delivery robot company.

  Founded Eliport

• Dominik Feiden1 founding

  CEO and co-founder of Organifarms, developing the BERRY autonomous strawberry harvesting robot for greenhouse operations in Konstanz, Germany.

  Founded Organifarms

• Doug Recker1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Duos Edge AI, an edge AI infrastructure company.

  Founded Duos Edge AI

• Doug Unis1 founding

  Founder and Chief Medical Officer of Monogram Technologies (semi-autonomous knee robotics); a practicing orthopedic surgeon and associate professor at the Icahn...

  Founded Monogram Technologies

• Dr Atif Syed1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Wootzano, developing the Avarai fruit packaging robot with Wootzkin electronic skin. Awarded Princess Royal Silver Medal by the Royal Academy...

  Founded Wootzano

• Dr Peter Leek1 founding

  Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of [Oxford Quantum Circuits](/companies/oxford-quantum-circuits). Pioneered the Coaxmon 3D superconducting quantum circuit ...

  Founded Oxford Quantum Circuits

• Dr. Chao He1 founding

  President of MicroPort MedBot, the surgical robotics subsidiary of MicroPort that was established in 2015 and listed on the main board of the Hong Kong Stock Ex...

  Founded MicroPort MedBot

• Dr. David Löbl1 founding

  Dr. David Löbl is Co-Founder and CEO of ERC System. An aerospace engineer and leader shaping the future of hybrid-electric VTOL aircraft for defense and critica...

  Founded ERC System

• Dr. Gene Poor1 founding

  Founder of LifeFormations, a globally recognized animatronics company whose work has been featured at Walt Disney World, Universal Studios, and Great Wolf Lodge...

  Founded LifeFormations

• Dr. Jan Goetz1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of IQM Quantum Computers (Nasdaq: IQMX), a Finnish superconducting quantum computing company he spun out of Aalto University and VTT Technica...

  Founded IQM Quantum Computers

• Dr. Martin Schuettler1 founding

  CTO and Co-Founder of CorTec GmbH, a Freiburg-based neurotechnology company developing the Brain Interchange™ fully implantable wireless brain-computer interfac...

  Founded CorTec

• Dr. Qiu Chunxin1 founding

  Qiu Chunxin is the founder and chairman of RoboSense, a lidar maker he started in Shenzhen in August 2014 after a PhD in outdoor robotics perception at the Harb...

  Founded RoboSense Technology Co., Ltd.

• Dr. Zhu Xiaorui1 founding

  Zhu Xiaorui is a non-executive Director of RoboSense Technology Co., Ltd.

  Founded RoboSense Technology Co., Ltd.

• Dustin Moskovitz1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Asana.

  Founded Asana

• Edmund J. Longyear1 founding

  Founder of Boart Longyear, a global mining drilling services and products company with a history spanning over 130 years.

  Founded Boart Longyear

• Eduardo Saverin1 founding

  Co-founder of Facebook and founder of B Capital, a global venture capital firm investing in technology companies.

  Founded B Capital

• Elena García Armada1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of [Marsi Bionics](/companies/marsi-bionics), a Spanish spin-off developing wearable robotic exoskeletons for children and adults with gait p...

  Founded Marsi Bionics

• Emanuele Menegatti1 founding

  Professor at the University of Padua and co-founder of IT+Robotics, a 3D industrial robot vision spin-off founded in 2005.

  Founded IT+Robotics

• Enrico Grassi1 founding

  Founder and President of E80 Group, the intralogistics automation company he established in Viano, Italy, in 1980. The company develops automation for manufactu...

  Founded E80 Group

• Eran Zinman1 founding

  Co-founder and Co-CEO of monday.com (NASDAQ: MNDY) since 2020 and a member of the board since 2018. Previously served as the company's Chief Technology Officer ...

  Founded monday.com

• Eric Li (Li Shufu)1 founding

  Founder and chairman of Geely, which he founded in November 1986, and chairman of Volvo Cars. In 2010 Geely agreed to buy Volvo Cars from Ford for US$1.8 billio...

  Founded ECARX

• Eric Manlunas1 founding

  Co-founder and General Partner of Wavemaker Partners. Previously founded Interfoods (acquired by La Reina) and Sitestar (acquired by Lynchburg.net). Made over 2...

  Founded Wavemaker Partners

• Etienne Louvet1 founding

  French entrepreneur and founder/CEO of [IONA](/companies/iona-drones), developing autonomous tilt-rotor drones for last-mile rural delivery in Ireland. Founded ...

  Founded IONA

• Evan Conrad1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of SF Compute.

  Founded SF Compute

• Even Rogers1 founding

  CEO and Co-founder of [True Anomaly](/companies/true-anomaly), a Denver-based defense-tech company building spacecraft and software systems for space superiorit...

  Founded True Anomaly

• Fabio Puglia1 founding

  Fabio Puglia is founder and president of Oversonic Robotics. He holds degrees in Physics and Mathematics (Astrophysics) from the University of Milan and previou...

  Founded Oversonic Robotics

• Farbod Farshidian1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Dynamic Creatures; former research leader at the Robotics and AI Institute, known for learning-based control work on Atlas.

  Founded Dynamic Creatures

• Federico Collarte1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of [Baraja](/companies/baraja), a Sydney-based LiDAR company that invented Spectrum-Scan™ technology — a patented wavelength-tuning approach ...

  Founded Baraja

• Frank Hasenfratz1 founding

  Founder of Linamar Corporation, building it from a small machining shop into a global manufacturing powerhouse.

  Founded Linamar Corporation

• Frank Wang1 founding

  Wang Tao, known as Frank Wang, founded DJI in 2006 from his HKUST dorm-room flight-controller work and serves as its CEO and chairman; DJI is the world's larges...

  Founded DJI

• Funke Opeke1 founding

  Funke Opeke founded MainOne in 2010, building West Africa's leading data center and subsea cable company. MainOne was acquired by Equinix in 2022 for US$320 mil...

  Founded MainOne

• Gary Lauterbach1 founding

  Co-founder of Cerebras Systems, the wafer-scale AI computing company founded in 2016.

  Founded Cerebras Systems

• Gary Marcus1 founding

  Scientist, author, and serial entrepreneur. CEO & Co-founder of [Robust.AI](/companies/robust-ai), building cognitive robot intelligence platforms. Professor em...

  Founded Robust.AI

• Geoff Howe1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Howe & Howe (founded 2001 with twin brother Mike Howe; acquired by Textron Systems in 2018); co-pioneer of tracked robotic vehicles includ...

  Founded Howe & Howe

• George Chao1 founding

  Founder and CEO of HOBOT Technology Inc., a Taiwanese robotics company established in 2010 specializing in automated window cleaning and floor cleaning robots. ...

  Founded HOBOT Technology Inc.

• Gerald Loeb1 founding

  Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Neurology at [USC Viterbi](https://viterbi.usc.edu/directory/faculty/Loeb/Gerald). Received B.A. ('69) and M.D. ('72) fr...

  Founded SynTouch

• Giorgio Valsecchi1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO Hardware of RIVR.

  Founded RIVR

• Girish Chowdhary1 founding

  Co-founder of EarthSense (maker of the TerraSentia under-canopy field robot) and a robotics/agricultural-AI professor at the University of Illinois; PhD from Ge...

  Founded EarthSense

• Girish Mathrubootham1 founding

  Founder and Executive Chairman of Freshworks, a customer engagement software company.

  Founded Freshworks

• Giuk Lee1 founding

  CEO of HUROTICS, a South Korean wearable exosuit company he founded in 2022 as a spin-off from the Assistive & Rehabilitation Robotics Lab at Chung-Ang Universi...

  Founded HUROTICS

• Gregg Hill1 founding

  Co-founder and General Partner of Parkway Venture Capital. Also Co-Founder and CEO of Hill Gray Seven (HG7). Experienced investor, entrepreneur, and operator.

  Founded Parkway Venture Capital

• Gregory Penza1 founding

  Founder and CEO of ULC Technologies (formerly ULC Robotics, founded 2001), which builds robotic, drone, and inspection systems for the energy and utility sector...

  Founded ULC Technologies

• Guilhem Herail1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Hermes Robotics, a San Francisco-based autonomous trucking startup (YC W21) developing driverless technology for commercial pavement sweeping...

  Founded Hermes Robotics

• Guillaume Lample1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Scientist of Mistral AI, a French AI company. Founded 2023, HQ Paris.

  Founded Mistral AI

• Guoxing Wang1 founding

  Founder and chairman of RingConn and a distinguished professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University whose biomedical-circuits research underpins the RingConn smart ...

  Founded RingConn

• Guy German1 founding

  Co-founder of Okibo (founded 2018), maker of autonomous drywall-finishing and painting construction robots.

  Founded Okibo

• Hamza Allawi1 founding

  Co-founder and COO of BellHopp. Previously Director at Pent United Ltd and Risk Associate at National Bank of Kuwait.

  Founded BellHopp

• Hannah Brown1 founding

  CCO and co-founder of Organifarms, leading commercial strategy for the BERRY strawberry harvesting robot.

  Founded Organifarms

• Hao Wu1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of RingConn; an academic who co-founded the smart-ring company in 2021 around Shanghai Jiao Tong University biosensing research.

  Founded RingConn

• Hasham Khan1 founding

  Co-founder of BellHopp. Previously Account Executive at Zscaler and Salesforce, with prior business development experience at a company acquired by Google.

  Founded BellHopp

• Hedwig Maes1 founding

  CEO of Agidens. Senior executive with 30+ years of international experience.

  Founded Agidens

• Henri Seydoux1 founding

  Founder, Chairman and CEO of Parrot (founded 1994).

  Founded Parrot

• Henrik Lund-Nielsen1 founding

  Founder and CEO of COBOD International, a leading supplier of 3D construction printers; a Danish serial entrepreneur.

  Founded COBOD

• Henrik Schumann-Olsen1 founding

  Co-founder of Zivid, transitioned from CEO to CTO and CMO roles. Leading technology and marketing at the Norwegian 3D vision company.

  Founded Zivid

• Herbert Rubens1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Persistent Systems, leading the company's MANET technology development for defense and government markets since 2007.

  Founded Persistent Systems

• Hiroya Masuoka1 founding

  CEO and founder of Highlanders Inc., a University of Tokyo spinout developing humanoid robots and the Kepler AI foundation model for physical intelligence. Prev...

  Founded Highlanders Inc

• Hisashi Taniguchi1 founding

  Founder and CEO of ZMP Inc., established in 2001. Leading Japanese autonomous driving and robotics company, partnering with Tokyo taxi firms.

  Founded ZMP

• Hitomi Uematsu1 founding

  Founder of SkyMagic, a drone show and entertainment company developing autonomous drone swarm choreography.

  Founded SkyMagic

• Homayoon Kazerooni1 founding

  Dr. Homayoon Kazerooni is a professor of Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley and founder of suitX (US Bionics). He is a pioneer in wearable exoskeletons, prev...

  Founded SuitX (US Bionics)

• Horst Julius Pudwill1 founding

  German-born entrepreneur; co-founded Techtronic Industries (TTI) in 1985. Served as Chairman & CEO 1985–2008, then Executive Chairman.

  Founded TTI

• Howard Huang1 founding

  Founder, Chairman and CEO of Orbbec. Trained engineer specializing in optical measurement. Founded Orbbec in 2013 and became a billionaire on China's AI robot b...

  Founded Orbbec

• Howie Li1 founding

  Founder and CEO of RayNeo, a Shenzhen-based augmented reality (AR) glasses developer incubated by TCL Electronics and spun off in 2021. He has led RayNeo throug...

  Founded RayNeo

• Hu Xiaobo1 founding

  Founder, Chairman and CEO of Shenzhen LeiShen Intelligent System Co., Ltd (LSLiDAR). Director of China Lidar Engineering.

  Founded LeiShen Intelligent System

• Ian Hunter1 founding

  Founder of indiGO Technologies; a technologist with background in autonomous systems and mobility.

  Founded indiGO Technologies

• Ilya Gelfenbeyn1 founding

  Co-founder of [Inworld AI](/companies/inworld-ai), an AI character engine for interactive NPCs. Previously co-founded and served as CEO of API.AI (later Dialogf...

  Founded Inworld AI

• Ingmar Posner1 founding

  Co-founder of Oxa (formerly Oxbotica); professor of applied AI at the University of Oxford.

  Founded Oxa

• Ioannis Antonoglou1 founding

  Co-founder of Reflection AI; previously a Google DeepMind researcher who co-created AlphaGo.

  Founded Reflection AI

• Ivan Zhang1 founding

  Co-founder of Cohere, the Toronto enterprise AI company founded in 2019.

  Founded Cohere

• Jack Chen1 founding

  CEO of Creality, a Chinese 3D printer manufacturer known for affordable consumer and professional 3D printing systems.

  Founded Creality

• Jack Clark1 founding

  Co-founder of Anthropic, former policy director at OpenAI.

  Founded Anthropic

• Jacob Zietek1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Ixian Robotics, which he announced in September 2026 to deploy intelligent robots in support of American reindustrialization. Previously an E...

  Founded Ixian Robotics

• Jagannath Raju1 founding

  Founder of Systemantics India. Builds affordable articulated industrial robots for factory floors.

  Founded Systemantics

• Jaime Fernández Fisac1 founding

  Jaime Fernández Fisac is a co-founder of Vault Robotics and an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Princeton University, where he dire...

  Founded Vault Robotics

• Jake Cannell1 founding

  Founded Vast AI

• Jakub Lubonski1 founding

  CEO of Bin-e. Polish AI-driven smart waste sorting company. IoT device that recognises, sorts, and compresses waste automatically.

  Founded Bin-e

• James Crowell1 founding

  Founder and CEO of [Crow Industries](/companies/crow-industries), a Scottsdale, Arizona-based robotics startup building the Fenris Group 2 unmanned ground vehic...

  Founded Crow Industries

• James Dyson1 founding

  Founder of Dyson Ltd, the British technology company known for vacuum cleaners, hand dryers, and air purifiers. Pioneered cyclonic separation technology.

  Founded Dyson Robotics

• James Robbins1 founding

  James Robbins is Founder at The Robbins Company; co-founder of The Robbins Company.

  Founded The Robbins Company

• Jan Becker1 founding

  CEO and Co-founder of [Apex.AI](/companies/apex-ai), a company building safety-certified software foundations for autonomous mobility (apex.OS, apex.Middleware)...

  Founded Apex.AI

• Jared Kaplan1 founding

  Co-founder of Anthropic, theoretical physicist and AI researcher.

  Founded Anthropic

• Jaret Matthews1 founding

  Aerospace engineer; founder and CEO of Venturi Astrolab, maker of the FLEX lunar rover. Previously an engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and SpaceX.

  Founded Venturi Astrolab

• Jason Kridner1 founding

  President and co-founder of BeagleBoard.org.

  Founded BeagleBoard

• Jay Crystal1 founding

  Co-founder and co-CEO of Corvex, an AI cloud provider listed on Nasdaq.

  Founded Corvex

• Jean Nehme1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Digital Surgery, a surgical technology company acquired by Medtronic.

  Founded Digital Surgery

• Jean-Philippe Fricker1 founding

  Co-founder of Cerebras Systems, the wafer-scale AI computing company founded in 2016.

  Founded Cerebras Systems

• Jeff Linnell1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Formant, a cloud robotics data platform. Previously founded Bot & Dolly (acquired by Google) and served as Director of Robotics at Google X.

  Founded Formant

• Jeff Lotz1 founding

  Co-founder of Deep Trekker (founded 2010), the underwater-ROV company.

  Founded Deep Trekker

• Jeffrey Thompson1 founding

  Founder, Chairman, CEO and President of Red Cat Holdings (NASDAQ: RCAT); became CEO in 2019 after Red Cat acquired his predecessor company Red Cat Propware.

  Founded Red Cat Holdings

• Jensen Huang1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of NVIDIA (founded 1993), whose robotics platforms (Isaac, Jetson, GR00T, Cosmos) and NVentures arm appear across the physical-AI registry. N...

  Founded NVIDIA

• Jerry Chen1 founding

  Surgeon and serial entrepreneur. Founded Brain Navi Biotechnology in 2015 to develop robotic surgical navigation technology.

  Founded Brain Navi

• Jerry Pratt1 founding

  Founding CTO of Figure AI (departed mid-2024); previously a senior research scientist at IHMC for ~20 years; later co-founded Persona AI.

  Founded Boardwalk Robotics

• Jesse Coors-Blankenship1 founding

  Co-founder and General Partner of Parkway Venture Capital, a firm investing in AI, robotics, and deep-tech. Previously founded Frustum Inc, an AI generative-des...

  Founded Parkway Venture Capital

• Jim Dukhovny1 founding

  Co-founder & CEO of Alef Aeronautics. Founded in 2015. Building first flying car with 3000+ preorders.

  Founded Alef Aeronautics

• Jim Hodson1 founding

  COO & Co-Founder of SVT Robotics; background in sales, brand, product marketing, operations, program management, and customer success with startups, Fortune 500...

  Founded SVT Robotics

• Jinhui He1 founding

  Founder of EP Equipment, a material handling equipment manufacturer.

  Founded EP Equipment

• Joe (Xu) Dong1 founding

  Co-founder & CTO of Chestnut Robotics. Building robots that can reliably use their hands in real-world environments. Previously worked on AI models at XPeng Mot...

  Founded Chestnut Robotics

• Joe Moye1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Beep, the autonomous-shuttle mobility-as-a-service operator.

  Founded Beep

• Joel Anderson1 founding

  Founder and CEO of ZeroMark. Building AI-powered defense technology for precision targeting.

  Founded ZeroMark

• John Arne Breivik1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Stingray Marine Solutions, the Norwegian salmon sea-lice laser-robotics company.

  Founded Stingray Marine Solutions

• John Hayes1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Ghost Autonomy (founded 2017), an autonomous driving software company for consumer vehicles. Previously co-founded Pure Storage (NYSE: PST...

  Founded Ghost Autonomy

• John Jiao1 founding

  Founder of OMOWAY, a technology company developing autonomous mobility solutions.

  Founded OMOWAY

• John Tenet1 founding

  Founder and CEO of CHAOS Industries. Also co-founded Epirus. Former partner at 8VC.

  Founded CHAOS Industries

• Jon Stevens1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Hot Aisle, an AMD GPU cloud.

  Founded Hot Aisle

• Jonathan Ahdoot1 founding

  Jonathan Ahdoot was appointed CEO of the newly formed 5C Group when Hypertec Cloud acquired 5C Data Centers, combining cloud computing capabilities with 5C's da...

  Founded 5C

• Jonathan King1 founding

  Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at [Atom Computing](/companies/atom-computing), leading the applications team responsible for benchmarking and use-case developme...

  Founded Atom Computing

• Jonathan Neman1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Sweetgreen. Leading the Infinite Kitchen automated restaurant initiative. Sold Spyce robotics technology to Wonder for 86.4M.

  Founded Sweetgreen

• Joris Hiddema1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of AgXeed, leading development of autonomous agricultural tractors in the Netherlands.

  Founded AgXeed

• Josef Průša1 founding

  Josef Průša is a Czech 3D printer developer and the owner of Prusa Research, which he founded in 2012. His business grew out of his work with the open-source Re...

  Founded Prusa Research

• Joseph Nelson1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Roboflow, a leading computer vision and AI platform used by over one million developers including more than half of the Fortune 100. Previ...

  Founded Roboflow

• Josh Wolfe1 founding

  Co-founded Lux Capital. $1.5B fund focused on science and defense. Portfolio includes Hadrian, Auris Health, Anduril, Eikon Therapeutics. Shrinking the gap betw...

  Founded Lux Capital

• Joshua Baer1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Capital Factory (2009–2026), Austin's most active early-stage investor and startup accelerator. An Eisenhower Fellow and Henry Crown Fellow, ...

  Founded Capital Factory

• Judy Faulkner1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Epic Systems, a healthcare software company.

  Founded Epic Systems

• Juha Vartiainen1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Global Affairs Officer at [IQM Quantum Computers](/companies/iqm-quantum-computers). PhD co-founded IQM in 2018 alongside Jan Goetz, Mikko ...

  Founded IQM Quantum Computers

• Julien Chaumond1 founding

  French engineer; co-founder and CTO of Hugging Face (founded 2016). Previously worked as an engineer within France's Ministry of Economy and at Moodstocks; hold...

  Founded Hugging Face

• Jun Ho Oh1 founding

  Oh Jun-ho is a KAIST professor who founded Rainbow Robotics in 2011 with students at the KAIST Humanoid Robot Research Center. He led the HUBO Lab at KAIST.

  Founded KAIST Humanoid Lab

• June Ho Park1 founding

  Founder of RoboCare, a South Korean care robotics company developing humanoid robots for elderly cognitive training and dementia prevention. Professor of Mechan...

  Founded RoboCare

• Jungsang Kim1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of IonQ and Pierre R. Lamond Distinguished Professor of ECE and Physics at Duke University, specializing in quantum information science and t...

  Founded IonQ

• Kai Wawrzinek1 founding

  Co-founder of Impossible Cloud.

  Founded Impossible Cloud

• Kai Xu1 founding

  Founder of Surgerii, a medical robotics company developing surgical assistance platforms.

  Founded Surgerii

• Kamal Ghaffarian1 founding

  Co-founder and Executive Chairman of Intuitive Machines (2013). Iranian-American aerospace entrepreneur based in Houston. Also founder of ILC Industries and a p...

  Founded Intuitive Machines

• Kathryn Zealand1 founding

  Founder and CEO of [Skip](/companies/skip), the company behind the MO/GO ultralight exoskeleton — the first "e-bike for walking," developed inside Arc'teryx pan...

  Founded Skip

• Kenneth Bodin1 founding

  CEO & Co-founder of Algoryx Simulation. Founded in 2007 in Umeå, Sweden. Builds AGX Dynamics physics engine for robotics simulation, digital twins, and AI contr...

  Founded Algoryx

• Kevin Albert1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Canvas. Former Boston Dynamics engineer who built the drywall finishing robot company to address construction labor shortages.

  Founded Canvas

• Kimo Johnson1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of GelSight. Commercializing MIT tactile sensing technology for robotics. Leading SBIR Phase II grant for human-like tactile sensors.

  Founded GelSight

• Kristin Ytterstad Pettersen1 founding

  Co-founder of Eelume (2015 NTNU spin-off) and a professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology; her snake-robotics research underpins Eelume's ...

  Founded Eelume

• Kuan Yen Tan1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of [IQM Quantum Computers](/companies/iqm-quantum-computers), Europe's most well-funded quantum hardware startup. PhD from the University of ...

  Founded IQM Quantum Computers

• Kuldar Väärsi1 founding

  Founded Milrem Robotics in 2013 and serves as CEO; leads development of THeMIS and Type-X unmanned ground vehicles for NATO and allied militaries.

  Founded Milrem Robotics

• Kunle Olukotun1 founding

  Co-founder of SambaNova Systems (founded 2017) and Stanford professor.

  Founded SambaNova Systems

• Kurt Neutgens1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of [Orange EV](/companies/orange-ev), a leading manufacturer of pure electric terminal trucks with 2000+ trucks deployed. Spent 17+ years at ...

  Founded Orange EV

• Kyong-Sok Chang1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Wonik Robotics, a Korean robotics manufacturer. Produces robotic arms and humanoid robots. Partner with RLWRLD for physical AI.

  Founded Wonik Robotics

• Le Anh Son1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Alpha Asimov Robotics. Associate Professor.

  Founded Alpha Asimov Robotics

• Lei Jun1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Xiaomi Corporation (founded 2010), one of China's largest consumer electronics and smartphone companies. Lei Jun launched Xiaomi's robot init...

  Founded Xiaomi

• Leo Zhou1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Nordbo Robotics.

  Founded Nordbo Robotics

• Leonard Bosack1 founding

  American computer scientist and entrepreneur who co-founded Cisco Systems in December 1984 with Sandra Lerner while both worked at Stanford University. Born in ...

  Founded Cisco Systems

• Li Deren1 founding

  Renowned Chinese photogrammetry and remote sensing scientist, academician at Wuhan University, and co-founder of Geosun Navigation. Awarded China's State Preemi...

  Founded Geosun

• Li Qingdu1 founding

  Professor with 20 years of experience in bionics and robotics. Founded DroidUp to build biomimetic humanoid robots for healthcare and companion applications.

  Founded DroidUp

• Li Yuan1 founding

  Founder & CEO of Benewake. Founded in Beijing in 2015. Leading provider of LiDAR products for autonomous driving, robotics, and IoT.

  Founded Benewake

• Lihong Qin1 founding

  Chinese business executive, Co-founder and President of NIO Inc. He works alongside founder William Li and is considered the second-in-command at the Shanghai-b...

  Founded NIO

• Lionel Flaction1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Distalmotion; from the EPFL Robotics Lab, where the company originated.

  Founded Distalmotion

• Lior Elazary1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of inVia Robotics; met co-founders Dan Parks and Randolph Voorhies during robotics PhD studies at USC; previously co-founded what became Veri...

  Founded inVia Robotics

• Lior Susan1 founding

  Founder of Eclipse Ventures. 10 robotics/physical AI participations including Bedrock Robotics, Hadrian, Mind Robotics.

  Founded Eclipse Ventures

• Liu Jincheng1 founding

  Founder and Chairman of EVE Energy, a battery technology company.

  Founded EVE Energy

• Llion Jones1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Sakana AI; former Google researcher.

  Founded Sakana AI

• Lorenz Wellhausen1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO Software of RIVR.

  Founded RIVR

• Lourdes Agapito1 founding

  Professor of computer vision at UCL; co-founded Synthesia based on her deep learning research in synthetic media.

  Founded Synthesia

• Luca Verre1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of [Prophesee](/companies/prophesee) (formerly Chronocam), a Paris-based company pioneering neuromorphic event-based vision sensors. Holds a ...

  Founded Prophesee

• Lukas Silberbauer1 founding

  Co-founder of Taurob GmbH, founded in Vienna in 2010.

  Founded Taurob

• Marc Dassler1 founding

  CEO and co-founder of Energy Robotics, an AI software platform for industrial inspection robots.

  Founded Energy Robotics

• Marc Theermann1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Dynamic Creatures; former chief strategy officer at Boston Dynamics and a former senior leader at Google.

  Founded Dynamic Creatures

• Marcio Macedo1 founding

  Co-founder and VP of Product at Ava Robotics (founded 2016); previously Director of Product Management for commercial robots at iRobot, with prior product-manag...

  Founded Ava Robotics

• Marcos Galperin1 founding

  Argentine technology entrepreneur and co-founder of [Mercado Libre](/companies/mercado-libre), Latin America’s largest publicly listed technology company. Born ...

  Founded Mercado Libre

• Maria de Lourdes Zollo1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Bee, the wearable AI assistant company. Previously worked at Squad and Twitter. Bee was acquired by Amazon in 2025.

  Founded Bee

• Maria Telleria1 founding

  CTO and co-founder of Canvas. Studied mechanical engineering at MIT and spent her career in robotics.

  Founded Canvas

• Mark Bissell1 founding

  Chairman and CEO of Bissell Inc., a fourth-generation family-owned company founded in 1876. Leads the floor cleaning company's robot vacuum product line.

  Founded Bissell

• Mark Mak1 founding

  Co-Founder and Director of Roborn Technology, a Hong Kong robotics company he founded in 2017 with Eden Lu and Professor Larry Poon. Invented the Motion Control...

  Founded Roborn

• Mark Zuckerberg1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Meta; Meta Reality Labs runs a humanoid-robotics group (which hired ex-Cruise CEO Marc Whitten) and ships Ray-Ban Meta wearables. Meta AI / F...

  Founded Meta

• Marko Bjelonic1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of RIVR (Swiss legged-delivery robotics, ex-ETH Zurich).

  Founded RIVR

• Markus Greiner1 founding

  Co-founder of QuEra. Professor of Physics at Harvard University. Expert in ultracold atomic gases and quantum optics.

  Founded QuEra Computing

• Martin Herrenknecht1 founding

  Founded Herrenknecht in 1975 with six employees and grew it into the worldwide market leader for tunnel boring machines, manufacturing the TBMs that bored the G...

  Founded Herrenknecht

• Martin Naughton1 founding

  Founder of Glen Dimplex, an Irish industrial group providing heating and appliance manufacturing.

  Founded Glen Dimplex

• Masahiro Shimizu1 founding

  Japanese entrepreneur, founder and CEO of [ZEALS](/companies/zeals). Founded ZEALS in 2014 as a freshman at Meiji University, initially pursuing robotics before...

  Founded ZEALS

• Masatoshi Kumagai1 founding

  Founder, Chairman, and Group CEO of GMO Internet Group, Inc. Chairman of GMO AI & Robotics Corporation.

  Founded GMO AI & Robotics

• Massimo Banzi1 founding

  Co-founder of Arduino, helped invent the Arduino open-source microcontroller that has inspired thousands of makers and robotics projects worldwide.

  Founded Arduino

• Mate Rimac1 founding

  Mate Rimac is founder of Verne and founder/CEO of Rimac Automobili (Rimac Group), a Croatian electric vehicle technology company. He also serves as CEO of Bugat...

  Founded Verne

• Mati Staniszewski1 founding

  Co-founded ElevenLabs in 2022 to build ultra-realistic AI voice synthesis.

  Founded ElevenLabs

• Matt Li1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Richtech Robotics (Nasdaq: RTC); led company from founding in 2019 to 2023 IPO; background in hospitality robotics and automation.

  Founded Richtech Robotics

• Matt McCue1 founding

  Co-founder and President of DZYNE Technologies, with a decade developing leading UAS platforms.

  Founded DZYNE Technologies

• Matt Mellor1 founding

  Founder of Createc (founded 2010), the Cumbria-based gamma-ray-imaging, robotics, and AI firm for nuclear environments; served as CEO before moving to CTO in No...

  Founded Createc

• Matt Sweeny1 founding

  Executive in the technology/robotics industry, linked to registry companies.

  Founded Flirtey (SkyDrop)

• Matthew Bush1 founding

  Co-founder of Hirebotics (2015) and its CEO since February 2026 (previously COO); the company makes turnkey welding and material-handling cobot systems.

  Founded Hirebotics

• Matthew Kang1 founding

  Co-founder of Revolve Surgical.

  Founded Revolve Surgical

• Matthias Biegl1 founding

  Co-founder of Taurob GmbH, founded in Vienna in 2010. Developed rugged ground robots for industrial inspection and firefighting.

  Founded Taurob

• Matthias Niessner1 founding

  Professor at TU Munich and deep learning researcher; co-developed neural rendering architecture underlying Synthesia.

  Founded Synthesia

• Max Justicz1 founding

  Co-founder of Charge Robotics (founded 2021), which builds robots that automate utility-scale solar construction; MIT alum.

  Founded Charge Robotics

• Max Ruffo1 founding

  Founded Terabee as a CERN technology partner specializing in Time-of-Flight sensor technology.

  Founded Terabee

• Max Weishaupt1 founding

  Founder of Weishaupt, a German industrial company providing heating, cooling, and energy systems.

  Founded Weishaupt

• Maximilian Oligschläger1 founding

  Maximilian Oligschläger is Co-Founder and Chief Commercial Officer of ERC System, driving commercial strategy and partnerships for the company's eVTOL platforms...

  Founded ERC System

• Melvin Schwarz1 founding

  Co-founder and Managing Director of [Nucleus Robotics](/companies/nucleus-robotics), a German humanoid robotics deployment company that exited stealth in August...

  Founded Nucleus Robotics

• Michael Balaban1 founding

  Founded Lambda

• Michael Brandstötter1 founding

  Co-founder of Cogvis GmbH. Founded Cogvis in 2007 as a spin-off from Vienna University of Technology, building AI-based fall prevention and monitoring systems f...

  Founded Cogvis

• Michael Dell1 founding

  Founder, Chairman and CEO of Dell Technologies. Founded Dell in 1984.

  Founded Dell Technologies

• Michael Howe1 founding

  Co-founder and president/chief engineer of Howe & Howe (founded 2001 with twin brother Geoff Howe); developer of tracked robotic and extreme vehicles.

  Founded Howe & Howe

• Michael James1 founding

  Co-founder of Cerebras Systems, the wafer-scale AI computing company founded in 2016.

  Founded Cerebras Systems

• Michael Zhao1 founding

  Co-founder and COO of Richtech Robotics (Nasdaq: RTC); oversees operations and product deployment for hospitality robotics fleet.

  Founded Richtech Robotics

• Michal Prywata1 founding

  Founder of Bionik Laboratories, a robotics company developing wearable exoskeletons for rehabilitation.

  Founded Bionik Laboratories

• Michele Guarnieri1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of HiBot (spun out of the Tokyo Institute of Technology / Hirose Lab), maker of snake and inspection robots; earned his PhD at Tokyo Tech und...

  Founded HiBot

• Mike Connor1 founding

  Founder, Chairman and CEO of ThayerMahan. Retired Admiral, former U.S. submarine force commander.

  Founded ThayerMahan

• Mike Coughlin1 founding

  Founder, president, and CEO of ScriptPro (founded 1994), which built the first robotic prescription-dispensing system for community and outpatient pharmacies.

  Founded ScriptPro

• Mike Howe1 founding

  Co-founder of Howe & Howe Technologies, the Waterboro, Maine-based defense and emergency response robotics company, now a Textron Systems subsidiary.

  Founded Howe & Howe

• Mike Novogratz1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Galaxy Digital, a cryptocurrency investment firm.

  Founded Galaxy Digital

• Mike Zelkind1 founding

  CEO & Co-founder of 80 Acres Farms. Founded in 2015 in Cincinnati. Raised over 50M. Controlled environment agriculture with 50M+ revenue run rate.

  Founded 80 Acres Farms

• Mikhail Fedosovsky1 founding

  Founder of the Diakont group (founded 1990), which develops robotic in-line pipe-inspection crawlers and nuclear/energy motion-control and inspection systems.

  Founded Diakont

• Mikhail Lukin1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Scientist of QuEra. Professor of Physics at Harvard University. Pioneer of Rydberg-atom quantum simulators with 200+ publications.

  Founded QuEra Computing

• Mina Fahmi1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Sandbar, a New York City-based AI hardware startup building the Stream Ring, a wearable AI smart ring for voice-based note-taking and conv...

  Founded Sandbar

• Mina Rezk1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Aeva, developing 4D LiDAR sensing technology for autonomous systems.

  Founded Aeva

• Mircea Tudor1 founding

  Founder of MB Telecom (1994) and Tudor Scan Tech SA (2014), inventor of the ROBOSCAN inspection system and three-time Grand Prix winner at the Geneva Internatio...

  Founded Roboscan

• Misha Laskin1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Reflection AI; previously led reward modeling for Google DeepMind's Gemini project.

  Founded Reflection AI

• Mohammed Hikmet1 founding

  Founder and chairman of HMI Technologies (founded 1999) and its autonomous-shuttle subsidiary Ohmio Automotion; emigrated to New Zealand from Iraq in 1996.

  Founded Ohmio

• Mr. Liu Letian1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of RoboSense.

  Founded RoboSense Technology Co., Ltd.

• Nadav Shuruk1 founding

  Co-founder of Okibo (founded 2018), the construction drywall/painting robotics company.

  Founded Okibo

• Nate Gemelke1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Technology Strategist of QuEra, shaping the company's long-term technical direction across hardware, software, and applications.

  Founded QuEra Computing

• Nathan Xu (Xu Gao)1 founding

  Nathan Xu is co-founder and CEO of Plaud AI, maker of the NotePin AI voice recorder, which he started with co-founder Charles Liu without venture capital. Plaud...

  Founded Plaud AI

• Neel Mehta1 founding

  Co-founder and Director of Asteria Aerospace, Purdue University alumni. Leading India's full-stack drone technology company.

  Founded Asteria Aerospace

• Neil Johnson1 founding

  Executive linked to registry companies.

  Founded QinetiQ

• Nguyen Tuan Anh1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Alpha Asimov Robotics. Former Grab Vietnam Country Head.

  Founded Alpha Asimov Robotics

• Nick Frosst1 founding

  Co-founder of Cohere, the Toronto enterprise AI company founded in 2019.

  Founded Cohere

• Nicola Telford1 founding

  Co-founder of Forth Engineering (Cumbria, founded 2000 with her husband Mark), a subsea and nuclear robotics/engineering firm.

  Founded Forth Engineering

• Niels Jul Jacobsen1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR, founded 2013). Led the technical development of MiR's autonomous mobile robot platform. Previously at Unive...

  Founded Mobile Industrial Robots

• Nik Shevchenko1 founding

  Founder of Based Hardware, a company developing AI-powered hardware devices.

  Founded Based Hardware

• Nikita Cheniuntai1 founding

  Co-founder of Apis Cor, the construction-3D-printing company founded in 2014.

  Founded Apis Cor

• Nikolas Bullwinkel1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Circus SE. Serial entrepreneur who previously co-founded Flink, a grocery delivery startup, before founding Circus Group.

  Founded Circus Group

• Nils Thorjussen1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Verge Aero, maker of drone-light-show systems; a veteran entertainment-technology entrepreneur (Flying Pig Systems, Element Labs).

  Founded Verge Aero

• Nimesh Parikh1 founding

  Founder of Doodle Labs, a company providing wireless communication systems for drones and robotics.

  Founded Doodle Labs

• Nir Yanushevsky1 founding

  Co-founder of Okibo (founded 2018), the construction drywall-finishing robotics company.

  Founded Okibo

• Nizan Horesh1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of RGo Robotics. Leads the technical vision for the company's AI perception engine.

  Founded RGo Robotics

• Norbert Basler1 founding

  Co-founder of Basler AG (1988). Served as CEO until 2000, now chairs the Supervisory Board.

  Founded Basler

• Octave Klaba1 founding

  Founded OVHcloud

• Omri Geller1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Run:ai, AI workload orchestration company acquired by Nvidia.

  Founded Run:ai

• Pal Liljeback1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Eelume (2015 NTNU spin-off); earned his doctorate in snake robotics under Kristin Pettersen, the basis for Eelume's all-terrain underwater...

  Founded Eelume

• Paolo Denti1 founding

  Paolo Denti is CEO and co-founder of Oversonic Robotics. He previously served as CEO of Thun SpA (2008-2018) and held executive roles at Benetton Sportsystem an...

  Founded Oversonic Robotics

• Paolo Pirjanian1 founding

  CEO of Embodied, a robotics company developing socially intelligent companion robots for emotional wellbeing.

  Founded Embodied

• Pascal Rialland1 founding

  Pascal Rialland is CEO of BALYO, a developer of robotic solutions for industrial trucks. Under him the company reported 2025 revenue up 8% to EUR 31.4 million.

  Founded Balyo

• Pasu Boonvisut1 founding

  Pasu Boonvisut is Co-founder at HG Robotics; co-founder of HG Robotics.

  Founded HG Robotics

• Patrick Esser1 founding

  Co-founder of Black Forest Labs; former Stability AI researcher on Stable Diffusion.

  Founded Black Forest Labs

• Patrick Sobalvarro1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Veo Robotics, a company developing safe human-robot collaboration systems for industrial manufacturing. Previously served as the first Ent...

  Founded Veo Robotics

• Paul Phillips1 founding

  Paul Phillips is CEO of Blueprint Lab (now Reach Robotics), a subsea robotics company he started with Mark Sproule in late 2016. He is a University of Sydney me...

  Founded Reach Robotics

• Paul Santos1 founding

  Managing Partner and Co-founder of Wavemaker Partners. Previously co-founded six companies and sold three. Started his career at Procter & Gamble. Appointed to ...

  Founded Wavemaker Partners

• Paulo Debenest1 founding

  Co-founder of HiBot (Tokyo Tech spin-off, 2004); a mechanical engineer who began at Embraer in Brazil before pursuing robotics at the Tokyo Institute of Technol...

  Founded HiBot

• Pete Florence1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Generalist AI (2024). Former senior research scientist at Google DeepMind; led research behind RT-2 (robotic control from vision-language ...

  Founded Generalist AI

• Peter Coratola Jr.1 founding

  Founder and CEO of EASE Logistics, a logistics and supply chain company.

  Founded EASE Logistics

• Peter Francis1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Revolve Surgical. Background in mechatronics engineering and surgical robotics.

  Founded Revolve Surgical

• Peter Hébert1 founding

  Co-founder and Managing Partner of Lux Capital. B AUM venture firm investing in AI, robotics, automation, defense, and deep tech.

  Founded Lux Capital

• Peter Ho1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of HOPE Technik. Founded the Singapore engineering firm in 2006 with three NUS schoolmates.

  Founded HOPE Technik

• Peter Ludwig1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Applied Intuition.

  Founded Applied Intuition

• Peter Meusel AgXeed1 founding

  CTO of AgXeed, developing autonomous agricultural robots.

  Founded AgXeed

• Peter Soetens1 founding

  Co-founded Intermodalics in 2010, developing robotics and perception software.

  Founded Intermodalics

• Peter Thiel1 founding

  Co-founder of PayPal, Palantir. Founders Fund led Hadrian Series C, backs Skild AI, Physical Intelligence, and many robotics/defense companies.

  Founded Founders Fund

• Philip Norman1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Ross Robotics (founded 2015); conceived the Robosynthesis modular, reconfigurable ground-robot platform.

  Founded Ross Robotics

• Philippe Laffont1 founding

  Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Coatue Management, a global technology-focused investment firm managing tens of billions in assets. MIT computer science...

  Founded Coatue

• Phyl Schnyder1 founding

  Co-founder of Apellix, the aerial-robotics company making spray-painting and coating drones; joined as co-founder in 2015.

  Founded Apellix

• Pierre Barbier1 founding

  Founder and CEO Andrew Alliance (2010-); built intelligent pipetting robot with cloud-connected software for reproducible lab workflows.

  Founded Andrew Alliance

• Pol Duthoit1 founding

  Co-founder of SolarCleano (founded 2017), maker of robotic solar-panel cleaning systems.

  Founded SolarCleano

• Pony Ma1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Tencent. Tencent has 5 robotics/physical AI participations including Unitree Robotics, Even Realities.

  Founded Tencent Holdings

• Pranav Manpuria1 founding

  Indian entrepreneur based in Bangalore, founder and CEO of Flux Auto (founded 2017), which develops autonomous driving technology for commercial trucks. Holds a...

  Founded Flux Auto

• Prof. Kyoungchul Kong1 founding

  Founder & CEO of Angel Robotics. Professor in South Korea. Founded the exoskeleton company in 2014/2017. Won bronze medal at the first Cybathlon.

  Founded Angel Robotics

• Prof. Mikko Möttönen1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Scientist at [IQM Quantum Computers](/companies/iqm-quantum-computers) and Academy Professor of Quantum Technology at Aalto University and ...

  Founded IQM Quantum Computers

• Pulkit Gaur1 founding

  Founder and CTO of Gridbots Technologies. TED Fellow. Leading India-based robotics and machine vision company.

  Founded Gridbots Technologies

• Qasar Younis1 founding

  Founder of Applied Intuition, a Silicon Valley company providing simulation software for autonomous vehicle development.

  Founded Applied Intuition

• Qi Xiangdong1 founding

  Co-founder and President of 360 Security Technology, overseeing the company's security product development.

  Founded 360 Security Technology

• Rafael López1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief R&D Officer of Robotnik Automation S.L.L. Founded the company with Roberto Guzmán in 2002. Leads research and development in mobile service...

  Founded Robotnik Automation

• Rahul Nambiar1 founding

  CEO & Co-founder of Botsync. Singapore-based robotics startup founded 2017, NTU graduates. Builds heavy-duty autonomous mobile robots for supply chains.

  Founded Botsync

• Rajat Kulshrestha1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Space Machines Company, an Australian startup providing in-space transportation and orbital logistics services. Trained as an aerospace en...

  Founded Space Machines Company

• Randolph Voorhies1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of inVia Robotics; a USC robotics PhD who co-founded the goods-to-person warehouse-robotics company.

  Founded inVia Robotics

• Randy Brouckman1 founding

  CEO and Co-Founder of EdgeConneX, a global edge data center provider.

  Founded EdgeConneX

• Ray Sidler1 founding

  CEO and Co-founder of DataVerge, a carrier-neutral data center in Brooklyn.

  Founded DataVerge

• Raymond Tonsing1 founding

  Board member of Saronic; founder and Managing Partner of Caffeinated Capital, which led Saronic's Series A.

  Founded Caffeinated Capital

• Ren Bin1 founding

  Founder, CEO and General Manager of JOUAV, one of the world's top 5 UAV manufacturers, developing VTOL fixed-wing drones since 2010.

  Founded JOUAV

• Ren Ito1 founding

  Co-founder and Chairman of Sakana AI; previously held executive roles at Mercari and Stability AI.

  Founded Sakana AI

• Rich Lindner1 founding

  Rich Lindner is President of Envirosight, a business formed in 2002 by Everest VIT veterans to supply video pipeline inspection equipment to the environmental m...

  Founded Envirosight

• Rick Hendrick1 founding

  Founder and owner of Hendrick Motorsports (NASCAR most successful organization with 15 Cup Series championships and 320+ race wins) and Hendrick Automotive Grou...

  Founded Hendrick Technical Solutions

• Ritesh Ragavender1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Reflex Robotics, building affordable (0k) wheeled humanoid robots for logistics and manufacturing. Piloting with GXO Logistics.

  Founded Reflex Robotics

• Robert Dahlstrom1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Apellix; began building power-wash and spray-painting drone prototypes in 2013-14, founded the company in 2015, and patented its software-con...

  Founded Apellix

• Robert Little1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of ATI Industrial Automation, the world-leading developer of robotic end-effectors and tool changers. Founded the company in 1989.

  Founded ATI Industrial Automation

• Robert Schena1 founding

  Co-founded Rajant Corporation in 2001, pioneering Kinetic Mesh networking and BreadCrumb wireless nodes for defense, mining, and autonomous vehicle applications...

  Founded Rajant Corporation

• Robert Shi1 founding

  Robert Shi is a co-founder of Vault Robotics focused on business operations and prototype development. He received his bachelor's and M.Eng. in Electrical and C...

  Founded Vault Robotics

• Roberto Guzmán1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Robotnik Automation S.L.L. Founded the company in 2002 in Valencia, Spain. Leads the company's strategy and business development in mobile...

  Founded Robotnik Automation

• Robin Khuda1 founding

  Robin Khuda founded AirTrunk in 2015 and built it into the largest hyperscale data center operator in Asia-Pacific, culminating in Blackstone's US$16B acquisiti...

  Founded AirTrunk

• Robin Murphy1 founding

  Texas A&M professor and founder of the Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue; pioneer of disaster robotics

  Founded Texas Instruments

• Robin Rombach1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Black Forest Labs; co-creator of latent diffusion and Stable Diffusion.

  Founded Black Forest Labs

• Robin Zeng (Zeng Yuqun)1 founding

  CEO of CATL (Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Limited), the world's largest battery manufacturer for electric vehicles.

  Founded CATL

• Robin Zeng Yuqun1 founding

  Founder, Chairman & CEO of CATL. Founded in 2011. Chinese billionaire. CATL has 37.5% global EV battery market share, 15 million EVs. Leading sodium-ion and sol...

  Founded CATL

• Ronnie Vuine1 founding

  Co-founder of [Micropsi Industries](/companies/micropsi-industries), a Berlin-based robotics software company building MIRAI, an AI robot control system that gi...

  Founded Micropsi Industries

• Roy Mann1 founding

  Co-founder and Co-CEO of monday.com (NASDAQ: MNDY) since 2012 and a member of the board of directors. Co-founded monday.com (then dapulse) with Eran Zinman in 2...

  Founded monday.com

• Ruben Smits1 founding

  Co-founded Intermodalics in 2010 as CTO, developing robotics and perception software.

  Founded Intermodalics

• Rustom Jehangir1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Blue Robotics (founded 2014), the marine-robotics company behind the BlueROV2 and open-source underwater thrusters, sensors, and software.

  Founded Blue Robotics

• Ryan Kempley1 founding

  Founder and CEO of ISS Aerospace, a Newbury, UK-based company developing autonomous unmanned aerial systems for defense and commercial applications. Founded ISS...

  Founded ISS Aerospace

• Sam Macdonald1 founding

  Co-founder and president of Deep Trekker (founded 2010 with Jeff Lotz), the Canadian maker of portable underwater ROVs.

  Founded Deep Trekker

• Sam McCandlish1 founding

  Co-founder of Anthropic.

  Founded Anthropic

• Samil Ozden1 founding

  CEO and co-founder of Milvus Robotics, developing autonomous mobile robots for warehouse and industrial material handling.

  Founded Milvus Robotics

• Samuel Boucher1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Kinova Robotics; building lightweight robotic arms and assistive robotic platforms for accessibility

  Founded University of Toronto Robotics Institute

• Sander Sebastian Agur1 founding

  CEO of Clevon, an Estonian autonomous delivery vehicle company developing electric cargo rovers for last-mile logistics.

  Founded Clevon

• Scott Peters1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Construction Robotics. Expert in robotics and construction technology.

  Founded Construction Robotics

• Scott Wu1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Cognition, maker of the Devin AI software engineer.

  Founded Cognition

• Sean Lie1 founding

  Co-founder of Cerebras Systems, the wafer-scale AI computing company founded in 2016.

  Founded Cerebras Systems

• Selcuk Bayraktar1 founding

  CTO Baykar (2004-); MIT aerospace engineer; architect of Bayraktar TB2 and Akinci combat drones; son-in-law of Turkish President Erdogan.

  Founded Baykar

• Seth Demsey1 founding

  Co-founder and co-CEO of Corvex, an AI cloud provider listed on Nasdaq.

  Founded Corvex

• Shigeo Hirose1 founding

  Tokyo Institute of Technology robotics professor and pioneer of snake and legged robots; co-founder and director of HiBot (spun out of Tokyo Tech in 2004).

  Founded HiBot

• Shikha Virmani1 founding

  Founder and Managing Director of Cyborg Robotics Academy.

  Founded Cyborg Robotics

• Shlomo Ben Haim1 founding

  Israeli-born professor of medicine, serial entrepreneur, and co-founder of Motorika (2004), a robotic rehabilitation solutions company. Holds faculty appointmen...

  Founded Motorika

• Shuo Yang1 founding

  Co-Founder and CTO of Mondo Robotics. Former Tesla Optimus Staff Control Engineer. CMU Robotics PhD. Building Beni, an all-terrain camera robot inspired by a pr...

  Founded Mondo Robotics

• Sophon Somlor1 founding

  Co-founder & CPO of XELA Robotics; Dr.Eng from Waseda University (2016); develops capacitive-based 3-axis tactile sensors; 22 published papers.

  Founded XELA Robotics

• Soroush Salehian1 founding

  CEO and co-founder of Aeva Technologies, developing 4D LiDAR-on-a-chip technology for autonomous driving and robotics.

  Founded Aeva

• Sreekanth Reddy Vajrala1 founding

  Founder and CEO of [FarmRobo Technologies](/companies/farmrobo-technologies), a Hyderabad-based agritech startup building affordable autonomous farm robots for ...

  Founded FarmRobo Technologies

• Srinivas K Pai1 founding

  Co-Founder & CEO of Pace Robotics. Civil engineer with 15+ years construction project management experience. Heads customer and business development.

  Founded Pace

• Stefan Vilsmeier1 founding

  German entrepreneur and self-taught computer programmer. Founded Brainlab in 1989 in Munich and has been its CEO since inception. Also CEO of Snke Holding SE (f...

  Founded Brainlab

• Steffen Tjerrild1 founding

  Co-founder and COO/CFO of Synthesia.

  Founded Synthesia

• Stéphane Lavallée1 founding

  Founder and Chairman of eCential Robotics (formerly Surgivisio), a Grenoble-based surgical robotics company developing an open platform unifying real-time navig...

  Founded eCential Robotics

• Stephen Balaban1 founding

  Founded Lambda

• Steve Altemus1 founding

  Co-founder, President and CEO of Intuitive Machines (2013). Former NASA Johnson Space Center deputy director. Led the company from founding through the IM-1 Ody...

  Founded Intuitive Machines

• Steve King1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Dragonfly AI, an AI-powered creative optimization platform.

  Founded Dragonfly AI

• Steve Saunders1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Robotics Plus, acquired by Yamaha Motor in 2025. New Zealand agricultural technology entrepreneur.

  Founded Robotics Plus

• Steven Hao1 founding

  Co-founder of Cognition.

  Founded Cognition

• Sunil Gupta1 founding

  Founded Yotta Data Services

• Takanori Shibata1 founding

  Inventor of the PARO therapeutic seal robot, which he began developing at Japan's AIST in 1993; chief senior research scientist at AIST.

  Founded PARO Robots

• Tao Zhi1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Yunji Technology, leading the Beijing-based hotel service robot company backed by Tencent, Alibaba, and Lenovo.

  Founded Yunji Technology

• Teo Swee Ann1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Espressif Systems, an IoT chip company known for ESP32.

  Founded Espressif Systems

• Theodor Stiebel1 founding

  Founder of Stiebel Eltron, establishing the company in 1924 to produce electric water heaters.

  Founded Stiebel Eltron

• Thibault Boutonnet1 founding

  Founder and CEO of [SIZA Robotics](/companies/siza-robotics), a French agricultural robotics company he founded in 2020. He leads development of the TOOGO elect...

  Founded SIZA Robotics

• Thomas Laffont1 founding

  Co-founder of Coatue Management, the technology-focused investment management firm founded in 1999 with his brother Philippe Laffont. Leads Coatue's private equ...

  Founded Coatue

• Thomas Visti1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR, founded 2013), Danish AMR manufacturer based in Odense. MiR pioneered autonomous mobile robots for internal...

  Founded Mobile Industrial Robots

• Thomas Wolf1 founding

  French researcher and entrepreneur; co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Hugging Face (founded 2016). Holds a Ph.D. in statistical/quantum physics from Sorbo...

  Founded Hugging Face

• Thuc Vu1 founding

  CEO and co-founder of OhmniLabs. Previously founded Katango (acquired by Google) and Tappy (acquired by Weeby.co).

  Founded OhmniLabs

• Tibor Fecko1 founding

  Slovak mechanical engineer who co-invented the TwinSpin® high-precision reduction gear in the early 1990s alongside Bartolomej Janek. Co-founded Spinea s.r.o. i...

  Founded Spinea

• Tim Bucher1 founding

  Co-founder & CEO of Agtonomy, a California-based company developing autonomous software for tractors and farm implements. UC Davis electrical engineering alum (...

  Founded Agtonomy

• Tim Crain1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Intuitive Machines (2013). Former NASA engineer. Leads technical development of the Nova-C lunar lander and future lu...

  Founded Intuitive Machines

• Tim Steiner1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Ocado Group (founded 2000), UK online grocery and robotic warehouse automation company. Led Ocado from startup to a FTSE 100 company; pion...

  Founded Ocado Group

• Timothée Lacroix1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Mistral AI, a French AI company. Founded 2023, HQ Paris.

  Founded Mistral AI

• Tito Pradhono Tomo1 founding

  Co-founder & CTO of XELA Robotics; M.Eng from Waseda University (2015); developed uSkin tactile sensor; won awards at ICRA2017 and Monozukuri Hardware Cup 2019.

  Founded XELA Robotics

• Tobias Rietzler1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of robominds. Electrical engineer passionate about robotics innovations.

  Founded robominds

• Todd He1 founding

  CEO of OMOWAY, a technology company developing autonomous mobility solutions.

  Founded OMOWAY

• Todd Roberts1 founding

  CEO and Co-Founder of ATDev (Assistive Technology Development), a Berkeley-born startup creating AI-enabled robotic mobility and rehabilitation devices. Co-foun...

  Founded Assistive Technology Development

• Tom Brown1 founding

  Co-founder of Anthropic, known for his work on GPT-3 at OpenAI.

  Founded Anthropic

• Tom McCarthy1 founding

  Co-founder of Motiv Space Systems (founded 2014), a Pasadena space-robotics company specializing in robotic arms, motor controllers, and mechanisms.

  Founded Motiv Space Systems

• Tom Wagner1 founding

  Tom Wagner is founder and CEO of Berkshire Grey and former CTO of iRobot. His earlier career included a professorship at the University of Maine and research at...

  Founded Berkshire Grey

• Tomo Ohno1 founding

  Founder of Kudan, a computer vision and SLAM technology company.

  Founded Kudan

• Tomotaka Takahashi1 founding

  Tomotaka Takahashi founded Robo Garage in 2003, the first venture on the Kyoto University campus, on graduating from its engineering science school. He is a Res...

  Founded Osaka University Hosoda Lab

• Tony Norman1 founding

  Co-Founder, President and CEO of Innovation First International (VEX Robotics). Inventor with more than 60 patents worldwide in educational and competitive robo...

  Founded VEX Robotics

• Tony Zhang1 founding

  Co-founder of Tencent Holdings.

  Founded Tencent Holdings

• Toru Nishikawa1 founding

  CEO and co-founder of Preferred Networks, a Japanese AI company focused on physical-world problems. Founded 2014, HQ Tokyo.

  Founded Preferred Networks, Inc.

• Tuo Shi1 founding

  Co-Founder and CEO of ZVISION Technologies.

  Founded Zvision Technologies

• Vaidy Narayanan1 founding

  Co-Founder of Bionic Yantra, a Bengaluru-based medical robotics company developing exoskeletons for rehabilitation of paralytic patients. Co-founded Bionic Yant...

  Founded Bionic Yantra

• Victor Riparbelli1 founding

  CEO & Co-founder of Synthesia; led the company to become Britain's largest generative AI firm at $4B valuation.

  Founded Synthesia

• Vijay Kodali1 founding

  Co-founder of Nala Robotics, the autonomous-kitchen / robot-chef company.

  Founded Nala Robotics

• Vinay Shet1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Teleo, which retrofits heavy equipment into supervised-autonomous machines; previously director of product for Lyft's self-driving program...

  Founded Teleo

• Vinod Khosla1 founding

  Co-founder of Sun Microsystems. Founded Khosla Ventures 2004. ~$15B AUM. First investor in OpenAI, Impossible Foods. Led Waabi $750M, backed Clair Health, Nomag...

  Founded Khosla Ventures

• Vlad Lebedev1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Quasi Robotics. Frederick, MD based AMR company for pharmaceutical and biotech facilities.

  Founded Quasi Robotics

• Vladan Vuletić1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of QuEra. Lester Wolfe Professor of Physics at MIT. His research on optical tweezer control of atom arrays is foundational to QuEra's platfor...

  Founded QuEra Computing

• Volkmar Uhlig1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Ghost Autonomy. PhD in Computer Science from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany). Previously co-founder and CTO of Adello, archite...

  Founded Ghost Autonomy

• Walden Yan1 founding

  Co-founder of Cognition.

  Founded Cognition

• Wally Zheng (Zheng Weifeng)1 founding

  Executive linked to registry companies.

  Founded PowerVision

• Wang Chuanfu1 founding

  Chinese chemist and billionaire entrepreneur (b. 1966, Wuwei County, Anhui). Founder, Chairman and CEO of BYD Company Limited, which he established in February ...

  Founded BYD Company Limited

• Wang Wei1 founding

  Founder (1993), Chairman & CEO of SF Holding. Billionaire.

  Founded SF Express

• Wang Xing1 founding

  CEO of Meituan. Meituan led Even Realities $150M Pre-B round.

  Founded Meituan

• Wayne Huang1 founding

  Founder, chairman and CEO of Zepp Health (formerly Huami); founded Anhui Huami in 2013, powered Xiaomi's Mi Band, and launched the Amazfit/Zepp brands before th...

  Founded Zepp Health (Amazfit)

• Wei Ding1 founding

  Co-founder & CEO of Noble Machines. Former engineer from Apple, SpaceX, NASA, and Caltech. Founded Noble Machines in 2024 to build general-purpose humanoid robo...

  Founded Noble Machines

• Will Roberts1 founding

  Co-CEO of IREN, a bitcoin mining and AI infrastructure company. Founded 2018, HQ Sydney, Australia.

  Founded IREN

• William Li1 founding

  Chinese entrepreneur and co-founder/CEO of NIO Inc. (NYSE: NIO), a smart electric vehicle company headquartered in Shanghai, which he co-founded in November 201...

  Founded NIO

• William Theron1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Deep Atomic, a nuclear SMR developer for data centers.

  Founded Deep Atomic

• William Wei Huang1 founding

  Founder and CEO of GDS Holdings, a leading Chinese data center provider listed on NASDAQ (2016) and HKEX (2020).

  Founded GDS Holdings

• Wu Changzheng1 founding

  Founder of MagicLab, a Chinese technology company developing consumer electronics and robotics.

  Founded MagicLab

• Xavier Orr1 founding

  CEO & Co-founder of Advanced Navigation. Founded the Sydney-based AI navigation company in 2011 with Chris Shaw to commercialize university thesis on AI-based i...

  Founded Advanced Navigation

• Xia Zuoquan1 founding

  Non-executive director of UBTECH Robotics and an early angel investor in the company.

  Founded BYD Company Limited

• Xu Chenye1 founding

  Co-founder of Tencent Holdings.

  Founded Tencent Holdings

• Xu Li1 founding

  Founded SenseTime

• Yi Huang1 founding

  Founder of RoboParty, the Shanghai humanoid robotics company behind the open-source RPO and RP1 platforms.

  Founded RoboParty

• Yoichi Takamoto1 founding

  Founder, president, and CEO of tmsuk (established January 2000), a Japanese service-robotics company building practical robots for healthcare, rescue, construct...

  Founded Tmsuk

• Yong Shin Leong1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Augmentus, developing no-code robot programming platforms.

  Founded Augmentus

• Yoshiyuki Sankai1 founding

  Professor at University of Tsukuba Graduate School of Systems & Information Engineering. Founded Cyberdyne in 2004 to commercialize the HAL exoskeleton he first...

  Founded Cyberdyne

• Young-Jin Kim1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Tesollo, a South Korean robotic hand and gripper company established in 2019. Former Samsung Electronics C-Lab alumni.

  Founded Tesollo

• Youssef Saleh1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Ava Robotics (founded 2016); previously SVP and GM of the Remote Presence Business Unit at iRobot, and VP/GM of Telepresence & Vertical So...

  Founded Ava Robotics

• Yu Yunbo1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Kenqing Technology (founded 2015). Born 1973, holds a Master of Engineering from HUST (1997) and is a Senior Engineer. Previously co-founded ...

  Founded Kenqing Technology

• Yuhang Hu1 founding

  Founder and CEO of AheadForm. Launched the company in Shanghai in 2024 at age 26 while enrolled in a Columbia doctoral program. PhD in Robotics and Machine Lear...

  Founded AheadForm

• Yuval Bachar1 founding

  Founder and CEO of ECL (EdgeCloudLink), a hydrogen-powered modular data center company.

  Founded ECL (EdgeCloudLink)

• Zeng Liqing1 founding

  Co-founder of Tencent Holdings.

  Founded Tencent Holdings

• Zhang Yanliang1 founding

  Founder, CEO, and Chief Scientist at Weston Robot. Singapore-based deep tech robotics entrepreneur.

  Founded Weston Robot

• Zhao Yue1 founding

  Founder and CEO of SEER Robotics. Admitted to the mixed class of Chu Kochen Honors College, Zhejiang University.

  Founded SEER Robotics

• Zhaojian Li1 founding

  Professor at Michigan State University, co-founder of AgriDynamics Robotics. 2026 Innovation of the Year awardee at MSU.

  Founded Michigan State University

• Zhi Tao1 founding

  Zhi Tao is founder, chairperson and president of Yunji Technology, a hotel service robotics company listed in Hong Kong. She graduated from Xi'an Jiaotong Unive...

  Founded Yunji Technology

• Zhou Hongyi1 founding

  Founder, Chairman and CEO of 360 Security Technology. Leading the company's pivot to AI-powered cybersecurity and advocating for humanoid robot adoption in Chin...

  Founded 360 Security Technology

• Ziv Kuniz1 founding

  Co-CEO and CTO of MediTouch, an Israeli rehabilitation technology company he co-founded in October 2004 with Giora Ein-Zvi and Avraham Cohen. With 20+ years in ...

  Founded MediTouch

• Ziyu Shen1 founding

  Ziyu Shen is Chairman and CEO of ECARX, which he co-founded in 2017 with Eric Li (Li Shufu), founder of Geely. ECARX develops full-stack automotive technology, ...

  Founded ECARX

• Aaron Edsinger1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Hello Robot, founded in 2017 with Charlie Kemp. He previously served as a Director of Robotics at Google, and two of his earlier companies...

  Founded Hello Robot

• Aaron Zhang1 founding

  Founder and CEO of A2Z Drone Delivery, Inc., an American aerospace and engineering company advancing commercial UAV delivery. Co-founded A2Z as a student projec...

  Founded A2Z Drone Delivery

• Adam London1 founding

  Co-founder of Astra Space.

  Founded Astra Space

• Adrian Dalsey1 founding

  Co-founder of DHL.

  Founded DHL Group

• Ahmed Haider1 founding

  Co-founder of Flirtey, the drone delivery company founded in Australia in 2013 with Matt Sweeny and Tom Bass. Flirtey later relocated to Reno, Nevada, and compl...

  Founded Flirtey (SkyDrop)

• Akio Morita1 founding

  Co-founder of Sony Corporation, built it into a global electronics and entertainment conglomerate.

  Founded Sony Corporation

• Akio Nitori1 founding

  Founder and Representative Director & Chairperson (CEO) of Nitori Holdings Co., Ltd. Founded the company in 1967 in Sapporo, Japan.

  Founded Nitori Holdings

• Akira Yamada1 founding

  Founder of Daikin Industries, Ltd. (originally Osaka Metalworking Industries) in 1924

  Founded Daikin Industries

• Ákos Tar1 founding

  Co-founded OptoForce in 2012. Pioneer in optical force/torque sensors for robots.

  Founded OptoForce

• Al Avery1 founding

  Co-founder of Equinix.

  Founded Equinix

• Alan Ng1 founding

  Founder and CEO of QuikBot Technologies.

  Founded QuikBot Technologies

• Albert Butz1 founding

  Founder of Honeywell.

  Founded Honeywell International

• Albert Fezer1 founding

  Co-founder of Festo.

  Founded Festo

• Alberto Verteramo1 founding

  Founder and CEO of [Liftya](/companies/lifya), an Italian medical exoskeleton company developing the LiftYa device for lower-limb mobility assistance. A biomedi...

  Founded Liftya

• Albie Brown1 founding

  CEO and Co-founder of Buoyant Aero (YC S21), developing autonomous cargo airships for middle-mile delivery. Previously co-founder and CEO of Kyoo Inc. (acquired...

  Founded Buoyant Aero

• Alex Yurkowski1 founding

  Executive in the technology sector, linked to registry companies.

  Founded ClickUp

• Alexander Fang1 founding

  Co-founded Aurrion in 2008 as CEO, developing silicon photonics for data center networking. UCSB alum who spun out research from Professor John Bowers' lab.

  Founded Aurrion

• Alexander Graham Bell1 founding

  Founder of AT&T.

  Founded AT&T

• Alexander Hamilton1 founding

  Founding father. Founded Bank of New York in 1784 predecessor of BNY Mellon.

  Founded BNY Mellon

• Alexander Koch1 founding

  Alexander Koch is the CEO and Co-founder of Tau Robotics. He holds an MSc in Computer Science from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and is a Z Fellow an...

  Founded Tau Robotics

• Alexandr Wang1 founding

  Co-founder and former CEO of Scale AI; joined Meta in June 2025 to lead its superintelligence work.

  Founded Scale AI

• Alexandra DaCosta1 founding

  CEO of Aspen Creek Digital Corporation (ACDC), a renewable Bitcoin mining and high-performance computing company.

  Founded Aspen Creek Digital Corporation

• Alfred S. Harris1 founding

  Alfred S. Harris was the founder of the Harris Automatic Press Company in Niles, Ohio, in 1895 — the predecessor organization that grew over more than a century...

  Founded L3Harris

• Allen A Dicke1 founding

  Co-founder of Crown Equipment Corporation.

  Founded Crown Equipment

• Allen Huang1 founding

  Founder of Yarbo, founded in 2015. Robotics engineer simplifying outdoor maintenance.

  Founded Yarbo

• Amadeo Pietro Giannini1 founding

  Founder of Bank of Italy later Bank of America.

  Founded Bank of America

• Amin Chabi1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Lunasa Space, a London-based space-tech startup developing autonomous rendezvous and proximity operations (RPO) solutions for in-orbit servic...

  Founded Lúnasa Space

• Amit Goffer1 founding

  Founder of ReWalk Robotics and inventor of its wearable exoskeleton, which he developed after an accident left him quadriplegic. He was CEO from 2001 to 2012, t...

  Founded Lifeward

• Amory Houghton Sr1 founding

  Founder of Corning Incorporated.

  Founded Corning

• Anders Forslund1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Heart Aerospace. Leading the team electrifying regional flight.

  Founded Heart Aerospace

• Andre Abrami1 founding

  Co-founder of Automni.

  Founded Automni

• Andrew Ng1 founding

  Co-founder of Coursera.

  Founded Coursera

• Andy Berliner1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Amys Kitchen. Reassumed CEO role in 2025.

  Founded Amy's Kitchen

• Andy Jassy1 founding

  CEO of Amazon (not a founder; succeeded Jeff Bezos); Amazon owns the Zoox robotaxi business, hired the Covariant founders via a 2024 license-and-hire, invests v...

  Founded Amazon Web Services (with STACK Infrastructure)

• Andy Jassy1 founding

  Founder of AWS (Amazon Web Services).

  Founded AWS

• Andy von Flotow1 founding

  Founder of AVID LLC, an aerospace engineering and simulation company.

  Founded Insitu

• Anita Verma-Lallian1 founding

  CEO and Founder of Arizona Land Consulting.

  Founded Arizona Land Consulting

• Anthony Levesque1 founding

  Anthony Levesque is CEO of AAIM Data Centers, bringing over two decades of leadership in the data center industry; he previously served as Vice President at Bit...

  Founded AAIM Data Centers

• Anthony Louie Velasco1 founding

  CEO of Atlas Compute, developing AI data center campuses.

  Founded Atlas Compute

• Antonio Li1 founding

  Antonio Li is the founder of Nori Robotics, building affordable bimanual robots for household tasks. Previously published research on low-cost robot platforms.

  Founded Nori Robotics

• Arij van der Lely1 founding

  Co-founder (with his brother Cornelis) of Lely in 1948 in Maassluis, the Dutch agricultural-machinery and dairy-robotics company. Deceased.

  Founded Lely

• Arijit Sengupta1 founding

  Co-founder of antuit.ai.

  Founded antuit.ai

• Aroosh Thillainathan1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Ardent Data Centers.

  Founded Ardent Data Centers

• Arthur Blank1 founding

  Co-founder of The Home Depot.

  Founded The Home Depot

• Arthur del Prado1 founding

  Co-founder of ASML Holding (founded 1984). Founder and CEO of ASM International who proposed the joint venture with Philips that became ASML.

  Founded ASML Holding

• Arthur J. Schmitt1 founding

  Founder of Amphenol (founded 1932 in Chicago). First product was a tube socket for radio tubes.

  Founded Amphenol

• Arthur Taubman1 founding

  Founder of Advance Auto Parts (founded 1932 in Roanoke Virginia).

  Founded Advance Auto Parts

• Assar Gabrielsson1 founding

  Co-founder of Volvo Group.

  Founded Volvo Group

• August Claas1 founding

  German entrepreneur who founded CLAAS in 1913 in Herzebrock, Germany, initially manufacturing straw binders with his brothers Franz, Bernhard, and Theo. The fam...

  Founded CLAAS

• Aurélien Cord1 founding

  CTO and co-founder of Stanley Robotics. Developed autonomous outdoor valet parking technology deployed at Lyon Airport.

  Founded Stanley Robotics

• Aviv Tzidon1 founding

  Israeli entrepreneur and co-founder of Eviation Aircraft in 2015, the company developing the Alice all-electric commuter aircraft. Also founder and Chairman of ...

  Founded Eviation Aircraft

• Axel Wenner-Gren1 founding

  Swedish entrepreneur (1881–1961) who founded Electrolux in 1919. Pioneered the domestic vacuum cleaner by adapting industrial models for home use, building Elec...

  Founded Electrolux

• Baofang Jin1 founding

  Founder and Chairman of JA Solar.

  Founded JA Solar

• Barry Babcock1 founding

  Co-founder of Charter Communications.

  Founded Charter Communications (Spectrum)

• Barry Bentley1 founding

  Co-founder of Bentley Systems.

  Founded Bentley Systems

• Behrokh Khoshnevis1 founding

  Founder and Chairman Emeritus of Contour Crafting Corporation, pioneer of construction-scale 3D printing and inventor of Contour Crafting technology.

  Founded Contour Crafting

• Ben Amor1 founding

  Co-founder of Kiwi Robotics.

  Founded Kiwi Robotics

• Ben Brigham1 founding

  Founder of Atlas Energy Solutions.

  Founded Atlas Energy Solutions

• Ben Claman1 founding

  CEO and Co-founder of Buoyant Aero (YC S21), developing autonomous cargo airships for middle-mile delivery. MIT mechanical engineer from Anchorage, Alaska; buil...

  Founded Buoyant Aero

• Ben Horowitz1 founding

  Co-founder and general partner of Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). Previously co-founder and CEO of Opsware (formerly Loudcloud), acquired by Hewlett-Packard for $1....

  Founded Andreessen Horowitz

• Ben Scott-Robinson1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Small Robot Company, a UK agricultural robotics startup developing autonomous farming robots for precision agriculture.

  Founded Small Robot Company

• Ben Uretsky1 founding

  Co-founder of DigitalOcean and its CEO from 2011 to 2018; earlier co-founded ServerStack.

  Founded DigitalOcean

• Benjamin Holt1 founding

  Co-founder of Caterpillar Inc.

  Founded Caterpillar

• Benno Wimmer1 founding

  Founder of Nanotec Electronic GmbH & Co. KG in 1991. Stepped down from his operational role in January 2024 as part of a management expansion, handing leadershi...

  Founded Nanotec Electronic

• Benoit Sagot-Duvauroux1 founding

  Founder and director of GOBIO Robot, a French exoskeleton company acquired by Europe Technologies in 2017. Responsible for exoskeletons at GOBIO/Europe Technolo...

  Founded Gobio Robot

• Bernard Charles1 founding

  CEO of Dassault Systemes (1995-2024).

  Founded Dassault Systèmes

• Bernhard Beumer1 founding

  Founder of BEUMER Group.

  Founded BEUMER Group

• Bernhard Mosling1 founding

  Co-founder of Oshkosh Corporation in 1917. Patented the front driving axle with improved steering and drive capacity (1915).

  Founded Oshkosh Corporation

• Bernie Marcus1 founding

  Co-founder of The Home Depot.

  Founded The Home Depot

• Bill Gates1 founding

  Co-founder of Microsoft.

  Founded Microsoft

• Bill Hewlett1 founding

  Co-founder of Hewlett-Packard (HPE origins).

  Founded Hewlett Packard Enterprise

• Bill Hewlett1 founding

  Co-founder of Hewlett-Packard.

  Founded Hewlett Packard Enterprise

• Bob DeSantis1 founding

  Bob DeSantis co-founded 365 Data Centers and served as CEO until his planned retirement in 2025; he was succeeded by Derek Gillespie as CEO, with Steve Amelio p...

  Founded 365 Data Centers

• Brett Diamond1 founding

  Brett Diamond is the founder, Chairman and CEO of 11:11 Systems, previously co-founding and leading Hudson Fiber Network as CEO before establishing 11:11 System...

  Founded 11:11 Systems

• Brian Carlisle1 founding

  Co-founder of Adept Technology, founded in 1983 with Bruce Shimano, building on work the two did as Stanford graduate students with Victor Scheinman at Stanford...

  Founded OMRON Adept

• Bruce C.H. Cheng1 founding

  Founder and Honorary Chairman of Delta Electronics. Founded the company in 1971 and served as Chairman until 2012. Defined Delta's corporate mission to provide ...

  Founded Delta Electronics

• Bruce Cheng1 founding

  Founder of Delta Electronics.

  Founded Delta Electronics

• Bruce Floersheim, Ph.D., P.E.1 founding

  Co-founder and COO of GoX Labs (formerly GoX Studio). US Army veteran. Former director of technology design innovation center at West Point. Co-founded FITT Sci...

  Founded GoXtudio

• Bruce Shimano1 founding

  Co-founder of Adept Technology, founded in 1983 with Brian Carlisle, building on work the two did as Stanford graduate students with Victor Scheinman at Stanfor...

  Founded OMRON Adept

• C.E. Woolman1 founding

  Founder of Delta Air Lines.

  Founded Delta Air Lines

• C.L. Best1 founding

  Co-founder of Caterpillar Inc.

  Founded Caterpillar

• C.R. Smith1 founding

  Founding president of American Airlines.

  Founded American Airlines

• Cadwallader C. Washburn1 founding

  American businessman, politician, and Civil War major general (1818-1882) who founded the Washburn B Mill in Minneapolis in 1866. The mill later became Washburn...

  Founded General Mills

• Carl Benteler1 founding

  Founder of BENTELER Group.

  Founded BENTELER Group

• Carl Bertelsmann1 founding

  Founder of Bertelsmann.

  Founded Bertelsmann

• Carl H Dicke1 founding

  Co-founder of Crown Equipment Corporation.

  Founded Crown Equipment

• Carlo Ratti1 founding

  Italian architect and designer, founder of CRA - Carlo Ratti Associati and MIT Senseable City Lab. Created the Makr Shakr robotic bartending system.

  Founded Makr Shakr

• Carlyle Fraser1 founding

  Founder of Genuine Parts Company.

  Founded Genuine Parts Company

• Carter Hou1 founding

  Founder of Halliday, a smart glasses startup whose glasses use a small DigiWindow display and offer real-time translation for 40 languages. He demonstrated the ...

  Founded Halliday

• Chad Williams1 founding

  Founded QTS Data Centers

• Charles Avnet1 founding

  Founder of Avnet.

  Founded Avnet

• Charles Emerson1 founding

  Founder of Emerson Electric (1890).

  Founded Emerson Electric

• Charles Eugene Lancelot Brown1 founding

  Co-founder of ABB (Brown Boveri and Cie).

  Founded ABB

• Charles Eugene Lancelot Brown1 founding

  Co-founder of Brown Boveri & Cie (later ABB), pioneering electrical engineering.

  Founded ABB Robotics

• Charles F. O'Reilly1 founding

  Co-founder of O'Reilly Auto Parts. He co-founded the company with his son Charles H. 'Chub' O'Reilly on December 2, 1957, in Springfield, Missouri, at age 72, a...

  Founded O'Reilly Automotive

• Charles Geschke1 founding

  Co-founder of Adobe Inc. (founded 1982). Co-developed the PostScript page description language with John Warnock.

  Founded Adobe

• Charles H. O'Reilly1 founding

  Co-founder of O'Reilly Auto Parts. Known as 'Chub' O'Reilly, he co-founded the company with his father Charles F. O'Reilly on December 2, 1957, in Springfield, ...

  Founded O'Reilly Automotive

• Charles Lewis Tiffany1 founding

  American jeweler and businessman (1812-1902) who founded Tiffany & Co. in 1837 in New York City. Born in Killingly, Connecticut. Created the country first retai...

  Founded Tiffany & Co.

• Charles Ng1 founding

  Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at Primech AI, the robotics subsidiary of Singapore-based Primech Holdings, which won the robotics category at the Singap...

  Founded Primech AI

• Charles R Schwab1 founding

  Founder of Charles Schwab Corporation.

  Founded Charles Schwab

• Charles Ranlett Flint1 founding

  Founder of IBM.

  Founded IBM

• Charles Ranlett Flint1 founding

  Founder of IBM (1911 merger).

  Founded IBM

• Charles Rasp1 founding

  Founder of BHP Group (Broken Hill Proprietary).

  Founded BHP Group

• Charles Way1 founding

  Charles Way is the owner and developer of 4AM Development LLC, a data center development company pursuing projects including a proposed data center in Statesbor...

  Founded 4AM Development

• Charles-Antoine Beyney1 founding

  CEO and Founder of DataOne Data Centers.

  Founded DataOne Data Centers

• Charles-Antoine Beyney1 founding

  CEO and Founder of DataOne USA.

  Founded DataOne USA (NEP Real Estate; Nebius Group anchor tenant)

• Charlie Kemp1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Hello Robot, which he founded in 2017 with Aaron Edsinger. In 2007 he founded the Healthcare Robotics Lab at Georgia Tech, researching mob...

  Founded Hello Robot

• Chen Chuqiang1 founding

  One of DJI's four original 2006 founding members who left the company around 2008.

  Founded DJI

• Chen Jinying1 founding

  One of DJI's four original 2006 founding members; departed around 2008 and later reunited with Lu Zhihui at MMC as director of R&D.

  Founded DJI

• Chester Rodney England1 founding

  Founder of C.R. England (1920), built it into one of the largest refrigerated trucking companies in the United States.

  Founded C.R. England

• Chongyang Wang1 founding

  MIT graduate with 10+ years of operational experience, responsible for turning research into shipping product at Dexmate.

  Founded Dexmate

• Chris Chapman1 founding

  Co-founder of Honeybee Robotics in 1983.

  Founded Honeybee Robotics

• Chris Kemp1 founding

  Co-founder of Astra Space.

  Founded Astra Space

• Chris Pinkham1 founding

  Co-creator of Amazon EC2 and founding leader of AWS.

  Founded Amazon Web Services

• Christian Michael Schibsted1 founding

  Norwegian printer and publisher (1812-1878) who founded Schibsted Forlag in 1839 in Christiania (now Oslo). Also established Aftenposten, one of Norway largest ...

  Founded Schibsted

• Christian Szegedy1 founding

  Member of the xAI founding team announced in July 2023.

  Founded xAI

• Christoph Schweizer1 founding

  Founder of Schweizer Electronic AG in 1849 in Schramberg, Germany, initially producing clock faces. The company expanded into printed circuit boards in 1958, wa...

  Founded Schweizer Electronic

• Chuck Fawcett1 founding

  President and CEO of Animax Designs.

  Founded Animax Designs

• Chuck Hull1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of 3D Systems. Inventor of stereolithography (SLA), the first 3D printing technology, patented in 1986 (US 4,575,330). Coined the term "stere...

  Founded 3D Systems

• Chuck McBride1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Atmosphere Data Centers.

  Founded Atmosphere Data Centers

• Chung Ju-yung1 founding

  Founder of Hyundai Motor Group.

  Founded Hyundai Motor Group

• Claire Delaunay1 founding

  Co-founder and VP of Engineering at Otto (2016), the self-driving truck startup. Previously robotics program lead at Google. After Otto's acquisition by Uber, s...

  Founded Otto

• Claude Hathaway1 founding

  Founder of Allied Motion Technologies (Hathaway Instruments).

  Founded Allient

• Colin Angle1 founding

  Co-founder of iRobot, which he started in 1990 with Rodney Brooks and Helen Greiner after working in MIT's Artificial Intelligence Lab. He served as CEO and dep...

  Founded iRobot

• Conrad Hilton1 founding

  Founder of Hilton Hotels.

  Founded Hilton Worldwide

• Corey Welp1 founding

  Co-founder of 1547 Critical Systems Realty.

  Founded 1547 Critical Systems Realty

• Cornelia Weinzierl1 founding

  Cornelia Weinzierl is a Co-founder of Tau Robotics. She studied Computer Science at Stanford University and was previously founder of Melon.

  Founded Tau Robotics

• Cornelis van der Lely1 founding

  Co-founder (with his brother Arij) of Lely in 1948 in Maassluis, Netherlands; an inventor whose agricultural-machinery innovations grew into the maker of the As...

  Founded Lely

• Cruse Moss1 founding

  First president of AM General.

  Founded AM General

• Cullen Davis1 founding

  Co-founder of Crusoe Energy.

  Founded Crusoe

• Dai Wanhui1 founding

  Founder of Hangmo Technology (IRMO), a Beijing-based robotics startup spun out from the Robotics Institute of Beihang University. Holds a Master's degree from t...

  Founded Hangmo Robot / IRMO

• Dan Dodge1 founding

  Co-founder of QNX.

  Founded BlackBerry QNX

• Dan Irvin1 founding

  Dan Irvin founded 123Net in 1995 and served as its CEO before stepping down; he was succeeded by Ken Fitzpatrick as President & CEO and remains on the Board of ...

  Founded 123Net

• Dan Parks1 founding

  Co-founder and COO of inVia Robotics (founded 2015). Robotics expert with 17 years of experience. Oversees manufacturing, deployment and remote monitoring of in...

  Founded inVia Robotics

• Dan Patt1 founding

  Co-founder and former CEO of Vecna Robotics (2018–2020), the Waltham, MA warehouse-automation spin-off from Vecna Technologies. Previously served as deputy dire...

  Founded Vecna Robotics

• Dan Shechtman1 founding

  Founder of Mechanical Chef, an automated cooking startup. Nobel laureate in Chemistry for quasicrystals.

  Founded Mechanical Chef

• Dane A. Miller1 founding

  Co-founder of Biomet, a medical device company founded in 1977 in Warsaw, Indiana.

  Founded Biomet

• Daniel Buchmueller1 founding

  Co-founder of Amazon Prime Air.

  Founded Amazon Prime Air

• Daniele Ramirez1 founding

  Co-founder & COO of Agade. Listed as a founder on Crunchbase and the Agade about page.

  Founded AGADE srl

• Daphne Koller1 founding

  Co-founder of Coursera.

  Founded Coursera

• Dave DeWalt1 founding

  Founder, Managing Director, and CEO of [NightDragon](/companies/nightdragon), a venture capital and advisory firm focused on cybersecurity, safety, security, an...

  Founded NightDragon

• Dave Evans1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Fictiv, democratizing manufacturing and supply chain.

  Founded Fictiv

• Dave Packard1 founding

  Co-founder of Hewlett-Packard.

  Founded Hewlett Packard Enterprise

• Dave Packard1 founding

  Co-founder of Hewlett-Packard (HPE origins).

  Founded Hewlett Packard Enterprise

• Dave Rogers1 founding

  Founder and CEO of AmpZ Champion Data Center Holdings.

  Founded AmpZ Champion Data Center Holdings

• Dave Schaeffer1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Cogent Communications.

  Founded Cogent Communications

• David A Jones1 founding

  Co-founder of Humana.

  Founded Humana

• David Cummings1 founding

  Co-founder of Greenzie; an Atlanta serial entrepreneur best known for founding marketing-automation company Pardot and the Atlanta Ventures studio.

  Founded Greenzie

• David Fuller1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Artificial Inc, a lab automation software company founded in 2018 in Palo Alto. Over 25 years in industrial and service robotics. Former C...

  Founded Artificial

• Detlef Schneider1 founding

  Co-founder and managing director of TQ-Group (TQ-Systems), founded in 1994 in Seefeld, Bavaria. Grew the company from a two-person operation to ~2,200 employees...

  Founded TQ-Systems

• Dillon Zahler1 founding

  Principal and Co-Founder of Colossus Data Center Advisors.

  Founded Colossus Data Center Advisors

• Dmitry Shevelenko1 founding

  Co-founder and President of Tortoise, developing mobile remote-controlled robot stores.

  Founded Tortoise

• Dominic Audet1 founding

  Co-founder of Moment Factory, a multimedia entertainment studio creating immersive lighting and projection installations.

  Founded Moment Factory

• Dominik Heinzelmann1 founding

  Founder and CEO of hTRIUS GmbH, a German industrial exoskeleton developer based in Horb am Neckar in the Black Forest, which he founded in January 2020. The com...

  Founded hTRIUS

• Don Valentine1 founding

  Founder of Sequoia Capital (1972). One of the generation of leaders who forged Silicon Valley. Born in New York in 1932, studied chemistry at Fordham University...

  Founded Sequoia Capital

• Donald Baxter1 founding

  Founder of Baxter International.

  Founded Baxter

• Douglas Dayton1 founding

  American retail executive (1924–2013); founder and first president of [Target](/companies/target), opening the first Target discount store in 1962 as a division...

  Founded Target Corporation

• Dr. Amit Goffer1 founding

  CTO and president of UPnRIDE Robotics and founder of ReWalk, where he was CEO from 2001 to 2012 and president and CTO from 2012 to 2015. Unable to walk after an...

  Founded Lifeward

• Dr. Bob Currie1 founding

  CTO of Belltown Power, leading the company's technical and engineering operations.

  Founded Belltown Power (BT Gateway LLC)

• Dr. Daniel Rizzuto1 founding

  Founder, President and CTO of Nia Therapeutics. PhD in Neuroscience from Brandeis University, postdoctoral training in Neural Engineering at Caltech. Former Dir...

  Founded Nia Therapeutics

• Dr. Fritz Faulhaber1 founding

  Founded FAULHABER in 1947 as a fine mechanics workshop in Schonaich, Germany. Invented the ironless DC micromotor, a milestone in precision mechanics.

  Founded Faulhaber Group

• Dr. Gery Colombo1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Hocoma. A trained electrical and biomedical engineer who has led the company since its founding in 1996, driving innovation in robotic neu...

  Founded Hocoma

• Dr. Ken Wise1 founding

  William G. Dow Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan. Co-founder of Intellige...

  Founded Intelligent Sensor Systems (ISS)

• Dr. Khalil Najafi1 founding

  Schlumberger Professor of Engineering and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Mich...

  Founded Intelligent Sensor Systems (ISS)

• Dr. Michael Kahana1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Nia Therapeutics. Pioneer in human memory research with 230+ publications and 35k+ citations (h-index=100). Co-founder of the Computational M...

  Founded Nia Therapeutics

• Dustin Baker1 founding

  Founder and Managing Partner of Alcove Development.

  Founded Alcove Development

• Dylan Field1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Figma. Chair of the Board of Directors. Co-founded Figma in 2012. Led the company through its IPO in July 2025.

  Founded Figma

• Edmund B. Ball1 founding

  Co-founder of Ball Corporation alongside his brothers. The Ball family built the company into a leading packaging manufacturer.

  Founded Ball Corporation

• Edvard Franckel1 founding

  Founder of [Atlas Copco](/companies/atlas-copco) (originally AB Atlas) in 1873 in Stockholm, Sweden. Franckel established the company as an industrial equipment...

  Founded Atlas Copco

• Einar Nistad1 founding

  Norwegian shipping industry veteran who founded the Nistad Group in 1967, building it into a notable Norwegian shipping and investment company.

  Founded Nistad Group

• Ekaterina Bereziy1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of ExoAtlet, a medical exoskeleton company developing powered hip-knee exoskeletons for gait rehabilitation of patients with locomotor and ne...

  Founded ExoAtlet

• Elie Metri1 founding

  Founder and CEO of QSS AI and Robotics.

  Founded QSS AI & Robotics

• Emiliano Grodzki1 founding

  Co-founder of Bitfarms (2017). Former CEO resigned 2022.

  Founded Bitfarms

• Erez Galonska1 founding

  Co-founder and former CEO of Infarm. AI-powered vertical farming network.

  Founded Infarm

• Eric Friedman1 founding

  Co-founder of Fitbit, which he started with James Park in 2007, serving as CTO at founding. Google acquired Fitbit in 2021, and he left the company in early 202...

  Founded Fitbit

• Eric Jackson1 founding

  Founder and President of [Cellula Robotics](/companies/cellula-robotics), a Burnaby, BC-based marine technology company building hydrogen fuel cell-powered auto...

  Founded Cellula Robotics

• Eric Leuthardt1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of NeuroLutions, a medical device company commercializing the IpsiHand Upper Extremity Rehabilitation System, the first ...

  Founded NeuroLutions

• Eric Pan1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Seeed Studio a leading open hardware platform company based in Shenzhen China.

  Founded Seeed Studio

• Eric Schweikardt1 founding

  Founder of Modular Robotics; invented the Cubelets modular robotic blocks while working on a PhD at Carnegie Mellon University.

  Founded Modular Robotics

• Eric Xu1 founding

  Co-founder of Baidu.

  Founded Baidu Apollo

• Eric Yu1 founding

  Founder and CEO of GTCOM (Global Tone Communication Technology), a world-leading big data and artificial intelligence company focused on cross-language data and...

  Founded Global Tone Communication Technology

• Erle P Halliburton1 founding

  Founder of Halliburton Company (1919).

  Founded Halliburton

• Ernest Oppenheimer1 founding

  Founder of Anglo American (1917).

  Founded Anglo American

• Esben Ostergaard1 founding

  Co-founder of Universal Robots in 2005 at the University of Southern Denmark. Pioneered the commercial collaborative robot market.

  Founded Universal Robots

• Evan Hertafeld1 founding

  CTO and Co-Founder of A2Z Drone Delivery, Inc. Co-founded the company at Brown University in 2016 alongside CEO Aaron Zhang, originally as a drone delivery proj...

  Founded A2Z Drone Delivery

• Evan Tao1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Chestnut Robotics (formerly TetherIA). Previously a core member of the dexterous hand team for Tesla Optimus and worked on Apple Vision Pr...

  Founded Chestnut Robotics

• Everson Lopes1 founding

  Founder of CloudWalk, Inc., a Brazilian fintech company building payment infrastructure and financial services. Also founded The Hive Brasil, a technology inves...

  Founded CloudWalk

• Fairleigh Dickinson1 founding

  Co-founder of Becton Dickinson.

  Founded Becton Dickinson (BD)

• Fausto Panizzolo1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Moveo Srl, an Italian company commercializing ExoBand, a lightweight self-powered soft exoskeleton for walking assistance. Holds an MSc in Bi...

  Founded Moveo s.r.l.

• Ferdinand Porsche1 founding

  German Bohemian automotive engineer who founded Porsche in 1931. Also designed the Volkswagen Beetle. Previously worked at Daimler.

  Founded Porsche

• Francesco Mondada1 founding

  Swiss roboticist and EPFL professor who leads the MOBOTS research group. Co-created Thymio in 2010 and co-founded K-Team SA in 1995. Born 1967 in Locarno, Switz...

  Founded Thymio

• Franco Stefani1 founding

  Italian engineer and entrepreneur who founded System Group (ceramics automation) in the 1970s and System Logistics in 1987. Also founded Modula S.p.A. (vertical...

  Founded System Logistics

• Frank Bunts1 founding

  Co-founder of Cleveland Clinic.

  Founded Cleveland Clinic

• Frank C. Ball1 founding

  Co-founder of Ball Corporation. The Ball brothers established the company in 1880, initially manufacturing glass canning jars.

  Founded Ball Corporation

• Frank C. Lanza1 founding

  Frank C. Lanza (November 6, 1931 – June 6, 2006) was an American defense industry executive who co-founded [L-3 Communications](/companies/l3harris) in 1997 wit...

  Founded L3Harris

• Frank Spedding1 founding

  Founder of Ames National Laboratory.

  Founded Ames National Laboratory

• Franz Josef Popp1 founding

  Co-founder of BMW.

  Founded BMW Group

• Franz Josef Popp1 founding

  Co-founder of BMW.

  Founded BMW Group

• Fred Almeida1 founding

  Co-founder of Ascent.

  Founded Ascent

• Fred C. Koch1 founding

  American chemical engineer and entrepreneur (1900-1967) who founded the oil refinery firm that became Koch Industries. Born in Quanah, Texas, graduated from MIT...

  Founded Koch, Inc.

• Fred C. Mannix1 founding

  Canadian construction magnate who founded Loram Maintenance of Way in 1954; the name 'Loram' is a contraction of 'long-range Mannix'. Deceased.

  Founded Loram

• Frederic dAllest1 founding

  Founder of Arianespace.

  Founded Arianespace

• Frederick W Smith1 founding

  Founder of FedEx Corporation.

  Founded FedEx Corporation

• Frederick W Smith1 founding

  Founder of FedEx Corporation.

  Founded FedEx Corporation

• Frederick W. Smith1 founding

  Founder of FedEx Corporation who revolutionized express delivery, launching Federal Express in 1971 based on a concept from his Yale term paper. A Marine Corps ...

  Founded FedEx Corporation

• Fredrik Karlsson1 founding

  CEO of Lifco AB from 1993 to 2018, architect of Lifco's serial acquisition model. Left in 2018 to co-found and lead Röko, a sector-agnostic serial acquirer.

  Founded Lifco AB

• Freek Hartman1 founding

  Founder of Codian Robotics, the Dutch developer of delta pick-and-place robots. After ABB/B&R acquired the company on 1 October 2020, he continued to work at Co...

  Founded Codian Robotics

• Fu Liquan1 founding

  Founder and Chairman of Dahua Technology.

  Founded Dahua Technology

• Gao Wangshu1 founding

  Founder of Lymow, developing smart lawn care robotics.

  Founded Lymow

• Gary Burrell1 founding

  American electrical engineer, businessman, and philanthropist who co-founded [Garmin](/companies/garmin) with [Min Kao](/people/min-kao) in 1989 to build GPS na...

  Founded Garmin

• Gaurav Kapadia1 founding

  Founder of XN (formerly XN Capital). Previously co-founded Soroban Capital Partners, a multi-billion dollar hedge fund.

  Founded XN

• George Crile Sr1 founding

  Co-founder of Cleveland Clinic.

  Founded Cleveland Clinic

• George Dayton1 founding

  American businessman (1857-1938) who founded Dayton Dry Goods Company in 1902 in Minneapolis, which later became Target Corporation. Born in Clifton Springs, Ne...

  Founded Target Corporation

• George Herman Babcock1 founding

  Founder of Babcock International.

  Founded Babcock International

• George Kantor1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Scientist of [Bloomfield Robotics](/companies/bloomfield-robotics), a Pittsburgh-based AgTech startup using AI-powered vision to monitor sp...

  Founded Bloomfield Robotics

• George M. Whitesides1 founding

  Professor of chemistry at Harvard University whose research includes soft lithography, microfluidics and soft robotics. He has co-founded more than 12 companies...

  Founded Soft Robotics Inc.

• George Matus1 founding

  Founded Teal Drones in 2015 as a teenage Thiel Fellow; Teal was acquired by Red Cat in 2021, where Matus served as CTO until departing in December 2024.

  Founded Red Cat Holdings

• Gerald D. Hines1 founding

  Founder of Hines (1957). American real estate developer who built Hines into a global firm. Died August 23, 2020 at age 95.

  Founded Hines

• Gérard Pélisson1 founding

  Co-founder of Accor Group.

  Founded Accor Group

• Gerardo Pardo-Castellote1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Real-Time Innovations (RTI). Co-authored the OMG Data Distribution Service (DDS) standard, the connectivity standard used in autonomous sy...

  Founded Real-Time Innovations (RTI)

• Gerd Hirzinger1 founding

  Gerd Hirzinger joined DLR in 1969, became head of the automation and robotics laboratory in 1976, and served as Director of the Institute of Robotics and Mechat...

  Founded DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics

• Giovanni Ansaldo1 founding

  Founder of Ansaldo STS (origins).

  Founded Hitachi Rail STS

• Giuseppe Rosso1 founding

  President and MD of Arriver.

  Founded Arriver

• Göran Fredrik Göransson1 founding

  Executive linked to registry companies.

  Founded Sandvik

• Gordon Bell1 founding

  Co-founder of QNX.

  Founded BlackBerry QNX

• Gordon Moore1 founding

  Co-founder of Intel.

  Founded Intel Corporation

• Gottlieb Daimler1 founding

  Founder of Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft.

  Founded Daimler Truck Holding AG

• Gottlieb Stoll1 founding

  Co-founder of Festo.

  Founded Festo

• Greg Yang1 founding

  Member of the xAI founding team announced in July 2023.

  Founded xAI

• Gregory Fish1 founding

  Joined Aurrion in 2009 as CTO. UCSB alum and co-founder of Agility Communications, a prior UCSB spinout. Led technology development for Aurrion's heterogeneous ...

  Founded Aurrion

• Guidong Chu1 founding

  Co-founder and CFO of R-Storm Technology, a Cambridge, MA-based robotics company developing high-altitude cleaning robots.

  Founded R-Storm Technology

• Guodong Zhang1 founding

  Member of the xAI founding team announced in July 2023.

  Founded xAI

• Gur Kimchi1 founding

  Co-founder of Amazon Prime Air.

  Founded Amazon Prime Air

• Gustaf de Laval1 founding

  Swedish engineer and inventor (1845–1913) who pioneered the centrifugal cream separator and early milking machines. Co-founded AB Separator with Oscar Lamm in 1...

  Founded DeLaval

• Gustav Larson1 founding

  Co-founder of Volvo Group.

  Founded Volvo Group

• Gustav Otto1 founding

  Co-founder of BMW.

  Founded BMW Group

• Hanns Tappeiner1 founding

  Co-founder and President of Anki, a consumer robotics company. Studied at the University of Technology in Graz, Austria and Carnegie Mellon University. After An...

  Founded Anki

• Hans Beckhoff1 founding

  German physicist and founder of Beckhoff Automation, a pioneer of PC-based control technology. Has led the family-owned company since 1980 and remains Managing ...

  Founded Beckhoff Automation

• He Jiabin1 founding

  Chinese product designer and entrepreneur (born 1992, Zhuzhou, Hunan). Studied industrial design at Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology, interned at Microso...

  Founded ByteDance

• He Xiangjian1 founding

  Founded Midea Group in 1968, building it from a bottle cap workshop into one of the worlds largest appliance manufacturers and a major robotics player via the K...

  Founded Midea Group

• Heinrich Ehrhardt1 founding

  Founder of Rheinmetall, the German defense and automotive components manufacturer.

  Founded Rheinmetall

• Henri Ziegler1 founding

  Co-founder of Airbus.

  Founded Airbus

• Henrique Nery1 founding

  Co-founder of Automni.

  Founded Automni

• Henry Ford1 founding

  Founder of Ford Motor Company.

  Founded Ford Motor Company

• Henry Nicholas III1 founding

  Co-founder of Broadcom Corporation. Billionaire philanthropist who built Broadcom into a major semiconductor company.

  Founded Broadcom

• Henry Samueli1 founding

  American businessman, electrical engineer, and philanthropist; co-founder of Broadcom Corporation. Born September 20, 1954 in Buffalo, New York. Co-founded Broa...

  Founded Broadcom

• Henry Taub1 founding

  Henry Taub founded Automatic Data Processing (ADP) in 1949 as an early pioneer of the human capital management industry; the company is now led by CEO Maria Bla...

  Founded ADP

• Henry Wells1 founding

  Co-founder of American Express.

  Founded American Express

• Heonchul Dae1 founding

  Founder and CEO of DEEPX. AI semiconductor company democratizing AI at the edge.

  Founded DEEPX

• Herbert Henry Dow1 founding

  Founder of Dow Chemical.

  Founded Dow

• Hermann Haraldsson1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Boozt Group. Has been CEO since 2011, leading the Nordic fashion e-commerce company through growth and expansion.

  Founded Boozt

• Hermann Stäubli1 founding

  Swiss industrialist who co-founded Stäubli in 1892 with Rudolph Schelling as Schelling & Stäubli, originally a dobby loom workshop in Horgen, Switzerland. The c...

  Founded Stäubli

• Hideyuki Fujisawa1 founding

  Founder & CEO of Archelis Inc. Founded 2020 in Yokohama, Japan. Pioneering wearable exoskeleton company specializing in lower-limb support for standing work.

  Founded Archelis Inc

• Hiroshi Ishiguro1 founding

  Director of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory at Osaka University. A roboticist focused on building human-like androids, he created the Geminoid, an android m...

  Founded A-Lab Factory

• Horace William Heyman1 founding

  American electrical engineer (1912–1998) who founded Sevcon in 1961 to develop semiconductor-controlled rectifier (SCR) motor controllers for electric vehicles....

  Founded Sevcon (BorgWarner)

• Howard Hughes Sr1 founding

  Founder of Baker Hughes (Hughes Tool Company).

  Founded Baker Hughes

• Howard Paul1 founding

  Howard 'Hap' Paul was a veterinarian who co-developed the ROBODOC surgical robot with Dr. William Bargar at the University of California, Davis.

  Founded ROBODOC

• Howard Robard Hughes Sr1 founding

  Founder of Hughes Tool Company co-predecessor of Baker Hughes.

  Founded Baker Hughes

• Howard Vollum1 founding

  American electronics engineer and co-founder of Tektronix in 1946. Developed the Type 511 oscilloscope, revolutionizing oscilloscope design, and served as presi...

  Founded Tektronix

• Howard Wood1 founding

  Co-founder of Charter Communications.

  Founded Charter Communications (Spectrum)

• Hugh Herr1 founding

  Co-Founder of Dephy, Inc. Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT Media Lab, where he co-leads the Yang Center for Bionics. Renowned bionics researcher and ...

  Founded Dephy

• Hung Bui1 founding

  Founder of VinAI.

  Founded VinAI

• Hussain Sajwani1 founding

  Founder of DAMAC and EDGNEX.

  Founded DAMAC Digital (EDGNEX)

• Hyunggi Cho1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of [Phantom AI](/companies/phantom-ai), an autonomous driving startup acquired by [Harbinger Motors](/companies/harbinger-motors). PhD in Ele...

  Founded Phantom AI

• Iain Percy1 founding

  CEO of Artemis Technologies.

  Founded Artemis Technologies

• Ian Wright1 founding

  Co-founder of Tesla (one of the earliest team members, 2003-2004); later founded electric-powertrain company Wrightspeed.

  Founded Tesla

• Igor Babuschkin1 founding

  Member of the xAI founding team announced in July 2023.

  Founded xAI

• Ikuo Takeda1 founding

  Founder of Takeda Riken Industries later Advantest.

  Founded Advantest

• Ilan Penn1 founding

  Co-Founder of Chip Motors. Previously at Tier (micromobility), Fantasmo (mapping), and South Park Commons. USC graduate.

  Founded Chip Motors

• Irving Fain1 founding

  Founder and CEO of [Bowery Farming](/companies/bowery-farming), once the largest vertical farming company in the US, which he founded in 2015 in New York City. ...

  Founded Bowery Farming

• Irwin Jacobs1 founding

  Co-founder of Qualcomm.

  Founded Qualcomm

• Ivan Pinney1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Barrio Resources LLC.

  Founded Barrio Resources LLC

• Ivan Zhao1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Notion.

  Founded Notion

• J. Kenneth Stringer III1 founding

  J. Kenneth Stringer III was president and CEO of FLIR Systems from January 1999 until 2000, when the board fired him over errors in the company's accounting pra...

  Founded Teledyne FLIR

• J. Robert Beyster1 founding

  American nuclear physicist and entrepreneur who founded Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) in 1969, building it into an $8 billion employee-o...

  Founded Leidos

• J.R. Pitt Hyde III1 founding

  Founder of AutoZone.

  Founded AutoZone

• J.R. Pitt Hyde III1 founding

  Founder of AutoZone.

  Founded AutoZone

• Jack Sordoni1 founding

  Jack Sordoni is the founder of 4-3 Consulting/Glen Brook Group, a data center development company that has organized major data center projects including a $1.2...

  Founded 4-3 Glen Brook Group

• Jacques Saadé1 founding

  Jacques R. Saadé (1937–2018) was a Lebanese-born French businessman who founded CMA (Compagnie Maritime d'Affrètement) in Marseille in 1978 with a single ship, ...

  Founded CMA CGM

• James Ford Bell1 founding

  American business leader and philanthropist (1879-1961) who founded General Mills in 1928 by consolidating Washburn-Crosby with other regional mills. Served as ...

  Founded General Mills

• James Hennessey1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Hypermile, a London-based Y Combinator (S20) startup developing a retrofittable AI driver co-pilot (Hypermile Co-Pilot) that reduces diesel t...

  Founded Hypermile

• James Park1 founding

  Co-founder of Fitbit, which he started with Eric Friedman in 2007, and its longtime CEO and president. He led the company through its IPO and its $2.1 billion s...

  Founded Fitbit

• James R. Scapa1 founding

  Founder, Chairman & CEO of Altair Engineering. Pioneered convergence of AI, simulation, and HPC. Siemens announced acquisition of Altair in 2024.

  Founded Altair Engineering

• Jameson Detweiler1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Chip Motors, developing the Chip Life Utility Vehicle (LUV) in Miami. Plans to add autonomous driving features including self-parking and err...

  Founded Chip Motors

• Jamnalal Bajaj1 founding

  Founder of Bajaj Group and Bajaj Auto.

  Founded Bajaj Group

• Jamnalal Bajaj1 founding

  Founder of Bajaj Auto.

  Founded Bajaj Auto

• Jan Goetgeluk1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Virtuix Holdings (NASDAQ: VTIX). Holds Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Ghent, Belgium...

  Founded Virtuix Holdings

• Jane Mooney1 founding

  Co-founder of [Collaborative Robotics](/companies/collaborative-robotics) (brand name Cobot), a Santa Clara-based robotics company founded in 2022 by former Ama...

  Founded Cobot Intel

• Jason Andrews1 founding

  American space and technology entrepreneur who founded [BlackSky](/companies/blacksky) Global LLC in 2013 as a subsidiary of Spaceflight Industries to build a c...

  Founded BlackSky

• Jason Chen1 founding

  CEO and Founder of DIH Medical, developing robotic rehabilitation and medical automation systems

  Founded DIH Medical

• Jason Zhang1 founding

  Founder of Applied Digital Corporation.

  Founded Applied Digital

• Jay Adelson1 founding

  Co-founder of Equinix.

  Founded Equinix

• Jayakrishnan T1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Asimov Robotics, a top 10 robotics company in India. Acquired by Zoho Corporation for deeptech R&D.

  Founded Asimov Robotics

• JB Straubel1 founding

  Co-founder and former CTO of Tesla (2004-2019); subsequently founded and is CEO of battery-recycling company Redwood Materials, and sits on Tesla's board.

  Founded Tesla

• Jean-François Duval1 founding

  Co-Founder and CTO of Dephy, Inc. Co-founded Dephy with Luke Mooney, spun out of MIT Media Lab research on powered ankle exoskeletons.

  Founded Dephy

• Jeff Sprecher1 founding

  Founder of Intercontinental Exchange (ICE).

  Founded Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE)

• Jeff Zygler1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Active Infrastructure, a national data center and digital infrastructure developer and owner. Over 15 years of institutional real estate expe...

  Founded Active Infrastructure

• Jeffrey Clay1 founding

  Co-founder of Belltown Power Texas and COO, leading the company's data center development business with deep expertise in the ERCOT grid.

  Founded Belltown Power

• Jeffrey Goldberger1 founding

  Co-founder and Principal of Atlas Capital Group, a real estate investment firm founded in 2006.

  Founded Atlas Capital Group

• Jerald Kent1 founding

  Co-founder of Charter Communications.

  Founded Charter Communications (Spectrum)

• Jeroen Dekker1 founding

  Founder of Active Ants.

  Founded Active Ants

• Jerome Increase Case1 founding

  Founder of Case Corporation (1842), a leading American agricultural equipment manufacturer. Pioneered the steam-powered threshing machine.

  Founded Case IH

• Jerry Ferguson1 founding

  Co-founder of Biomet, a medical device company founded in 1977 in Warsaw, Indiana.

  Founded Biomet

• Jerry Sanders1 founding

  Founder of AMD (Advanced Micro Devices founded 1969). Former Fairchild Semiconductor executive who led the company through decades of semiconductor innovation.

  Founded AMD

• Jerry Tang1 founding

  CEO and co-founder of AIB Data Centers Inc.

  Founded AIB Data Centers Inc.

• Jihan Wu1 founding

  Co-founder of Bitmain.

  Founded Bitmain

• Jim Sinegal1 founding

  Co-founder of Costco Wholesale.

  Founded Costco Wholesale

• Jimmy Ba1 founding

  Member of the xAI founding team announced in July 2023.

  Founded xAI

• Joe Figura1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Buoyant Aero (YC S21), developing autonomous cargo airships for middle-mile delivery. MIT aerospace engineer who built and flew communicat...

  Founded Buoyant Aero

• Joe Fisher1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Lithium Werks.

  Founded Lithium Werks

• Joel Ogren1 founding

  CEO and Founder of Assured Communications Advisors.

  Founded Assured Communications Advisors

• Johann Vaillant1 founding

  Founder of the Vaillant Group, which he started in 1874 as a master fitter's business in Remscheid, Germany. In 1894 he patented a closed-system gas-fired bathr...

  Founded Vaillant Group

• John A Swanson1 founding

  Founder of ANSYS.

  Founded Ansys Digital Twin

• John A. Swanson1 founding

  American engineer and entrepreneur who founded Ansys (as Swanson Analysis Systems, Inc.) in 1970 after leaving Westinghouse Astronuclear Laboratory; John Fritz ...

  Founded Ansys

• John Bowers1 founding

  UCSB Professor and co-founder of Aurrion, serving as Chairman of the Board. Pioneered heterogeneous silicon photonics integration research at UC Santa Barbara.

  Founded Aurrion

• John Butterfield1 founding

  Co-founder of American Express.

  Founded American Express

• John D Rockefeller1 founding

  Founder of Standard Oil (ExxonMobil predecessor).

  Founded ExxonMobil

• John Deere1 founding

  Founder of Deere and Company.

  Founded John Deere

• John Deere1 founding

  Founder of Deere and Company (1837).

  Founded John Deere

• John Fluke Sr.1 founding

  Founded Fluke Corporation in 1948 as the John Fluke Engineering Company in Springdale, Connecticut, producing electrical test and measurement equipment.

  Founded Fluke Corporation

• John Geisse1 founding

  American retail pioneer (1920-1992) who founded three successful discount store chains: Target Stores (1962, for the Dayton Company), Venture Stores (1968, for ...

  Founded Target Corporation

• John Halpin1 founding

  Co-founder and Chairman of Beacon Data Centers. Partner at Nadia Partners, a specialist investor in AI and digital infrastructure.

  Founded Beacon Data Centers (Westline TX Holdings LLC)

• John Jay Hopkins1 founding

  Founder of General Dynamics.

  Founded General Dynamics

• John Thornton1 founding

  John Thornton is CEO of Astrobotic Technology, which develops technology for lunar and planetary exploration. A Carnegie Mellon graduate, he was recruited to As...

  Founded Astrobotic Technology

• John W Emerson1 founding

  Founder of Emerson Electric.

  Founded Emerson Electric

• John Walker1 founding

  Founder of Autodesk.

  Founded Autodesk

• John Warnock1 founding

  Co-founder of Adobe Inc. (founded 1982). Developed the PostScript page description language.

  Founded Adobe

• Johnnie Bryan Hunt1 founding

  Founder of J.B. Hunt Transport.

  Founded J.B. Hunt Transport Services

• Jonathan Bates1 founding

  Founder of BitMine Immersion Technologies. Former Chairman and CEO.

  Founded Bitmine Immersion Technologies

• Jonathan Jensen1 founding

  CEO and Co-Founder of Data Center Power Company.

  Founded Data Center Power Company

• Jonathan Ross1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Groq (2016). Former Google engineer who co-designed the Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) and created the Language Processing Unit (LPU). Joined N...

  Founded Groq

• Jonathon Ward1 founding

  Founder of Atlas Development LLC, a full-service data center developer founded in 2017.

  Founded Atlas Development

• Jorge Heraud1 founding

  Co-founder and former CEO of Blue River Technology (acquired by John Deere in 2017); subsequently John Deere's VP of Automation & Autonomy until ~2024.

  Founded Blue River Technology

• José L. Pons1 founding

  Founding Partner of Technaid. Senior research scientist at CSIC (Spanish National Research Council), Cajal Institute, Neural Rehabilitation Group. Led the Bioen...

  Founded Technaid S.L.

• Jose Sanchez1 founding

  Co-founder of Atlantic.Net.

  Founded Atlantic.Net

• Josef Koroesi1 founding

  Founder of ANDRITZ (1852).

  Founded ANDRITZ

• Joseph Hitt, Ph.D.1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of GoX Labs (formerly GoX Studio). Former DARPA Program Manager for LS3, Warrior Web, EXACTO, Squad X, and Vulture projects. Former Associate...

  Founded GoXtudio

• Joseph Oriel Eaton II1 founding

  Co-founder of Eaton Corporation.

  Founded Eaton Corporation

• Joseph-Armand Bombardier1 founding

  Founder of Bombardier (1942). Canadian inventor and entrepreneur.

  Founded Bombardier Transportation

• Joseph-Armand Bombardier1 founding

  Founder of Bombardier (1942). Canadian inventor and entrepreneur.

  Founded Bombardier

• Josh Harris1 founding

  Co-founder of Apollo Global Management.

  Founded Apollo Global Management, Inc.

• Josie Braga1 founding

  Co-founder of Braga Fresh (originally Braga Farms) in 1928 alongside her husband Sebastian Braga, starting a family farming operation in Soledad, California, in...

  Founded Braga Fresh Partners

• József Veres1 founding

  Co-founded OptoForce in 2012 with Ákos Tar. Robotic force/torque sensor innovator.

  Founded OptoForce

• Julia Yang1 founding

  Founder of MAD Components (Jiangxi MAD Components Co., Ltd.), a Nanchang-based manufacturer of brushless motors and multirotor components for heavy-lift drones ...

  Founded MAD Components

• Karl Albrecht1 founding

  Co-founder of Aldi Sud.

  Founded Aldi Sud

• Karl Rapp1 founding

  Co-founder of BMW.

  Founded BMW Group

• Karl Storz1 founding

  Founder of KARL STORZ, established in Tuttlingen, Germany in 1945. Pioneer of cold light illumination technology for medical endoscopes, transforming minimally ...

  Founded Karl Storz SE & Co. KG

• Karl Zelik1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of HeroWear, a Nashville-based exosuit company. Biomechanical engineer and professor at Vanderbilt University who invent...

  Founded HeroWear

• Kazuma Tateisi1 founding

  Founder of Omron, the Japanese electronics and automation company.

  Founded Omron

• KC Liu1 founding

  Founder and Chairman of Advantech Co., Ltd., the world's largest industrial PC maker with a 41% market share. Born Liu Ko-chen (劉克振); cofounded Advantech in 198...

  Founded Advantech

• Ke Shang1 founding

  Industrial exoskeleton researcher and CEO & Founder of Crimson Dynamics, a Chinese exoskeleton R&D company established in 2016. Develops occupational wearable s...

  Founded Crimson Dynamics

• Kees Koolen1 founding

  Dutch businessman and investor. Former COO, CEO, and Chairman of Booking.com (2002–2014), where he scaled the company into the world's leading online travel pla...

  Founded EQT Ventures

• Keiichiro Yasukawa1 founding

  Founded Yaskawa Electric in 1915 in Kitakyushu, Japan.

  Founded Yaskawa Electric

• Keith Bentley1 founding

  Co-founder of Bentley Systems.

  Founded Bentley Systems

• Keith Gunura1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of noonee, developed the Chairless Chair concept at ETH Zurich in 2009. Born in Zimbabwe, holds M.Sc in Nuclear Engineering and BEng in Mecha...

  Founded Noonee

• Ken Ho1 founding

  Chairman and CEO of Primech Holdings Limited (Nasdaq: PMEC). Founded Primech AI in 2024 as a subsidiary to develop autonomous cleaning robotics.

  Founded Primech AI

• Kenzo Saito1 founding

  Japanese industrialist who founded Tokyo Denki Kagaku Kogyo K.K. (now TDK Corporation) on December 7, 1935 to commercialise ferrite — the world's first oxide-ba...

  Founded TDK Corporation

• Kiefus and Levine Families1 founding

  Founding families of Big Joe Forklifts (Big Joe Manufacturing), established in 1951 in Chicago.

  Founded Big Joe Forklifts

• Kiichiro Toyoda1 founding

  Founder of DENSO and Toyota Motor.

  Founded DENSO Corporation

• Kiichiro Toyoda1 founding

  Founder of Aisin (Aichi Industries).

  Founded Aisin

• Kommer Damen1 founding

  Kommer Damen is chairman of Damen Shipyards, the Dutch shipbuilder established in 1927 by his father Jan Damen and uncle Marinus Damen. He took over the company...

  Founded Damen Shipyards

• Kōnosuke Matsushita1 founding

  Kōnosuke Matsushita founded Panasonic (originally Matsushita Electric Housewares Manufacturing Works) in 1918 in Osaka, Japan. He is considered one of Japan's m...

  Founded Panasonic Holdings

• Koo In-hwoi1 founding

  Koo In-hwoi (1907 to 1969) was a South Korean businessman and the co-founder of LG Group, one of the largest chaebols in South Korea.

  Founded LG Electronics

• Kyle Kosic1 founding

  Member of the xAI founding team announced in July 2023.

  Founded xAI

• Lan Zhenzhong1 founding

  Founder of West Lake Xinchen (Hangzhou) Technology Co., Ltd. PI at the School of Engineering, Westlake University.

  Founded West Lake Xinchen

• Lance Tracey1 founding

  Co-founder of Aptum (Peer 1 Network).

  Founded Aptum

• Lanham Napier1 founding

  Founder of BorderPlex Digital Assets.

  Founded BorderPlex Digital Assets

• Larry Ellison1 founding

  Founder of Oracle Corporation.

  Founded Oracle

• Larry Hillblom1 founding

  Co-founder of DHL.

  Founded DHL Group

• Lars Holmgren1 founding

  Co-founder of Brokk. Together with his brother Per-Martin Holmgren, he developed the world's first remote-controlled demolition robot in 1976 at Rönnskärsverken...

  Founded Brokk

• Lars Jörnow1 founding

  Founding partner of EQT Ventures, alongside Kees Koolen and Hjalmar Winbladh. Before co-founding EQT Ventures, he was VP of Mobile at King Digital, where he hel...

  Founded EQT Ventures

• Lars Schmitz1 founding

  Lars Schmitz is CTO and co-founder of AgXeed, a developer of autonomous agricultural machines.

  Founded AgXeed

• Leo Ryzhenko1 founding

  Founder and CEO of SMP Robotics.

  Founded SMP Robotics

• Leon Black1 founding

  Co-founder of Apollo Global Management.

  Founded Apollo Global Management, Inc.

• Leonard Parker Pool1 founding

  Founder of Air Products and Chemicals (founded 1940 in Detroit). Pioneered on-site production and sales of industrial gases.

  Founded Air Products

• Li Hongjing1 founding

  Li Hongjing co-founded Autel Robotics with Maxwell Lee in Shenzhen in 2014. The company makes consumer and commercial drones, including the Evo and Dragon Fish ...

  Founded Autel Robotics

• Li Hongzhang1 founding

  Founder of Changan Automobile origins (1862).

  Founded Changan Automobile

• Li Shufu1 founding

  Founder and chairman of Zhejiang Geely Holding Group. Geely Capital is the corporate venture arm investing in robotics and automotive technology including Unitr...

  Founded Geely Auto

• Li Xiang1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Li Auto, a Chinese EV manufacturer specializing in extended-range electric SUVs.

  Founded Li Auto

• Li Yuan1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Benewake.

  Founded Benewake

• Liang Wengen1 founding

  Founder and chairman of SANY Group.

  Founded SANY Heavy Industry

• Limor Fried1 founding

  Founder of Adafruit Industries.

  Founded Adafruit Industries

• Linus Yale Sr1 founding

  Founder of Yale Lock (Hyster-Yale origins).

  Founded Hyster-Yale Materials Handling

• Lior Ron1 founding

  Co-founder of Otto (2016), the self-driving truck startup acquired by Uber. Previously Product Lead for Google Maps. Served in Israeli Army Intelligence (1997–2...

  Founded Otto

• Liu Siqi1 founding

  Co-founder of BGI Group (Beijing Genomics Institute), founded in 1999 to participate in the Human Genome Project.

  Founded BGI Group

• Livio Valenti1 founding

  Co-founder of Moveo s.r.l. Based in Boston, coordinates the business side of the company. Also co-founded Vaxess Technologies and Cambridge Crops. Sustainabilit...

  Founded Moveo s.r.l.

• Lu Zhihui1 founding

  One of DJI's four original 2006 founding members and its youngest; left around 2008 and later co-founded rival drone maker MMC.

  Founded DJI

• Lucy Guo1 founding

  Co-founder of Scale AI.

  Founded Scale AI

• Ludvig Fredholm1 founding

  Founder of ASEA (later ABB), the Swedish electrical engineering company.

  Founded ABB Robotics

• Luke Mooney1 founding

  Co-Founder and CEO of Dephy, Inc. PhD, MIT. Leading creation of bionic footwear — the world's first powered ankle wearable (Dephy Sidekick). Spun out of MIT Med...

  Founded Dephy

• M.T. Liao1 founding

  Co-founder of ASUS.

  Founded ASUS

• Mads Clausen1 founding

  Founder of Danfoss.

  Founded Danfoss

• Maja Mataric1 founding

  USC professor and founding director of the Robotics and Autonomous Systems Center; expert in socially assistive humanoid robotics

  Founded Embodied

• Malcolm Fraser1 founding

  Co-founder of Genuine Parts Company.

  Founded Genuine Parts Company

• Manfred Sticksel1 founding

  Founder of Allied Vision.

  Founded Allied Vision

• Manuel Kroiss1 founding

  Member of the xAI founding team announced in July 2023.

  Founded xAI

• Marc Andreessen1 founding

  Co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). 19 robotics/physical AI participations including Mind Robotics, Even Realities, OpenRouter.

  Founded Andreessen Horowitz

• Marc Rowan1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Apollo Global Management. Named to Barron's 2025 Top CEO list.

  Founded Apollo Global Management, Inc.

• Marc Tarpenning1 founding

  Co-founder of Tesla (2003); co-founded NuvoMedia with Martin Eberhard before Tesla. Now a venture investor.

  Founded Tesla

• Mark1 founding

  Founder of Shenzhen QI Technology Co., Ltd., the company behind the DOGCOM brand of LiPo batteries for FPV drones, RC vehicles, and airsoft applications. The co...

  Founded Dogcom (Shenzhen QI Technology Co., Ltd.)

• Mark D Gross1 founding

  Mark D. Gross is director of the ATLAS Institute and a professor of computer science at the University of Colorado Boulder. He co-founded Modular Robotics and B...

  Founded Modular Robotics

• Mark Honeywell1 founding

  Founder of Honeywell Heating Specialty Co (1906).

  Founded Honeywell International

• Mark Palatucci1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Anki, a consumer robotics company known for Cozmo, Overdrive, and Vector robots. PhD in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon Un...

  Founded Anki

• Mark Telford1 founding

  Co-founder of Forth Engineering (Cumbria, founded 2000 with his wife Nicola), a subsea and nuclear robotics/engineering firm; stepped down as managing director ...

  Founded Forth Engineering

• Mark Teolis1 founding

  Co-founder of Aptum (Peer 1 Network).

  Founded Aptum

• Markus Willems1 founding

  Co-founded Rowa in 1996 and served as Managing Director, building it into one of Europe's leading pharmacy robotics companies with 3,500+ installations across 3...

  Founded BD Rowa

• Martin Eberhard1 founding

  Co-founder and first CEO of Tesla (2003-2007); previously founded NuvoMedia. An electrical engineer who later worked in EV powertrain ventures.

  Founded Tesla

• Martin Hermann1 founding

  Founder, CEO and Chairman of BrightNight. Previously founded 8minutenergy and served as its CEO. Serial entrepreneur in renewable energy.

  Founded BrightNight

• Martin Hitch1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Business Officer of Bossa Nova Robotics (now Badger Technologies), a retail robotics company.

  Founded Badger Technologies

• Masaru Ibuka1 founding

  Co-founder of Sony Corporation, pioneered transistor radios and consumer electronics.

  Founded Sony Corporation

• Masayoshi Son1 founding

  Founder and CEO of SoftBank Group. SoftBank Vision Fund is the largest tech investment fund, backing Skild AI, NEURA Robotics, Saronic, Agility Robotics, and ma...

  Founded SoftBank

• Masayuki Ishizaki1 founding

  CEO of Ascent.

  Founded Ascent

• Mason Jappa1 founding

  Co-founder of Blockware Solutions (2017). Former CEO.

  Founded Blockware Solutions

• Mason Jappa1 founding

  Co-founder of Blockware Solutions (2017). Former CEO removed by board June 2026.

  Founded Blockware

• Masoud Doolabi1 founding

  Founder and Director at Microhard Systems N.V. with 24 years of experience in computer and networking fields. Expert in windows networking.

  Founded Microhard Systems

• Masuo Tadano1 founding

  Founded Tadano Ltd. in 1948 in Takamatsu, Japan, starting as a steel fabricator in 1919 before manufacturing cargo handling equipment and eventually becoming Ja...

  Founded Tadano

• Mathew D Souza1 founding

  Co-founder of Blockware Solutions (2017). Deceased.

  Founded Blockware

• Mathew D Souza1 founding

  Co-founder of Blockware Solutions (2017). Deceased.

  Founded Blockware Solutions

• Matt Barnard1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Plenty, a vertical farming company using indoor hydroponic systems for sustainable agriculture.

  Founded Plenty

• Matt Maloney1 founding

  Co-founder and former CEO of Grubhub. Led the company from its 2004 founding through its 2014 IPO and acquisition by Just Eat Takeaway in 2021.

  Founded Grubhub

• Matt Miller1 founding

  Founder, President & CTO of MobileDemand. Started the company in 2003 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa after identifying a mobile computing need at Anheuser-Busch beer who...

  Founded MobileDemand

• Matt Schultz1 founding

  Co-founder, CEO and Chairman of CleanSpark (CLSK), America's largest publicly-traded Bitcoin miner by hashrate. Founded CleanSpark in 2014 and served as CEO unt...

  Founded CleanSpark

• Matthias Jörg1 founding

  Matthias Jörg is an electrical and biomedical engineer who co-founded Hocoma, a Swiss maker of robotic and sensor-based devices for functional movement therapy,...

  Founded Hocoma

• Maurice Goldberg1 founding

  Founder of Arrow Electronics (Arrow Radio).

  Founded Arrow Electronics

• Max Friefeld1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Voodoo Manufacturing.

  Founded Voodoo Manufacturing

• Max Larin1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of XIMEA.

  Founded XIMEA

• Maxwell Becton1 founding

  Co-founder of Becton Dickinson.

  Founded Becton Dickinson (BD)

• Maxwell Lee1 founding

  Chinese American entrepreneur, co-founded Autel Robotics in 2014 in Shenzhen.

  Founded Autel Robotics

• Meitaro Takeuchi1 founding

  Founder of Komatsu, the Japanese construction and mining equipment manufacturer.

  Founded Komatsu

• Mel Torrie1 founding

  Founder of ASI Mining.

  Founded ASI Mining

• Melvin Jack Murdock1 founding

  American businessman, philanthropist, and radio technician from Portland, Oregon. Co-founded Tektronix in 1946 as an equal partnership with Howard Vollum, Miles...

  Founded Tektronix

• Michael Drodofsky1 founding

  Co-founder of NEOintralogistics.

  Founded NEOintralogistics

• Michael Fleming1 founding

  Michael Fleming founded Torc Robotics after competing for Virginia Tech in the 2004 and 2005 DARPA Grand Challenges, and led it as CEO. He stepped down as CEO o...

  Founded Torc Robotics

• Michael Hsing1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Monolithic Power Systems. Founded MPS in 1997. Leading power electronics solutions for robotics motor drivers, motor controllers, and humanoi...

  Founded Monolithic Power Systems

• Michael Kaplan1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Belltown Power (UK), now Non-Executive Director for the US entity. Previously Partner at Albion Ventures.

  Founded Belltown Power

• Michael Kaplan1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Belltown Power, an international renewable energy company founded in 2013.

  Founded Belltown Power (BT Gateway LLC)

• Michael McNeilly1 founding

  Founder of Applied Materials (founded 1967). Founded Applied Materials Technology at age 28 and issued over 20 patents during his tenure.

  Founded Applied Materials

• Michael Neidorff1 founding

  CEO of Centene Corporation (1996-2022).

  Founded Centene Corporation

• Michael Ourabah1 founding

  Co-founder of BSO and DataOne. Seasoned entrepreneur with decades of experience in infrastructure and connectivity.

  Founded DataOne

• Michael Sims1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Ceres Robotics, a NASA CLPS company developing lunar landers and rovers. Former VP at Moon Express and 20+ year NASA veteran who worked on Ma...

  Founded Ceres Robotics

• Michael Sims1 founding

  NASA veteran who spent 21 years at NASA JPL working on Mars rover missions and founded the NASA Ames Artificial Intelligence group's field robotics program (Int...

  Founded Ceres Robotics

• Michael Tsui1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Rehab-Robotics Company Limited and Deltason Medical Ltd. Developed the Hand of Hope, the first robotic hand rehabilitation exoskeleton, proto...

  Founded Rehab-Robotics

• Mick Mountz1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Kiva Systems (acquired by Amazon in 2012, became Amazon Robotics); previously at Webvan, whose collapse inspired the Kiva mobile-robotic-fulf...

  Founded Kiva Systems

• Micree Zhan1 founding

  CEO of Bitmain.

  Founded Bitmain

• Mike Evans1 founding

  Co-founder of Grubhub in 2004 alongside Matt Maloney.

  Founded Grubhub

• Mike Flanigan1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Seasats.

  Founded Seasats

• Mike Zelkind1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Kalera (now 80 Acres Farms).

  Founded Kalera

• Mikhail Krundyshev1 founding

  Co-founder of ExoAtlet, a medical exoskeleton company developing powered gait-rehabilitation suits. He brought extensive engineering experience in robotics and ...

  Founded ExoAtlet

• Mikk Murumäe1 founding

  Co-Founder and CTO of Threod Systems. Oversees product development including the Eos UAV series and Cata launcher systems. Led the development of the first VTOL...

  Founded Threod Systems

• Miles Lowell Edwards1 founding

  Miles Lowell Edwards was an electrical engineer who founded Edwards Lifesciences in 1958 and invented the first medically proven and adopted artificial heart va...

  Founded Edwards Lifesciences

• Min Kao1 founding

  Co-founder of Garmin, the GPS navigation and wearable technology company.

  Founded Garmin

• Mitch Wainer1 founding

  Co-founder of DigitalOcean.

  Founded DigitalOcean

• Mitchell Rales1 founding

  Co-founder of Danaher Corporation.

  Founded Danaher Corporation

• Mohamed Hage1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Lufa Farms.

  Founded Lufa Farms

• Mohammed Bakhashwain1 founding

  Founder, CEO and Chairman of Bitzero Holdings Inc. (CSE: AIBZ). Leads Bitzero, a data center and Bitcoin mining company.

  Founded Bitzero

• Moisey Uretsky1 founding

  Co-founder of DigitalOcean with his brother Ben; earlier co-founded ServerStack.

  Founded DigitalOcean

• Moritz Magnus1 founding

  Founder of Continental AG.

  Founded Continental AG

• Moses Guttmann1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of [ClearML](/companies/clearml), an open-source MLOps platform for enterprise AI development and deployment. A serial entrepreneur with 20+ ...

  Founded ClearML

• Naftali Shoham1 founding

  Founder of Vayyar Imaging. 30+ years experience in signal processing and radio systems.

  Founded Vayyar

• Nathan Harding1 founding

  Nathan Harding co-founded Ekso Bionics in 2005, originally as Berkeley ExoWorks, with Homayoon Kazerooni and Russ Angold, all members of UC Berkeley's Robotics ...

  Founded Ekso Bionics

• Nathan Seidle1 founding

  Founder of SparkFun Electronics, started in 2003 from his college apartment.

  Founded SparkFun Electronics

• Neeraj Bhargava1 founding

  Co-founder of antuit.ai.

  Founded antuit.ai

• Neville Haynes1 founding

  Founder of Big Bend Telephone Company (BBTC) in 1960, a family-owned telecommunications company based in Alpine, Texas.

  Founded Big Bend Telecom

• Nick Robertson1 founding

  Co-founder of ASOS.

  Founded ASOS

• Nicolas Bonta1 founding

  Co-founder of Bitfarms (2017). Former Executive Chairman.

  Founded Bitfarms

• Nicolas G. Hayek1 founding

  Lebanese-Swiss businessman (1928-2010) who co-founded the Swatch Group in 1983 through the merger of ASUAG and SSIH, saving the Swiss watch industry from the qu...

  Founded The Swatch Group

• Nicolaus Radford1 founding

  Founded Nauticus Robotics, a NASDAQ-listed maritime robotics company. Developed autonomous underwater vehicles.

  Founded Nauticus Robotics

• Niles Noblitt1 founding

  Co-founder of Biomet, a medical device company founded in 1977 in Warsaw, Indiana.

  Founded Biomet

• Oleg Kivokurtsev1 founding

  Co-founder and Chief Business Development Officer of Promobot, a manufacturer of autonomous service robots. Founded Promobot in 2015 in Perm, Russia with partne...

  Founded Promobot

• Olivier Michel1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Cyberbotics Ltd.

  Founded Cyberbotics

• Omer Bar-Yohay1 founding

  Israeli entrepreneur who co-founded Eviation Aircraft in 2015 with Omri Regev and Aviv Tzidon, serving as CEO and leading early development of the Alice all-ele...

  Founded Eviation Aircraft

• Omer Davidi1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of [BeeHero](/companies/beehero), the world's leading provider of AI-powered precision pollination. Co-founded BeeHero with Itai Kanot (a sec...

  Founded BeeHero

• Omer Einav1 founding

  Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Motorika. Described the HealthSouth partnership as a defining moment in applying robotic technology to benefit patients w...

  Founded Motorika

• Omri Regev1 founding

  Israeli entrepreneur who co-founded Eviation Aircraft in 2015 with Omer Bar-Yohay and Aviv Tzidon. The three founders built Eviation into a Washington State-bas...

  Founded Eviation Aircraft

• Ossur Kristinsson1 founding

  Founder of Ossur (1971), the Icelandic prosthetics and orthotics company; an amputee and prosthetist who developed the Iceross silicone prosthetic-socket liner....

  Founded Embla Medical hf

• Otto Maly1 founding

  Founder of Bluebird Network. Chairman.

  Founded Bluebird Network

• Paul Allen1 founding

  Co-founder of Microsoft.

  Founded Microsoft

• Paul B. MacCready Jr.1 founding

  Founder of AeroVironment (founded 1971). Designer of human-powered aircraft including the Gossamer Condor.

  Founded AeroVironment

• Paul Delorme1 founding

  Founder of Air Liquide (founded 1902). Gathered 24 subscribers to create the company for the study and exploitation of Georges Claude processes.

  Founded Air Liquide

• Paul Dubrule1 founding

  Co-founder of Accor Group.

  Founded Accor Group

• Paul Groenland1 founding

  Founder of Focal Meditech.

  Founded Focal Meditech

• Paul W. Broome1 founding

  Founder of ENSCO, Inc. (engineering, science, and technology firm; founded 1969), whose ENSCO Rail division pioneered autonomous track-inspection systems.

  Founded ENSCO

• Per-Martin Holmgren1 founding

  Co-founder of Brokk. Together with his brother Lars Holmgren, he developed the world's first remote-controlled demolition robot in 1976 at Rönnskärsverken, a me...

  Founded Brokk

• Peter G Jorgensen1 founding

  Co-founder and CCO of Boozt.

  Founded Boozt

• Peter Hostettler1 founding

  Peter Hostettler is an economist and co-founder of Hocoma, a Swiss maker of robotic and sensor-based devices for movement therapy, founded in 1996 with Gery Col...

  Founded Hocoma

• Peter van der Made1 founding

  Founder of [BrainChip](/companies/brainchip) (ASX: BRN), the world's first company to commercialize a neuromorphic AI processor. A pioneer with 45+ years in com...

  Founded BrainChip

• Peter Wall1 founding

  Founder and former CEO of Argo Blockchain.

  Founded Argo Blockchain

• Peter Wurman1 founding

  Computer scientist; co-founder and CTO of Kiva Systems; later director of research at Sony AI, leading the Gran Turismo Sophy project.

  Founded Kiva Systems

• Qian Dongqi1 founding

  Founder of Ecovacs Robotics in 1998, building the Chinese home robotics company into a publicly listed enterprise with over 60% of the Chinese robot vacuum mark...

  Founded Ecovacs Robotics

• Qiu Xiaoxin1 founding

  CEO of Axera.

  Founded Axera

• Qu Jianguo1 founding

  Founder and Chairman of Origincell Technology Group Co., Ltd. (also known as Shanghai Yuanneng Cell / OriginCell), a Chinese biotechnology company focused on st...

  Founded Origincell

• R.E.B. Baylor1 founding

  Co-founder of Baylor University.

  Founded Baylor University

• Raghunandan Saran1 founding

  Founder of Ashok Leyland.

  Founded Ashok Leyland

• Ralph J Roberts1 founding

  Founder of Comcast Corporation.

  Founded Comcast

• Ralph Lauren1 founding

  American fashion designer, philanthropist, and billionaire businessman. Born Ralph Lifshitz on October 14, 1939 in the Bronx, New York. Founder, executive chair...

  Founded Ralph Lauren Corporation

• Ralph Saul1 founding

  Co-founder of Cigna (1982 merger).

  Founded Cigna (The Cigna Group)

• Ralph Zucker1 founding

  CEO and Founder of Bell Works (Somerset Development).

  Founded Bell Works (Somerset Development)

• Randy Altschuler1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Xometry.

  Founded Xometry

• Ray Harroff1 founding

  Co-founder of Biomet, a medical device company founded in 1977 in Warsaw, Indiana.

  Founded Biomet

• Ray Hirschbach1 founding

  Founded Hirschbach in 1935 in Sioux City, Iowa with a single truck hauling produce.

  Founded Hirschbach Motor Lines

• Ray Stata1 founding

  Co-founder of Analog Devices, Inc. (founded 1965) alongside Matthew Lorber, both MIT graduates. Stata served as CEO from founding until 1996 and as Executive Ch...

  Founded Analog Devices

• Raymond Miller1 founding

  Co-founder of Pratt Miller, an engineering company specializing in motorsports, defense, and automotive systems.

  Founded Pratt Miller

• Ren Jianxin1 founding

  Chinese businessman who founded ChemChina (originally Bluestar Company) in 1984 with a 10,000-yuan loan, building it into a Fortune Global 500 state-owned chemi...

  Founded China National Chemical Corporation

• Reuben C Baker1 founding

  Founder of Baker Hughes.

  Founded Baker Hughes

• Rhett Bennett1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Black Mountain Energy, established in 2007. Also CEO of Black Mountain Energy Storage.

  Founded Black Mountain Energy

• Ric Fulop1 founding

  Ric Fulop is co-founder and CEO of Desktop Metal, a metal 3D printing company founded in 2015. He was previously a General Partner at North Bridge and founded s...

  Founded Desktop Metal

• Ricardo Beira1 founding

  Co-founder of Distalmotion; from the EPFL Robotics Lab (PhD, EPFL).

  Founded Distalmotion

• Richard D. Fairbank1 founding

  Founder, Chairman, CEO and President of Capital One Financial Corporation. Founded Capital One and built it into a major financial services company.

  Founded Capital One

• Richard Greenhill1 founding

  Founder of Shadow Robot Company, pioneering dexterous robotic hand technology in London since 1987.

  Founded Shadow Robot Company

• Richard M Schulze1 founding

  Founder of Best Buy.

  Founded Best Buy

• Richard M Schulze1 founding

  Founder of Best Buy.

  Founded Best Buy

• Richard Palfinger1 founding

  Richard Palfinger founded Palfinger in 1932 as a repair shop for agricultural trailers, tippers and vehicle bodies. The company built its first crane in 1959.

  Founded Palfinger

• Richard Zhang1 founding

  Richard Zhang is CTO of Primech AI, a subsidiary of Primech Holdings that deployed its Hytron automated toilet cleaning robot at Temasek Polytechnic.

  Founded Primech AI

• Rick Smith1 founding

  Founder and CEO of [Axon Enterprise](/companies/axon) (NASDAQ: AXON), the public safety technology company behind TASER energy weapons, body-worn cameras, and E...

  Founded Axon Enterprise

• Rienk Landstra1 founding

  Co-founder of AgXeed, established 2018 in the Netherlands.

  Founded AgXeed

• Rob Goldiez1 founding

  Co-founder of Hirebotics (2015) and its longtime CEO; led the cobot-systems company for over a decade before retiring in 2026.

  Founded Hirebotics

• Rob Roy1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Switch. Founded Switch in 2000. Holds 950+ data center patents.

  Founded Switch

• Robert A Young1 founding

  Founder of ArcBest.

  Founded ArcBest

• Robert Bosch1 founding

  Founder of Bosch.

  Founded Robert Bosch

• Robert D Kilpatrick1 founding

  Co-founder of Cigna (1982 merger).

  Founded Cigna (The Cigna Group)

• Robert E Wood1 founding

  Founder of Allstate.

  Founded Allstate

• Robert J Ratliff1 founding

  Founder of AGCO Corporation.

  Founded AGCO Parts

• Robert J Shillman1 founding

  Founder of Cognex Corporation.

  Founded Cognex

• Robert J. Ratliff1 founding

  Co-founder of AGCO Corporation (established 1990). Led the management buyout of Deutz-Allis from Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz AG.

  Founded AGCO

• Robert Lynn1 founding

  Co-founder of DHL.

  Founded DHL Group

• Robert Lynn1 founding

  Co-founder of DHL.

  Founded DHL Group

• Robert Noyce1 founding

  Co-founder of Intel.

  Founded Intel Corporation

• Robert V. LaPenta1 founding

  Robert V. LaPenta (born August 20, 1945, Yonkers, New York) is an American aerospace and defense executive who co-founded [L-3 Communications](/companies/l3harr...

  Founded L3Harris

• Robin Li1 founding

  Co-founder of Baidu.

  Founded Baidu Apollo

• Robin Saxby1 founding

  Founder of Arm Holdings.

  Founded Arm Limited

• Rod Barman1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Lucid Vision Labs.

  Founded Lucid Vision Labs

• Rodolphe Hasselvander1 founding

  Rodolphe Hasselvander is the founder and CEO of Blue Frog Robotics, maker of Buddy, a social home robot.

  Founded Blue Frog Robotics

• Rodrigo Liang1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of SambaNova Systems.

  Founded SambaNova Systems

• Roger Beteille1 founding

  Co-founder of Airbus.

  Founded Airbus

• Roger Beteille1 founding

  Airbus founding father and visionary.

  Founded Airbus Commercial Aircraft

• Roger Hine1 founding

  Founder of Liquid Robotics, created the Wave Glider autonomous surface vehicle for long-duration ocean data collection.

  Founded Liquid Robotics

• Roland Siegwart1 founding

  Founder of BlueBotics (2001). EPFL professor whose Autonomous Systems Lab spun off the company.

  Founded BlueBotics

• Ronald G Wanek1 founding

  Founder of Ashley Furniture Industries.

  Founded Ashley Furniture Industries

• Ronald Wayne1 founding

  Co-founder of Apple Inc. (founded 1976). Left the company shortly after founding

  Founded Apple

• Rony Abovitz1 founding

  Engineer-entrepreneur who founded MAKO Surgical in 2004 and served as its CTO/chief visionary officer, building the RIO robotic-arm orthopedic platform before f...

  Founded Stryker

• Ross Nordeen1 founding

  Member of the xAI founding team announced in July 2023.

  Founded xAI

• Roy Chi Ping Chung1 founding

  Co-founded Techtronic Industries (TTI) with Horst Pudwill in 1985. Professor; awarded GBS BBS JP honours.

  Founded TTI

• Royal Little1 founding

  Founder of Textron, the American conglomerate with defense and industrial businesses.

  Founded Textron Systems

• Ruan Jixiang1 founding

  Founder and Chairman of Jack Technology (founded 2003), a Chinese industrial sewing machine and intelligent manufacturing company expanding into humanoid roboti...

  Founded Jack Technology

• Rudolph Schelling1 founding

  Co-founder (with Hermann Stäubli) of Schelling & Stäubli in 1892 in Horgen, Switzerland, the company that grew into the Stäubli Group - a global leader in indus...

  Founded Stäubli

• Russ Angold1 founding

  Russ Angold co-founded Ekso Bionics in 2005 (originally Berkeley ExoWorks, later Berkeley Bionics) with Homayoon Kazerooni and Nathan Harding, all from UC Berke...

  Founded Ekso Bionics

• Sam Chwarzynski1 founding

  Co-founder of Blockware Solutions (2017). CFO and President.

  Founded Blockware

• Sam Chwarzynski1 founding

  Co-founder of Blockware Solutions (2017). CFO and President.

  Founded Blockware Solutions

• Sam-Man Kim1 founding

  Founder of Daedong Corporation in 1947. Founded the company alongside his four brothers during Korea's post-war industrialization, initially as a metal casting ...

  Founded Daedong

• Samarth Maira1 founding

  Co-founder and CCO of Blueprint Data Centers.

  Founded Blueprint Data Centers

• Sami Haddadin1 founding

  Co-founder of Franka Emika (2016, Munich), now Franka Robotics. Created the Franka Panda (later FR3) torque-controlled 7-DOF robot arm, pioneering affordable co...

  Founded Franka Robotics

• Sander Pop1 founding

  Sander Pop is COO and co-founder of AgXeed, a developer of autonomous agricultural machines.

  Founded AgXeed

• Sandy Lerner1 founding

  American businesswoman and philanthropist; co-founded [Cisco Systems](/companies/cisco) in 1984 with her then-partner Leonard Bosack while both were staff at St...

  Founded Cisco Systems

• Sanford I Weill1 founding

  Founder of Citigroup.

  Founded Citigroup

• Sara Blakely1 founding

  Founder of Spanx.

  Founded Spanx

• Sarjoun Skaff1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO/CEO of Bossa Nova Robotics (now Badger Technologies), a retail robotics company.

  Founded Badger Technologies

• Scott Bledsoe1 founding

  American aerospace executive who founded and served as President of Blue Force Technologies, a U.S. defense company that designed and built the Fury adversarial...

  Founded Blue Force Technologies

• Scott Cook1 founding

  Co-founder of Intuit.

  Founded Intuit

• Sebastian Braga1 founding

  Founder of Braga Fresh (originally Braga Farms) in 1928 in Soledad, California, in the Salinas Valley. Arrived in South Monterey County in 1918 and started leas...

  Founded Braga Fresh Partners

• Seiuemon Inaba1 founding

  Founder and long-time President & CEO of FANUC Corporation. Joined Fujitsu (then Fuji Tsushinki) in 1946 and developed Japan's first numerical control (NC) syst...

  Founded FANUC Corporation

• Seiuemon Inaba1 founding

  Founder of FANUC.

  Founded FANUC Corporation

• Shaun Passley, PhD1 founding

  Founder, Chairman and CEO of ZenaTech (NASDAQ: ZENA). Over 25 years in software industry, 10+ years leading public companies. PhD in Business Management and MBA...

  Founded ZenaTech

• Shigenobu Nagamori1 founding

  Founder of Nidec Corporation (1973), the world's largest manufacturer of small precision motors — critical for robotic joint actuation, EVs, and industrial auto...

  Founded Nidec Corporation

• Simon Chen1 founding

  Group CEO and founder of ICE Cobotics, a commercial cleaning robotics company he established in 2011. With over 30 years in the commercial cleaning equipment in...

  Founded ICE Cobotics

• Simon Haddadin1 founding

  Co-founder and former CEO of Franka Emika (2016-2023), now Franka Robotics. Brother of Sami Haddadin. Led the company's commercialization of the Franka Panda ar...

  Founded Franka Robotics

• Sofia Paganelli1 founding

  Co-founder and Lead Firmware Engineer at Agade. Featured in company interviews discussing Agade's mission and exoskeleton development.

  Founded AGADE srl

• Soichiro Honda1 founding

  Founder of Honda Motor Company.

  Founded Honda

• Song Kiyoung1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of SUALAB, a Seoul-based deep learning machine vision company acquired by Cognex in October 2019. Later founded Holiday Robotics in 2024, a h...

  Founded SUALAB

• Stan Shih1 founding

  Co-founder of Acer Inc.

  Founded Acer

• Stan Shih1 founding

  Co-founder of Acer Inc.

  Founded Acer

• Stanley Tang1 founding

  Co-founder and Head of DoorDash Labs, DoorDash's internal robotics and automation organization, since November 2017. Previously served as Chief Product Officer ...

  Founded DoorDash

• Stefan Berendsen1 founding

  Co-founder of Basler AG in 1988 alongside Norbert Basler.

  Founded Basler

• Steph Tryphonas1 founding

  Co-founder of [Collaborative Robotics](/companies/collaborative-robotics) (brand name Cobot), the Santa Clara-based collaborative robotics company founded in 20...

  Founded Cobot Intel

• Stephane Bedard1 founding

  High-tech entrepreneur. Founder, President & CEO of B-TEMIA Inc. from January 2010 to September 2023 (13 years 9 months). Previously COO & Founder at Victhom.

  Founded B-TEMIA

• Stephen Elkind1 founding

  Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Beltline Energy.

  Founded Beltline Energy

• Steve Gorevan1 founding

  Co-founder of Honeybee Robotics in 1983. Pioneered planetary drilling and sampling systems for NASA missions.

  Founded Honeybee Robotics

• Steve Hill1 founding

  Founder of BlueHalo. Former CEO of AEgis Technologies.

  Founded BlueHalo

• Steve Jobs1 founding

  Co-founder of Apple Inc. (founded 1976). Pioneer of the personal computer revolution and later the iPhone and iPad.

  Founded Apple

• Steve Wozniak1 founding

  Co-founder of Apple Inc. (founded 1976). Designed the Apple I and Apple II personal computers.

  Founded Apple

• Steven Dodge1 founding

  Founder of American Tower.

  Founded American Tower

• Steven Rales1 founding

  Co-founder of Danaher Corporation.

  Founded Danaher Corporation

• Stewart Burton1 founding

  CEO and Co-founder of ZeroAlpha Solutions Ltd, leading the company's mission to provide expeditionary energy and C5ISR solutions to UK and European defence mark...

  Founded ZeroAlpha Solutions

• Tad McGeer1 founding

  Tad McGeer founded Aerovel Corporation in 2006 and serves as its president; the company makes the Flexrotor unmanned aircraft. He co-founded The Insitu Group in...

  Founded Insitu

• Tang Xiao'ou1 founding

  Founded SenseTime

• Tang Yang1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Shanghai STEP Electric, a Chinese motion control and robotics company.

  Founded Shanghai STEP Electric

• Tao Chen1 founding

  MIT CSAIL PhD in EECS whose research on in-hand object reorientation won the CoRL 2021 Best Paper Award and was published in Science Robotics. Previously studie...

  Founded Dexmate

• Ted Bunker1 founding

  Co-founder of Crown Castle (1994).

  Founded Crown Castle

• Ted Hsu1 founding

  Co-founder of ASUS.

  Founded ASUS

• Terry Gou1 founding

  Founder of Foxconn (Hon Hai Precision Industry, 1974); stepped down as chairman in 2019. Later ran for President of Taiwan.

  Founded Foxconn (Hon Hai)

• Theo Albrecht1 founding

  Co-founder of Aldi Sud.

  Founded Aldi Sud

• Thomas Doherty1 founding

  Co-founder of Aligned Data Centers (co-founded 2013).

  Founded Aligned (aligned.net)

• Thomas Edison1 founding

  Founder of General Electric.

  Founded GE Aerospace

• Thomas Edison1 founding

  Founder of General Electric.

  Founded GE Aerospace

• Thomas James Smith1 founding

  Thomas James Smith founded Smith & Nephew in 1856 in Kingston upon Hull as a dispensing chemist specializing in cod liver oil and later surgical dressings.

  Founded Smith+Nephew

• Thomas Mellon1 founding

  Founder of Mellon Bank (1869) predecessor of BNY Mellon.

  Founded BNY Mellon

• Thomas W Bastian Sr1 founding

  Founder of Bastian Solutions.

  Founded Bastian Solutions

• Tian Yu1 founding

  Tian Yu is the founder of Yuneec, an early electric flight company whose two-seat E430 aircraft received FAA certification, and of AutoFlightX, which he establi...

  Founded Yuneec

• Tianlan Shao1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Mech-Mind Robotics, developing 3D vision for industrial robots.

  Founded Mech-Mind Robotics

• Tim Mueller-Sim1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Bloomfield Robotics. Founded at Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute.

  Founded Bloomfield Robotics

• Tim Swift1 founding

  Founder of Roam Robotics. Mechanical engineer focused on human-centered robotic applications.

  Founded Roam Robotics

• Timothy Kiser1 founding

  President and Founder of Colo Atl.

  Founded Colo Atl

• Toby Pohlen1 founding

  Member of the xAI founding team announced in July 2023.

  Founded xAI

• Tokuo Kubo1 founding

  Co-founded Tokyo Electron (then Tokyo Electron Laboratories, Inc.) in November 1963.

  Founded Tokyo Electron

• Tom Bass1 founding

  Executive in the robotics industry, linked to registry companies.

  Founded Flirtey (SkyDrop)

• Tom Gallagher1 founding

  Managing Partner of Anchorstone Advisors.

  Founded Anchorstone Advisors

• Tom Proulx1 founding

  Co-founder of Intuit.

  Founded Intuit

• Tomohiro Fukuzawa1 founding

  Founder and CEO of SkyDrive Inc.

  Founded SkyDrive Inc.

• Tony Ressler1 founding

  Co-founder of Apollo Global Management.

  Founded Apollo Global Management, Inc.

• Tony Xu1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of DoorDash (founded 2013). Co-founded DoorDash with Stanley Tang and Andy Fang while at Stanford. Holds an MBA from Stanford GSB and a BS fr...

  Founded DoorDash

• Toshiyuki Inoko1 founding

  Founder and CEO of teamLab.

  Founded teamLab

• Trent D Ambrosio1 founding

  Founder of BluSky AI.

  Founded BluSky AI

• Tully Foote1 founding

  Co-created TurtleBot at Willow Garage in 2010. ROS developer and robotics researcher.

  Founded TurtleBot

• Tzu-Hsien Tung1 founding

  Co-founder of ASUS.

  Founded ASUS

• Valdis Valeika1 founding

  Founder and co-owner of Againer Ski.

  Founded Againer Ski

• Vikas Gupta1 founding

  Co-founder of Wonder Workshop (Play-i).

  Founded Wonder Workshop

• Vincent Vanhoucke1 founding

  Machine-learning researcher who founded and led the robotics research effort at Google/Google DeepMind; now a Distinguished Engineer at Waymo.

  Founded Google DeepMind

• Volker Bartenbach1 founding

  Co-founder of Auxivo AG, ETH Zurich exoskeleton researcher. Started working on exoskeleton technology in 2017 before founding Auxivo in 2019.

  Founded Auxivo

• Wallace Calvin Abbott1 founding

  Founder of Abbott Laboratories.

  Founded Abbott

• Wallace Calvin Abbott1 founding

  Founder of Abbott Laboratories.

  Founded Abbott

• Walter Boveri1 founding

  Co-founder of ABB (originally Brown Boveri & Cie), the Swiss-Swedish electrical equipment and robotics multinational.

  Founded ABB Robotics

• Walter Boveri1 founding

  Co-founder of ABB (Brown Boveri and Cie).

  Founded ABB

• Wang Chuanfu1 founding

  Founder of BYD.

  Founded BYD Robotics

• Wang Dongsheng1 founding

  Wang Dongsheng founded Beijing Oriental Electronics Group in April 1993, building on the state-owned Beijing Electron Tube Factory. The company was renamed BOE ...

  Founded BOE Technology

• Wang Tian1 founding

  Founder and CEO of RoboCT (Hangzhou RoboCT Technology Development Co., Ltd.), a Chinese exoskeleton robotics company founded in 2017 and headquartered in Hangzh...

  Founded RoboCT

• Wang Ye1 founding

  Co-founder of Segway-Ninebot. Also listed as CEO per Wikipedia.

  Founded Segway-Ninebot

• Warren A Bechtel1 founding

  Founder of Bechtel Corporation.

  Founded Bechtel Corporation

• Warren A Bechtel1 founding

  Founder of Bechtel Corporation.

  Founded Bechtel Corporation

• Warren Buffett1 founding

  American investor and philanthropist, chairman and former CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. Born August 30, 1930 in Omaha, Nebraska, Buffett is widely considered one o...

  Founded Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

• Wayne Hsieh1 founding

  Co-founder of ASUS.

  Founded ASUS

• Wes Cummins1 founding

  Chairman and CEO of Applied Digital Corporation, co-founder of the company.

  Founded Applied Digital

• Wes Swenson1 founding

  Founder and CEO of C7 Data Centers.

  Founded C7 Data Centers

• Will Marshall1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Planet Labs.

  Founded Planet Labs

• Will Marshall1 founding

  Co-founder and CEO of Planet Labs.

  Founded Planet Labs

• William Bargar1 founding

  Dr. William Bargar is an orthopedic surgeon who co-developed the ROBODOC surgical robot with Howard Paul at the University of California, Davis in 1986, pioneer...

  Founded ROBODOC

• William Besserdich1 founding

  Co-founder of Oshkosh Corporation (originally Wisconsin Duplex Auto Company) in 1917. Patented the four-wheel drive system and automatic locking differential.

  Founded Oshkosh Corporation

• William Boeing1 founding

  American aviation pioneer (1881–1956) who founded the Pacific Airplane Company in 1916, renamed [Boeing](/companies/boeing) a year later. He designed and flew t...

  Founded Boeing

• William C Durant1 founding

  Founder of General Motors.

  Founded General Motors

• William Colgate1 founding

  Founder of Colgate-Palmolive.

  Founded Colgate-Palmolive

• William E Boeing1 founding

  Founder of Boeing.

  Founded Boeing Commercial Airplanes

• William E Boeing1 founding

  Founder of Boeing.

  Founded Boeing Defense

• William G Fargo1 founding

  Co-founder of American Express.

  Founded American Express

• William J. Chorkey1 founding

  William J. Chorkey incorporated ACE Controls in 1963 with Alice Chorkey and Larry Ellis. In 1964 the company introduced and patented the first adjustable shock ...

  Founded ACE Controls

• William Lower1 founding

  Co-founder of Cleveland Clinic.

  Founded Cleveland Clinic

• William P Foley II1 founding

  Chairman of Fidelity National Financial.

  Founded Fidelity National Financial

• William Wallace Cargill1 founding

  Founder of Cargill.

  Founded Cargill

• Willis Carrier1 founding

  Inventor of modern air conditioning (1902) and founder of Carrier Global Corporation. Pioneered humidity control and air conditioning systems that enabled moder...

  Founded Carrier Global

• Wu Bo1 founding

  Founder and Chairman of Estun Automation (1993). Built Estun into China's largest domestic industrial robot manufacturer, ranked 6th globally by robot revenue. ...

  Founded Estun Automation

• Xu Zhigen1 founding

  Xu Zhigen is founder and CEO of NineRay Technology, a Shenzhen-registered embodied-intelligence company that makes humanoid robots and their core components. He...

  Founded NineRay Technology

• Yaerid Jacob1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Blueprint Data Centers.

  Founded Blueprint Data Centers

• Yang Huanming1 founding

  Co-founder of BGI Group (Beijing Genomics Institute), founded in 1999. Geneticist who led China's participation in the Human Genome Project.

  Founded BGI Group

• Yataro Iwasaki1 founding

  Founder of Mitsubishi.

  Founded Mitsubishi Heavy Industries

• Yi Cui1 founding

  Founder of Amprius Technologies.

  Founded Amprius Technologies, Inc.

• Yin Rongzao1 founding

  Former actual controller, chairman, and general manager of Borunte Robot. Directly held 21.65% of shares; controlled 39.66% via Rongzao No. 1 fund. Dismissed af...

  Founded Borunte Robot

• Ying Jianren1 founding

  Founder of Zotye Auto in 2005; established the company under Zotye Holding Group to produce automobiles for the Chinese market.

  Founded Zotye Auto

• Yingzhe Ding1 founding

  Co-founder and former President of Baicells Technologies, a Beijing-based telecoms equipment firm founded in 2014 that supplies 4G/5G base stations and routers ...

  Founded Baicells Technologies

• Yoshisuke Aikawa1 founding

  Founder of Nissan Motor.

  Founded Nissan Motor

• Yu Jun1 founding

  Co-founder of BGI Group (Beijing Genomics Institute), founded in 1999 to participate in the Human Genome Project.

  Founded BGI Group

• Yuanbo She1 founding

  Founder, CEO, and robot system architect at AICRobo.

  Founded AICRobo

• Yuhuai Wu1 founding

  Member of the xAI founding team announced in July 2023.

  Founded xAI

• Yuzhe Qin1 founding

  Co-founder and CTO of Dexmate, a Santa Clara robotics startup building general-purpose mobile robots with dexterous hands. UC San Diego PhD in robotics speciali...

  Founded Dexmate

• Zachary Bradford1 founding

  Co-founder and former CEO of CleanSpark (CLSK), America's largest publicly-traded Bitcoin miner by hashrate. Led CleanSpark from 2019 until his resignation in A...

  Founded CleanSpark

• Zachary Bradley1 founding

  Co-founder of CleanSpark.

  Founded CleanSpark

• Zeb Evans1 founding

  Entrepreneur and founder in the technology sector, linked to registry companies.

  Founded ClickUp

• Zhao Jianjun1 founding

  Co-founder of TP-Link Technologies.

  Founded TP-Link Technologies

• Zheng Wang1 founding

  Founder and CEO of Wisson Robotics.

  Founded Wisson Robotics

• Zhou Yushu1 founding

  Chinese researcher and venture capitalist with a PhD from Stanford University in human-computer interaction and cognitive psychology. Partner at Zhenzhi Venture...

  Founded Ropet AI

• Zhu Hong1 founding

  Zhu Hong is the co-founder and CEO of Enabot, a Shenzhen-based family companion robotics company she founded in 2018. With an engineering background and prior e...

  Founded Enabot

• Zhu Jing1 founding

  Founder and Chairman of Haima Automobile Group, serving as Chairman since June 2019 and originally as Chairman from 1998 to 2013. He established Haima Automobil...

  Founded Haima Automobile

• Zihang Dai1 founding

  Member of the xAI founding team announced in July 2023.

  Founded xAI