# Jacob Zietek: founder, Ixian Robotics

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Founder and CEO of Ixian Robotics, which he announced in September 2026 to deploy intelligent robots in support of American reindustrialization. Previously an Engineering Fellow on Andreessen Horowitz's American Dynamism fund, and before that a founding team member at Persona AI working on robot manipulation for industrial humanoids. Studied computer science at Purdue University, where he researched gaze control for visuolinguomotor policies at the CoRAL Lab and founded ML@Purdue.

- **Nationality:** American
- **Verification posture:** reported

## Current roles (1)

- [Ixian Robotics](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/ixian-robotics.md) Founder & CEO (secondary-verified)

## Foundings (1)

- [Ixian Robotics](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/ixian-robotics.md)

See all founders: [/founders](https://registry.deploy.report/founders.md)

## Former / Previously (3)

- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/andreessen-horowitz.md) Engineering Fellow, American Dynamism (secondary-verified)
- [Persona AI](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/persona-ai.md) Founding team member, robot manipulation (secondary-verified)
- [Shield AI](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/shield-ai.md) Engineering Intern, reinforcement learning (_reported, not verified_)

## Education (1)

- Purdue University BS, Computer Science (? to 2023)

## Sources (1)

1. https://zietek.dev/blogs/starting_ixian.html


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