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Known for these resultsRole67%Role is parsed from founder titles in yc.db. Known for 67% of these rows — the rest have no title at all, mostly 2019–2023. Those rows stay in the result and are counted as Unknown, never as No.Bio100%Bio coverage: 100% of these founders have a bio on their YC profile. Every bio-derived facet (ex-company, school, credentials, discipline) is Unknown for the rest.Ex-company100%Ex-company is matched from bios with employment context (ex-, formerly, worked at). 100% of these rows have at least one match.School50%School is matched from bios, case-sensitive for acronyms. 50% of these rows have at least one match.
- Mugdhaa PatankarFounder/CTO · Agent FMS26B2B · San Francisco
- Ketan Agrawal@_ketan0Founder · /dev/fastW26B2B · San Francisco
- Yuta Baba@yuta__babaFounder · Carrot LabsW26B2B · San Francisco
- Stefan SchaffFounder/CEO · CodycoF25B2B
- Richard MengFounder/CEO · ROEW24B2B · San Francisco
- Arjun SahaiFounder/CTO · Surface LabsS23B2B · San Francisco
FOUNDERROLEBATCHINDUSTRYLOCATIONTEAMX_url
Mugdhaa PatankarAgent FMFounder/CTOSummer 2026B2BSan Francisco, United States2—Ketan Agrawal/dev/fastFounderWinter 2026B2BSan Francisco, United States4https://x.com/_ketan0Yuta BabaCarrot LabsFounderWinter 2026B2BSan Francisco, United States2https://x.com/yuta__babaStefan SchaffCodycoFounder/CEOFall 2025B2BUnknown4—Richard MengROEFounder/CEOWinter 2024B2BSan Francisco, United States9—Arjun SahaiSurface LabsFounder/CTOSummer 2023B2BSan Francisco, United States6—
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Stefan Schaff
Founder/CEO·Codyco
PRIMARY INFO
RoleFounder/CEO
Team size4
BatchFall 2025
LocationBY, Germany
Company statusActive
StageEarly
BIO
Stefan is the Co-founder of Codyco, based in Munich. A veteran data/AI leader, he has delivered multi-million-euro analytics programs for DAX-listed companies and scaled cross-functional teams from 3 to 12. At Motius (2020–2025), he served as Head of Data & AI, acting as Project Owner and Solution Architect on a €2M rebuild of Siemens’ global invoice analytics (10M invoices/month, 1,000+ users) and leading cloud migrations from SAP to Snowflake/AWS/Glue.
Ex-company, school and discipline below are derived from this bio. Nothing is inferred when the bio is missing.
BACKGROUND
Credentialsnone mentioned
Disciplinenot detectedKeyword match from the bio text, not a classifier.
TRACK RECORD
First YC company on record
COMPANY CONTEXT
CodycoThe AI Reservation Team for Hotel Groups
