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Known for these resultsRole75%Role is parsed from founder titles in yc.db. Known for 75% 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.School75%School is matched from bios, case-sensitive for acronyms. 75% of these rows have at least one match.
- Adrian Lucas Tariel Stoica@AdrianLTStoicaFounder · AxelrodS26B2B · San Francisco
- Virat Singh@viratttFounder/CEO · Financial DatasetsS26B2B · New York
- Elia SaquandFounder/CEO · VibeFlowS25B2B · San Francisco
- Shivesh GuptaFounder/CTO · FrekilX25Healthcare · San Francisco
FOUNDERROLEBATCHINDUSTRYLOCATIONTEAMX_url
Adrian Lucas Tariel StoicaAxelrodFounderSummer 2026B2BSan Francisco, United States2https://x.com/AdrianLTStoicaVirat SinghFinancial DatasetsFounder/CEOSummer 2026B2BNew York, United States1https://x.com/viratttElia SaquandVibeFlowFounder/CEOSummer 2025B2BSan Francisco, United States3—Shivesh GuptaFrekilFounder/CTOSpring 2025HealthcareSan Francisco, United States2—
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Saman Sayahpour
Founder·Axelrod
PRIMARY INFO
RoleFounder· not in title
Team size2
BatchSummer 2026
LocationSan Francisco, United States
Company statusActive
StageEarly
BIO
Founder at Axelrod (YC S26). Dropped out of Carnegie Mellon's B.S. in Logic & Computation. Previously researched causal machine learning, prediction markets, photonic computing and collective decision-making. Admitted to study mathematics at the University of Vienna at 14.
Ex-company, school and discipline below are derived from this bio. Nothing is inferred when the bio is missing.
BACKGROUND
CredentialsDropout / Thiel
DisciplineEngineerKeyword match from the bio text, not a classifier.
TRACK RECORD
First YC company on record
COMPANY CONTEXT
AxelrodBoutique Hotels that run themselves
Co-foundersAdrian Lucas Tariel Stoica@AdrianLTStoica
