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Tech Students, alumni and founders from across the world who are working towards great things.
Jan 28, 2024
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Anirudhh Ramesh
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Bloom (YC X25), ETH ESOP Scholar & Robotics. Meet David.
Watch now (52 mins) | After studying aerospace/robotics at Delft & ETHZ, David switched to buildings apps like Giftit & Fireview. He just finished YC…
Sep 18, 2025
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Anirudhh Ramesh
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PhD Drop-out, Palantir & Upsolve (YC W24). Meet Ka Ling.
Ka Ling dropped out of her EPFL PhD to work on more fast-paced, direct-impact projects at Palantir. She then co-founded Upsolve AI (YC W24). She also…
Apr 25, 2025
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Anirudhh Ramesh
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ETH AI Fellow, Soft Robotics Lab & Building Mimic. Meet Elvis.
Elvis switched from a CS masters to robotics, when he joined the ETH AI Center Doctoral Fellowship. He then went all in to build dexterous hands …
Apr 7, 2025
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Anirudhh Ramesh
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Building Browser Use, going through YC & raising a $17M Seed. Meet Magnus.
After a failed start-up, Magnus built Browser Use (YC W25) at ETH Student Project House together with Greg. Their launch went viral, they got into YC …
Mar 24, 2025
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Anirudhh Ramesh
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YouTube, 4x Google and OpenMined. Meet Irina.
Irina started coding at 10. Since then, she landed multiple internships at YouTube & Google (even in the US!). She did her Master thesis at Google…
Nov 25, 2024
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Anirudhh Ramesh
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Physics at ETHZ, Google Quantum AI & MIT. Meet Alexander.
Born in Switzerland, Alexander studied physics at ETH Zurich before starting an MIT PhD. In parallel, he joined Google Quantum AI, where he aims to make…
Sep 17, 2024
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Anirudhh Ramesh
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TUM.ai, MIT and Y Combinator. Meet Alex.
Alex started seriously coding right before college and got into AI even later. Still, he managed to achieve impressive things such as leading TUM.ai…
Aug 7, 2024
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Anirudhh Ramesh
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Switching from business to tech, building Stacksync & joining YCombinator. Meet Ruben.
Ruben’s been selling since he was a kid. This led him to St. Gallen to study business. He then switched to Data Science at EPFL (🤯) and is now building…
Jul 19, 2024
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Anirudhh Ramesh
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Dropping out TUM to build & ship. Meet Robert.
Robert dropped out of TUM when ChatGPT came out. He joined a hacker house, went viral for his local LLM demos and launched Fixkey.ai. He just got into…
Jun 19, 2024
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Anirudhh Ramesh
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