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Founder @riskcube_ai (YC F24) | Ex-PhD researcher in AI for insurance @ TU Munich

San Francisco, CA
Joined November 2017
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Let's build the biggest reinsurance company in the world in America and make innovation insurable.
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If you want to get into YC, don't focus on getting into YC. Focus on building stuff and understanding your users. That's what gets you into YC.
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day 4&5 in SF > inspired by the meeting w/@andreicscu > visited @pebble_bed for the second time to meet @keithmadams 🥹 > intense internal meetings with my team… and stayed awake until 5am > met @jharohit! feel like I should think about my goals as a journalist more clearly > went to the Korean<>Japanese founders meetup and was the Luma check-in girl – at San Francisco, CA
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BREAKING: Robinhood launches a publicly traded fund focused on investing in Y Combinator startups.
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Y Combinator @ycombinator Launches of the Week: (This round-up is for informational purposes only, and in order of the date/time of the launch, from earliest to latest.) 1) Prized @useprized: Founded by Marinos Eliades and Hudson Griffith @hudson_gri, Prized lets non-engineers build, deploy, and share secure internal tools with AI, no engineering required. Know More At: prized.dev 2) Screenpipe @screenpipe: Founded by Louis Beaumont @louis030195, Screenpipe records how you work and turns that into agents. Know More At: screenpipe.com 3) RiskCube @riskcube_ai: Founded by Andrei Craciunescu @andreicscu, RiskCube is an independent commercial insurance brokerage for startups and high-growth companies. Know More At: riskcube.com 4) OneSignal @onesignal: Founded by George Deglin @gdeglin and Long Vo @vostalgic, OneSignal is the leading omnichannel customer engagement solution, powering personalized customer journeys across mobile and web push notifications, in-app messaging, SMS, and email. Know More At: onesignal.com 5) Definite @UseDefinite: Founded by Mazin Al-Ani, Farhan Ur Rehman, and Gurshabd Singh Varaich @GurshabdV, Definite is the most accurate financial agent for reporting. Know More At: usedefinite.com 6) Skyvern @skyvernai: Founded by Suchintan Singh and Shuchang Zheng, Skyvern is an open-source AI Agent to automate browser workflows via an API. Know More At: skyvern.com Post: menlotimes.com/post/y-combin… Source: ycombinator.com/launches
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OpenAI is offering $2M in tokens for every company in the summer '26 batch. We're not sure if we'll do this again, so we've extended the deadline to apply to the summer batch to May 25.
OpenAI is offering $2M in tokens to every YC company in the spring and summer batches. We extended the summer deadline to May 25 so more founders can get in on it. ycombinator.com/apply
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Big Announcement:
We are building the world’s first hotel on the Moon and we’ve officially selected the launch provider for our first lunar mission. Reserve your spot now at gru.space/reserve
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Y Combinator's Summer 2026 request for startups:
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Of our @Forbes AI 50 list...forbes.com/lists/ai50/ 88% are US-based 64% are Bay Area-based 50% are San Francisco-based 14% are New York City-based Conclusion...if you're building an AI company, build it in San Francisco *I live in San Francisco so I'm biased
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Nuclear power will make sustained human presence in space possible. We will survive the lunar might, endure Martian sandstorms, and venture into the stars. 🚀🇺🇸
Today, we are releasing new guidance to Federal agencies for establishing a National Initiative for American Space Nuclear Power, as called for by President Trump’s EO on Ensuring American Space Superiority. Nuclear power in space will give us the sustained electricity, heating, and propulsion essential to a permanent presence on the Moon, Mars, and beyond. whitehouse.gov/wp-content/up…
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Thank you @POTUS for the shout out!
🇺🇸🌕 Jesus Trump on Orthodox Easter isn’t all we’ve got tonight… Trump now seems to be hinting at a Trump Hotel all-inclusive resort on the moon. Exciting times!
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Insurance Brokerage is the biggest opportunity in AI Autopilot
sequoia put out a blog post called "services is the new software" look at this map of over $1T in services being replaced by AI agents
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🚨 OpenAI just made history: $122 BILLION in a single funding round — the largest ever. To put that in perspective: The entire European VC market invested €66.2 billion over the whole last year. One company just raised nearly double what every VC firm in Europe invested combined… in one round.
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sequoia put out a blog post called "services is the new software" look at this map of over $1T in services being replaced by AI agents
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Some of the founders building autopilots across these verticals 👆@ryanjdaniels @mitch_troy @jakeserval @BrendanFoody @davepaffenholz @andreiserban @justindross @ChKashifAli @nicckopp @StephenHedlund @askvladi Who should we add?
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New YC homepage design just launched! 👀 The last few years have been a return to our roots at YC, so we wanted to capture that with our new site, and show what it's really like to go through the batch. There's also a bunch of fun easter eggs throughout – thread below!
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With rules like this, who would invest in a German startup? Not me.
another German investment, another 6 hours of a notary reading every single word of all the documents out loud to each party to the transaction after we’ve all agreed on the docs
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I'm thrilled to announce that YC will be visiting Europe's no. 1 university - Imperial College London - on Jan 28th Get your ticket here: events.ycombinator.com/yc-im… (although it pains me to say that as an Oxford alum 😭)
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