Founder @riskcube_ai (YC F24) | Ex-PhD researcher in AI for insurance @ TU Munich
San Francisco, CA
Joined November 2017
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Andrei Craciunescu retweeted
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.
Andrei Craciunescu retweeted
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
Andrei Craciunescu retweeted
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
Andrei Craciunescu retweeted
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
Andrei Craciunescu retweeted
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
Andrei Craciunescu retweeted
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
Andrei Craciunescu retweeted
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!
Andrei Craciunescu retweeted
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
Andrei Craciunescu retweeted
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?
Andrei Craciunescu retweeted
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!
Andrei Craciunescu retweeted
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 😭)
Andrei Craciunescu retweeted
Applications for the YC Winter 2026 batch are now open!
Apply by November 10: ycombinator.com/apply
Andrei Craciunescu retweeted
I’m thrilled to announce @reductoai’s $75M Series B led by @a16z, which brings our total funding to $108M.
Just five months after our Series A, we've surpassed 1 billion pages processed and grown our monthly volume 6x. We now process hundreds of millions of pages every month for some of the world's best AI teams.
Here's what we've learned and where we're headed 🧵
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We raised $25M in Series A funding, led by @a16z ( @joeschmidtiv, @astrange)
@furtheraicom is building the first AI workspace for Insurance 🧵
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We’re ready to add to our team at Alt Cap! We love being a small team and want to stay small-ish forever, but we have more to do these days than we can manage so it’s time to grow.
A bit about us:
- We’re investing out of our $275M fund II in San Francisco; mostly seed and series A, but there are no hard and fast rules. We just want to build something great and work with founders who inspire us.
- We love what we do; we could (and do) talk about startups and venture all day. For better or for worse, our work lives and personal lives are deeply integrated and we’re thrilled about it.
- Joy comes before excellence. We want to be as good as possible at what we do conditioned on it never coming before loving our work and our lives. We strongly believe you can have both.
- We think fortune favors the bold, that a small number of things make most of the difference, and special people are what make special things happen.
- We’re highly independent people who love our time together. No one here wants to be told what to do, but no one here is a lone wolf. We think, grow, and improve as a team.
A bit about you:
- You’re friendly and empathetic, but you’re competitive and want to be great.
- You’re a student of startups and business. You know a little about a lot in tech, and when you don’t understand something that you can tell is important you’re driven to learn about it.
- You value signal over noise. You don’t like being busy for the sake of being busy, you prioritize sanity for yourself and people around you. You’re okay to be patient and wait for great.
- You never root against a company under any circumstance; you have a deep respect for what every founder is pouring into their startup.
- You’ve done some work (maybe you were a founder or a VC before) but your glue isn’t dry and you strongly feel that your formative work years are still ahead of you.
- You’re highly flexible and want a fun journey more than a particular destination.
- You’re allergic to the politics of deal attribution and just want to win as a firm.
- You’re motivated to be hugely successful, for whatever reason is meaningful to you.
If you or someone you know might be a great fit please get in touch!