savant epoch 1 companies (please mention savant when reaching out to founders)

NameCEO's contactFounderHighlightsQuestTopics
Deft Robotic shane@deftai.co SHINHEE (SHANE) Lee

Jung Won Shin		Former Berkeley EECS, Tesla Mechanical & Hyundai self-driving. Pilots with 3 customers, deploying on customer site end of April.Deft Robotics builds $10K wheeled humanoids to package e-commerce orders. It solves the scarcity of real-world, manipulation robotics data by taking a remote teleoperation-first approach to deployments before training embodied AI modelsrobotics
Droneforgechesterzelaya@berkeley.eduChester ZelayaPrev UC Berkeley Mecheng + EECS, 2x founder. 26 active users, 700+ on waitlist, 1 enterprise pilot.Instantly turning any drone into an autonomous, high-ROI asset. https://thedroneforge.comrobotics
General Bionixvaishak.thimakapura@gmail.com Vaishak Kumar

Kobi Kelemen		Former ML tech lead at Google & ML engineer at Irreverent Labs. Built a hardware-agnostic autonomous system. Signed LOIs with an industrial arm manufacturer and a contract manufacturer.Cursor for robotsrobotics
Thermopylae yehor@thermopylaespace.comYehor Balytskyi

Alexandre Carlhammar 		Ukrainian engineer + CEASAR Stanford researcher. Prev built space GPUs, robotic arms, rocket engines, and interceptors. 2 US pilots in pipeline with validation from 10+ commanders, soldiers, and drone operators in Ukraine.Mobile ballistic drones for military and private security personneldefenserobotics
Ark Healthivanhchen@gmail.com Ivan ChenSeasoned team from Rightway, CVS, Optum, UofM Physician & CMU PhD in AI. Secured $20k in paid pilot and on track to secure another $200k. Supported by the University of Chicago and the University of MichiganAI-powered platform that navigates more cancer patients into clinical trialshealthcare
IQ Surgicaljay@iqsurgical.ai Jay

Rich Timm

Vivek Buch		Stanford Neurosurgery spin-out, Start-X Founders, Former J&J with 70+patents, Surgical software (enterprise SaaS), 12 data centers, 50% round filled.Surgical co-pilot powered by a multimodal foundation model that can provide novel metrics, insights and analytics to the surgeons in real-timehealthcaremedical
Axonara Biosciencesedward@axonara.bioEdward FisherRepeat bio founder (prev. at Biogenesis), seasoned scientific R&D leader, and UCSF neurologist. Partnered with 4 U.S. academic medical centers and Mexico’s NIH, with 2 institutional review board (IRB)-approved studies ongoing and 3 in the pipeline.Point of care genetic diagnostics in neurologybiotech
Anomaly Biosamyak@anomalybio.com Samyak

Armaan 		National University of Singapore scholars, $20k in paid pilot for first ingredient with Mars Inc ($100k in planned pilot) and wet lab collaborations with NUS and UIUC funded labs.Anomaly produces bio-designed ingredients to replace scarce animal-and plant-derived ingredients in nutrition & beautybiotech
Biocomputechief@biocomputeinc.com Anagha RajeshTeam of 4 engineers got to proof of concept and $500,000 worth of LOIs using less than $50k in funding and a home lab.Making data centers 1000x more space and energy efficient using biomolecules for storage and compute ai (infrastructure)biotechclimate
Industrial AIjose@industrialai.techJose Dos Santos

Rodrigo Valladares
Rodrigo Gaona
Founders with manufacturing & software experience at Tesla, Medtronic, and startups. Onboarded 1 large customer as a design partner with 8 automotive manufacturers in pipeline totaling >$17M in potential ARR.AI co-pilot to help factories repair their machines and reduce downtime.ai (manufacturing)
Vibejacobtrebil@yahoo.com Jacob TrebilHarvard AI Safety Team. $1.4k in Vibe pre-orders, 450+ waitlists, and 1.1m+ views in under a week since launching. AI Wellness Copilotai (consumer hardware)
Tribalsaigurrapu18@gmail.com Sai Gurappu
Aayush Naik
Apple senior engineers, 2x founder with >100k ARR. MVP launch with 8000 users signed up within 48 hours, strong interest from engineers in enteprises.AI-powered knowledge retention for legacy codebasesai (software)