Aemon
Aemon is a YC Winter 2026 (W26) company. Based in San Francisco, CA, USA. Team of 3.
About Aemon
Summary
Aemon builds an autonomous AI research engineer for B2B technical teams. It replaces human-led R&D cycles by generating, testing, and iterating on thousands of solution approaches at machine speed, targeting hard engineering and optimization problems. The system defines success criteria, studies current research literature, runs experiments inside a customer's codebase, and delivers production-ready technical breakthroughs.
Go-to-market
Engineering and research teams at B2B companies are the buyers, reached through direct outreach and demos, with a two-week onboarding process from first call to initial technical results.
From the Y Combinator listing
The Forward-Deployed AI Research Engineer
Aemon is the first autonomous research engineer that delivers state-of-the-art solutions to your engineering problems. It generates, tests, and evolves thousands of approaches at machine speed to discover optimal solutions beyond what human experts can find. Aemon already set a new world record on an NP-hard math optimization problem with <$10 of compute, beating the previous record set by Google DeepMind in 2025. Ray and Richard (twin brothers) dropped out of UWaterloo and UIUC to build Aemon. They published at top AI conferences like ICLR and EMNLP before turning 20.
Facts
- B2B / B2B
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- 3
- Active
- Early
Founders (2)
- Ray Xu
- Richard Zhou
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