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74th percentile
Serial YC founder (W21 exit) now building Vision Lab at the intersection of robotics and physical AI
Credibility
Operator · 100th percentile
- Vision Lab is featured on the official Y Combinator company directory as an active YC-backed startup building the industrial data layer for robotics.
- Current co-founder and CEO of Vision Lab (YC X25), actively running the company.
- Y Combinator X25 alum — both Vision Lab and LineWise are YC-backed companies.
- Vision Lab and LineWise both have co-founders, including Zhichu Ren, Napon Tang-aromsuk, and Wenbo Zhang.
- Serial founder of three companies: Vision Lab, LineWise, and Uiflow (YC W21).
Relationship Matrix
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Founder score
- 98%Probability of being accurate (98%)Y Combinator X25 alum — both Vision Lab and LineWise are YC-backed companies.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Vision Lab is featured on the official Y Combinator company directory as an active YC-backed startup building the industrial data layer for robotics.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Current co-founder and CEO of Vision Lab (YC X25), actively running the company.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Vision Lab and LineWise both have co-founders, including Zhichu Ren, Napon Tang-aromsuk, and Wenbo Zhang.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Raised $2.3M in total funding across LineWise (YC X25) with no known post-money valuation.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Serial founder of three companies: Vision Lab, LineWise, and Uiflow (YC W21).
- 72%Probability of being accurate (72%)Uiflow (YC W21), a no-code platform he co-founded, was acquired.
What you likely need
You're a current YC X25 founder running two active startups at the intersection of robotics, physical AI, and manufacturing — a rare combination of operator depth and technical domain expertise. The highest-leverage events for you right now are those that accelerate fundraising for Vision Lab's next round, connect you with robotics and deep-tech investors, and help you recruit technical talent who can work in industrial environments. You'd also benefit from peer roundtables with other YC founders building in physical AI and robotics to share go-to-market playbooks for selling into factories.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- fundraisingA YC X25 founder dinner to swap fundraising strategies and warm intros to Series A investors actively backing physical AI and robotics.
- fundraisingA roundtable with deep-tech and robotics-focused seed investors (e.g., Playground Global, Toyota Ventures, Lux Capital) to pitch Vision Lab's industrial data layer thesis.
- tacticalA peer dinner with YC founders building in manufacturing, industrial AI, and physical AI to share customer acquisition playbooks for selling into factory floors.
- hiringAn MIT Sloan alumni happy hour in San Francisco to recruit operations and go-to-market talent with manufacturing or industrial backgrounds.
- positioningA McKinsey alumni dinner focused on enterprise go-to-market strategies for selling AI products to large manufacturers and industrial conglomerates.
- introsA Southeast Asia–founded founder networking night to build relationships with Thai and regional investors and corporate partners for factory partnerships in SEA.
- hiringA technical hiring workshop with other YC robotics and AI founders to share sourcing strategies for computer vision and robotics ML engineers.