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MIT Innovator Under 35 and 2x YC founder building Posh Robotics after Volansi exit
Credibility
Domain Expertise · 100th percentile
- Named MIT Technology Review Innovator Under 35, reflecting notable public recognition.
Relationship Matrix
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Founder score
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Y Combinator W22 alum via Posh Robotics.
- 98%Probability of being accurate (98%)Current Co-Founder and CEO of Posh Robotics (YC W22), an active energy storage startup.
- 97%Probability of being accurate (97%)Past co-founder of Volansi (volans-i), a drone company acquired by Sierra Nevada Corporation.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Posh Robotics and Volansi both had co-founders, confirming collaborative founding.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Volansi was acquired by Sierra Nevada Corporation, representing a confirmed exit.
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Volansi raised $75M in total venture funding before its acquisition.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Posh Robotics raised $4.4M in total funding including a $3.8M seed round led by Y Combinator and Metaplanet.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Named MIT Technology Review Innovator Under 35, reflecting notable public recognition.
- 55%Probability of being accurate (55%)Stack Overflow account identified for Wesley Zheng with 1 reputation.
Investor score
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Publicly identified as an active angel investor in climate tech, AI, and robotics with portfolio companies including Alto Pharmacy and Timeback AI.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Has been an active angel investor since January 2022, representing approximately 3 years of investing experience.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Portfolio includes at least 2 named companies (Alto Pharmacy and Timeback AI), representing confirmed individual investments.
What you likely need
You're at a pivotal inflection point: a credible deep-tech exit under your belt, a live climate-tech company with real ARR, and a Series A to close. The Festival events most valuable to you are small, high-trust dinners and roundtables that put you in the same room as institutional climate-tech VCs, fellow YC energy founders who've crossed the seed-to-A bridge, and senior battery or manufacturing operators you could hire. You'll also benefit from structured sessions that help you sharpen your Volansi exit narrative and MIT Under 35 positioning into a pitch that lands with Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Congruent Ventures-tier funds.
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 climate-tech Series A dinner with partners from Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Congruent Ventures, and Prelude Ventures to pressure-test Posh Robotics' EV battery recycling pitch and get candid feedback on what moves them from interest to term sheet at the $10–20M range
- introsA YC W22/S22 energy and climate founder roundtable for warm introductions to Series A investors who have already backed YC battery, grid, and materials companies through the seed-to-A transition
- positioningA deep-tech founder positioning dinner where 6–8 founders who've had acquisition exits (like Volansi's Sierra Nevada Corporation deal) workshop how to feature their exit story prominently in Series A pitch decks to signal de-risked execution to institutional investors
- hiringA Posh Robotics hiring dinner with senior battery engineers and manufacturing leads from Tesla Energy, Redwood Materials, and Li-Cycle alumni networks to recruit 2–3 operational hires ahead of a Series A close
- introsAn MIT Technology Review Innovator Under 35 alumni happy hour with fellow honorees building deep-tech hardware and climate companies to compare fundraising strategies and trade warm intros to institutional climate-tech investors
- tacticalA YC climate-tech angel syndicate roundtable for YC founders actively angel investing in battery, robotics, and energy startups to formalize co-investment structures, pool deal flow, and build the investor network ahead of Posh's Series A
- tacticalA deep-tech revenue scaling dinner with founders who've pushed hardware and materials companies from $1–2M ARR to $4–5M ARR to pressure-test the specific commercial moves Posh Robotics can make to hit the revenue traction threshold institutional climate investors now require at Series A
- hiringA Stanford PhD deep-tech founder dinner spanning robotics, energy storage, and advanced manufacturing to trade Series A fundraising playbooks and surface hiring leads for senior battery engineering roles