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Business

Ladder

Website

Founded 2025Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

Ladder is an AI personal assistant for in-home sales. It takes notes on the in-person conversation and helps reps close more deals, improve with each pitch, and deliver and generate more leads.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08

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Founders & team

Previously MAIVE (Manufacturing AI Vision Engine), Maive

Company history As recorded 2026-11-08

David Tondreau

Founder/CEO

David is the co-founder and CEO of Maive. He started his career as a manufacturing engineer at Rolls-Royce where he once uncovered quality issues due to missing paperwork that stopped production for a week. After obtaining a Masters in Engineering from UC Berkeley, David spent five years at Dexterity AI, a unicorn robotics startup. He began as a software engineer and ended as a senior manager leading product engineering. David holds 15 patents spanning robotics and aerospace engineering.

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Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

Will Cray

Founder/CTO

Will is the co-founder and CTO of Maive. Previously, Will was the Machine Learning and Computer Vision tech lead at Dexterity, a unicorn robotics company. Before Dexterity, Will founded his own computer vision and machine learning startup while pursuing a Master’s in Machine Learning at UT Austin. He started his career at Intel as a software engineer on their autonomous driving platform. At 13, Will founded a business repairing broken Xbox 360’s and selling them on eBay.

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Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

2team members reported

Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

Founded 2025 · Source

News & product activity

Cohort membership

Winter 2025

Winter 2025

Original evidence ↗

Sources & observations

Y Combinator

Profile depthverified profile

Website observationwebsite reachable

Last website check2026-11-11

Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA

Pricing evidenceNo pricing page confirmed

Maturity: Not assessed · 3 of 6 areas documented

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Product overviewSource description Checked 2026-11-11
Product visualsNot documented
Founders & originsTeam information
Business model & pricingNot documented
Funding & ownershipNot documented
Dated milestonesDated source activity: 2025 Q1 (quarter only)

Stage definitions

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