Logistics supply chain

Yondu

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Founded 2024Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

Yondu is creating the robotic workforce of the future starting with logistics automation. We're deploying humanoid robots in the first flexible, drop-in picking automation solution designed for 3PLs.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08

Founders & team

Michael Chen

Founder/CEO

Michael Chen is at a unique crossroads with a background in intelligent machines from MIT and research experience at the forefront of robotics and AI. He helped build an open source bipedal robot at MIT CSAIL. Michael is an avid entrepreneur who has always loved business (even owning a sauce brand). For fun, he builds all sorts of cool machines ranging from FPV drones to train track cleaning robots to gasoline powered snowboards.

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

Tahmid Jamal

Founder/CTO

Tahmid graduated from MIT with degrees in AI and AeroAstro. There he's worked on projects ranging from language model compression and quantization to astrodynamics simulations for a solar research proposal to NASA. He was doing his master's researching uncertainty estimation methods in deep learning before dropping out to participate in YC. In his free time, he enjoys movies, board games, and climbing the occasional tree.

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
12team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

Founded 2024 · Source

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Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedLos Angeles, CA, USA
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Maturity: Not assessed · 3 of 6 areas documented

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