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RunLocal AI

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Founded 2024Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

RunLocal is an environment that specializes AI agents to optimize model for onboard compute platforms like NVIDIA Orin/Thor and Qualcomm → www.runlocal.ai

RunLocal is built for Physical AI engineering teams across autonomous vehicles, robotics, smart cameras and more.

It tracks every experiment and continuously refines experimentation data into an understanding of what drives performance on your target hardware.

This environment means that a generic coding agent (e.g. Codex or Claude Code) can experiment and iterate better, faster and cheaper.

With RunLocal, you hit performance targets faster and ship more optimized models – without hiring inference optimization specialists.

We’re working with leaders in autonomous vehicles and robotics. We're backed by investors like Y Combinator and 468 Capital.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08

Founders & team

Previously Neuralize, RunLocal

Company history As recorded 2026-11-08

Ismail Salim

Founder/CEO

Co-Founder & CEO of RunLocal AI RunLocal is an environment that specializes AI agents to optimize model for onboard compute platforms like NVIDIA Orin/Thor and Qualcomm → www.runlocal.ai RunLocal is built for Physical AI engineering teams across autonomous vehicles, robotics, smart cameras and more. Previously worked on the first edge AI video codec at Deep Render and AR/VR apps at Meta.

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

Ivan Chan

Founder/CTO

CTO of Neuralize. Previously a software engineer at Marshall Wace (Europe's largest hedge fund) building an internal AI platform for developers and optimizing low latency streaming systems.

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
3team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

Founded 2024 · Source

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Y Combinator

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Location · source statedLondon, England, United Kingdom
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