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Autonomous Technologies Group

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Founded 2025Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

Autonomous is a superintelligent financial advisor at 0% advisory fees.

Today, managing your money means one of two bad options:

DIY your money: You end up with accounts everywhere (401k, IRAs, brokerage, crypto, savings, equity, secondaries). Your spreadsheet is always wrong. You make expensive mistakes because this isn't your full-time job.

Hire a financial advisor: They'll manage your money and charge 1-2% of assets annually. Run that math over multiple decades and you're handing over half your net worth to fees.

Neither path can economically deliver the sophisticated, personalized strategies the ultra-wealthy use to compound wealth: strategic tax-loss harvesting across individual securities, systematic risk management, portfolio-backed borrowing to defer capital gains, access to alternatives, etc.

These aren't secret – they're just economically impossible to deliver at scale through traditional human advisors.

Robos were supposed to fix this, but they were designed in a pre-AI world. In practice they just manage cookie-cutter portfolios. They don’t coordinate across your 401(k), taxable accounts, mortgage, equity, and cash flow, they don’t help with real decisions like job offers, windfalls, or concentrated stock, and they don’t deliver institutional strategies. That’s why, even after a decade plus, the biggest robos are still <$100B AUM while old-school advisors like Raymond James / Edward Jones sit on trillions.

We’re doing for financial advising what Robinhood did for brokerages. Think of it as a full-stack, AI-native wealth strategist that brings billionaire-style playbooks to ordinary investors.

Autonomous is built around a frontier-scale reasoning engine—an AI that perceives global events as they unfold, understanding their deeper implications for markets and and most importantly, how these events will impact your investments.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08

Founders & team

Dillon Erb

Founder/CEO

CEO/ co-founder Autonomous Technologies Group (YC/F25) prev: CEO/ co-founder @ Paperspace (YC/W15) - Acquired DigitalOcean (2023) Angel Investor / Advisor

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

Daniel Kobran

Founder/COO

Cofounder of Autonomous Technologies Group. Prev. Cofounder of Paperspace (GPU cloud, YC), acquired in 2023. Background in cloudscale GPU computing & AI. Early stage deep tech investor.

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
8team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

Founded 2025 · Source

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Y Combinator

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Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedNew York City, NY, USA
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