Richard Zhou
Founder/CEOCo-founder at Aemon (YC W26). Waterloo CS dropout. International medalist in math & robotics.
Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
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Aemon
Overview
Aemon is the first autonomous research engineer that delivers state-of-the-art solutions to your engineering problems. It generates, tests, and evolves thousands of approaches at machine speed to discover optimal solutions beyond what human experts can find.
Aemon already set a new world record on an NP-hard math optimization problem with <$10 of compute, beating the previous record set by Google DeepMind in 2025.
Ray and Richard (twin brothers) dropped out of UWaterloo and UIUC to build Aemon. They published at top AI conferences like ICLR and EMNLP before turning 20.
Company description As recorded 2026-11-08
Founders & team
Ray Xu
Founder/CTOCo-founder at Aemon (YC W26). UIUC CS dropout. Published at top AI conferences like ICLR and EMNLP before turning 20.
Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
3team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15
Founded 2025 · Source
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Winter 2026Winter 2026
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Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA
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