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Synphony

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Founded 2025Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

Strawberry farming is a $3B industry in California alone with 60% labor cost using 40-year old software. Synphony provides strawberry picking robots and software services including: bed-level analytics, data pipeline integration, and agentic solutions.

Synphony's "side hustle" is selling data, evals, and viral demos to robot foundation labs while building capacity for general robot deployments. We've started with strawberry farming for great margins and outdoor data moat, but also received requests for robots in semi-conductors and autonomous space labs.

Synphony's team has won over 15 hackathons together (taking home 4 Jensen-signed GPUs!). Sean did ML research at NVIDIA and led AI products used by IRS and Citibank. Lucas' research spanned robotics, IoT devices, and neuromorphic computing. Alex architected an app with 400k users.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08

Founders & team

Sean Wu

Founder/CEO

prev. NVIDIA AI & Stanford Bio Research visited 25 countries, wrestled for 7 years, saved 3 lives, and won 5 hackathons let's talk! https://calendly.com/sean-synphony/week-of-6-15-synphony-yc-26-fundraising-chat

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

Lucas Amlicke

Founder/CTO

Pursued research in neuromorphic computing, Human AI system optimization, and IoT cybersecurity during my undergrad at Santa Clara University for computer science and engineering. I always want to be on the cutting edge of technology so I can push the envelope of what is feasible. I like putting the latest tools to the test for improving my efficiency. Currently I'm focused on leveling up physical intelligence to make robots into co-workers.

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
10team 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 statedSan Francisco, CA, USA
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