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Ndea

YC W26

Founded 2024 · 15 employees · 4 known investors

NDEA develops artificial general intelligence technology and benchmarks. The company is founded by the creator of Keras and a co-founder of Zapier.

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Founders & leadership· Y Combinator alumni (W26)

Ndea was founded in 2024 by François Chollet, Mike Knoop, and Francois Chollet.

FCFrançois Chollet
François Cholletin𝕏Co-FounderFrancois Chollet is a machine learning researcher and software engineer who created Keras, a widely-used deep learning framework, and previously led AI research at Google. He is the founder of Ndea.
MKMike Knoop
Mike Knoopin𝕏FounderMike Knoop is the creator of Keras and co-founder of Zapier. He is now founding Ndea, which develops artificial general intelligence technology and benchmarks.
FCFrancois Chollet
Francois Cholletin𝕏Co-FounderFounder of NDEA, which develops artificial general intelligence technology and benchmarks. Chollet previously created Keras, an open-source deep learning library, and was a co-founder of Zapier.

Investors · 4

Air Street CapitalSt. Peter Port · $500K – $10M
Coatue ManagementNew York · $1M – $20M
Menlo VenturesSan Francisco · $1M – $20M
Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K

Competitors · 1

by search overlap
Scale AI3 shared keywordsScale provides high-quality training data, model evaluations, and full-stack AI systems for enterprises and governments to build and deploy AI applications. The company supplies data annotation, RLHF, benchmarking, and red-teaming services for machine learning models.

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In the news

Claude's Corner: Ndea - Chollet's $43M Bet That Scale Isn't AGI | StartupHub.aistartuphub.ai · May 2026The Sequence Radar #472: Remember this Name: Ndeathesequence.substack.com · Jan 2025AI researcher François Chollet founds a new AI lab focused on AGI | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com · Jan 2025Ndea Funding: $43.0M | Complete Analysis | Extruct AIextruct.ai

Frequently asked questions

What does Ndea do?
NDEA develops artificial general intelligence technology and benchmarks. The company is founded by the creator of Keras and a co-founder of Zapier.
Who founded Ndea?
Ndea was founded by François Chollet, Mike Knoop, Francois Chollet in 2024.
Who are Ndea's investors?
Ndea's investors include Air Street Capital, Coatue Management, Menlo Ventures, Y Combinator.