Valgo
YC W26San Francisco, US · Founded 2025 · 3 employees · 3 known investors
Valgo builds risk quantification and safety validation tools for autonomous systems and physical AI, including methodologies for computing crash-rate baselines, failure probability estimation, and scenario generation for robotaxis and autonomous vehicles.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareRoboticsUnited States of AmericaAmerica / Canada
Founders & leadership· Y Combinator alumni (W26)
Valgo was founded in 2025 by Robert Moss, Sydney Katz, and Jon Qian.
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Robert Mossin𝕏Co-Founder and CEORobert Moss holds a PhD in computer science from Stanford focused on validation algorithms for safety-critical systems. He has held research positions at MIT Lincoln Laboratory on the ACAS X aircraft collision avoidance system design team, at NASA Ames Research Center, and at Xwing, an autonomous aircraft company.
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Sydney KatzinCo-Founder and CTOSydney Katz holds a PhD in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford, where their research focused on safe machine learning. They have held positions at Reliable Robotics, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, and NASA, and have authored a textbook on validation algorithms and taught a course on validation of safety-critical systems at Stanford.
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- What does Valgo do?
- Valgo builds risk quantification and safety validation tools for autonomous systems and physical AI, including methodologies for computing crash-rate baselines, failure probability estimation, and scenario generation for robotaxis and autonomous vehicles.
- Who founded Valgo?
- Valgo was founded by Robert Moss, Sydney Katz, Jon Qian in 2025.
- Who are Valgo's investors?
- Valgo's investors include 1Flourish Capital, Floodgate, Y Combinator.
- Where is Valgo headquartered?
- Valgo is headquartered in San Francisco, US.