David Mlčoch is co-founder and CEO of Asteroid (Y Combinator W25), a company building browser agents that automate tasks. Asteroid, whose product evolved from a human-supervision tool for AI agents, counted Google DeepMind among its early customers.
Intro paths
YC
David went through Y Combinator (Winter 2025) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
GP
Their group partner at YC was Harj Taggar, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Asteroid's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, David can intro founders to Asteroid's investors below.
Experience
- AsteroidCo-Founder and CEOcurrent2024 — presentSan Francisco, California, United States
- Entrepreneur FirstFounder (W24-defensive/acceleration)2024Greater London, England, United Kingdom
- Trident AICo-Founder and CTO2024San Francisco, California, United States
- SpaceKnow Inc.Machine Learning Engineer2022 — 2023Prague, Czechia
- EUSPA - EU Agency for the Space ProgrammeGalileo Services2021Prague, Czechia
- IQVIAAutomation Intern2020 — 2021
- Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in PragueResearch2019 — 2021Prague Metropolitan Area
- GLOBTECH spol. s r.o.Software Developer2018 — 2019Prague, Czechia
Education
- The University of EdinburghMaster's degree with Distinction, Informatics2021 — 2022
- Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in PragueBachelor's degree with Distinction, Cybernetics and Robotics2017 — 2021
- Tel Aviv UniversityElectrical and Electronics Engineering2019 — 2020
- Nanyang Technological University SingaporeInternational Exchange Program, Computer Engineering2019
Skills & more
Alteryx4PeopleSoft3C#3ASP.NETSQL ServerPostgreSQLGurobiMathematical ProgrammingSeleniumZabbixGrafanaPython (Programming Language)7
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Pandas (Software)Scrapy FrameworkMatlabNumPySQLGitLinuxLaTeXDockerMicrosoft OutlookSciPy- Diplôme d'Etudes en Langue Française - A1 — Institut français
- Certificate in Advanced English - C1 — British Council
From David's professional profile.
Asteroid's investors · 4
Co-founders
JH
Joe HewettFounder