Ilya Kelner is CTO and cofounder at Red Barn Robotics. He previously led flight software development at Relativity Space, where he designed fault-tolerant flight computer architecture and deployment systems, and held engineering roles at SpaceX (Starlink), Nvidia (autonomous vehicles), and Microsoft (Xbox).
Intro paths
YC
Ilya 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 Brad Flora, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Red Barn Robotics's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Ilya can intro founders to Red Barn Robotics's investors below.
Red Barn Robotics's investors · 3
Co-founders
AI
Adam IsemanFounder
AN
Alex NeffFounder