Sydney 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.
Intro paths
YC
Sydney went through Y Combinator (Winter 2026) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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In turn, Sydney can intro founders to Valgo's investors below.
Valgo's investors · 2
Co-founders
Unknown (Stanford CS PhD, previously at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Xwing, and NASA Ames Research Center)Unknown (Stanford Aero/Astro PhD, Lecturer at Stanford)Unknown (Stanford GSB Sloan Fellow & Actuary, previously led insurance M&A at Dai-ichi Life Holdings)Unknown (Stanford Aero/Astro PhD, previously at Motional, The Aerospace Corporation, and MIT Lincoln Laboratory)Robert Moss· Co-Founder and CEOJon Qian· Co-founder and President