About
Ajay Misra is a co-founder of o11 working on model training.
Ajay Misra @ajaymisraaa
Rampβs router is an example of an obvious solution hiding in plain sight because everyone is focused on LLMs. Like o11's "Auto" model. Routing, compression, classification, and context are almost never LLM problems. Sometimes simple ML architectures work better than another
Jul 20, 2026 Β· β₯ 5
Ajay Misra @ajaymisraaa
Launching o11 for Life Sciences. For the past few months, we have been working with some of the largest pharmaceutical and life science companies across the world. Learn more @ https://t.co/A0Qn1wnMzk https://t.co/EM7NL3s9kA
May 21, 2026 Β· β₯ 19 Β· β 1
Ajay Misra @ajaymisraaa
Reward hacking feels severely under-benchmarked. Some of these model family behaviors are absurd, and a lot of the research around it barely gets attention.
May 15, 2026 Β· β₯ 3
Founder at O11YC W26
Intro paths
Ajay went through Y Combinator (Winter 2026) β any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was Jared Friedman, General Partner at Y Combinator β the partner who ran O11's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile β
In turn, Ajay can intro founders to O11's investors below.
O11's investors Β· 2
Co-founders at O11
Experience
- o11 (YC W26)President & Co-Foundercurrent2025 β presentNew York, NY
- Cal AIAll over2025San Francisco, CA
- EthanFounder2024 β 2025San Francisco, CA
- Mayo ClinicMachine Learning Researcher2023 β 2025
- PWOTEFounder2019 β 2021
Education
- Y CombinatorW26
- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- LeapYearLY25
- Mayo Senior High School
Skills & more
- Youth Hockey Referee β USA Hockey
- Open Water Scuba Instructor β PADI
From Ajay's professional profile.
Same school
Also attended Y Combinator1,464
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Also attended The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill175
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Shared employers
Also worked at Mayo Clinic15
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