Aldo Lipani
FounderFounder at Eloquent AI
San Francisco, California, United States
FoundedEloquent AI · YC
About
Aldo Lipani is Co-founder of Eloquent AI and a Professor of Machine Learning at UCL, with a PhD from TU Wien. His background includes research positions at Microsoft Research, NIST, NII Tokyo, and Nvidia, focusing on large language models and training methodologies.
Founder at Eloquent AIYC X25
Intro paths
YC
Aldo went through Y Combinator (Spring 2025) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Their group partner at YC was Tom Blomfield, Monzo and GoCardless co-founder; Y Combinator partner on leave and Anthropic compute-team member. — the partner who ran Eloquent AI's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Aldo can intro founders to Eloquent AI's investors below.
Eloquent AI's investors · 12
Duke Capital PartnersDurham · since 2025Eight CapitalCaguas · since 2025EJF VenturesArlington · since 2025Foundation CapitalSan Francisco · $250K – $15M checks · since 2025HomebrewBurlingame · $100K – $500K checksLogo Ventures$600K – $22M checks · since 2025Metis VenturesLondon · $3.3M checksRevo CapitalIstanbul · $250K – $5M checksTranspose Platform ManagementHoustonValia VenturesLondon · $50K – $50M checksY CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2025Zeno VenturesGeneva · since 2025
Co-founders at Eloquent AI
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Tugce BulutFounder
Experience
- Eloquent AICo-Founder, CAIO & CTOcurrent2025 — present
- UCLProf. (Assoc.) in Machine Learningcurrent2023 — presentLondon, United Kingdom
- UCLProf. (Asst.) in Machine Learning2019 — 2023London, United Kingdom
- UCLPostdoctoral Researcher2018 — 2019London, United Kingdom
- Vector.aiSenior Machine Learning Researcher2020 — 2022London, England, United Kingdom
- Bloomberg LPVisiting Scientist2019 — 2020London, England, United Kingdom
- MicrosoftVisiting Researcher2017Cambridge, United Kingdom
- National Institute of Standards and TechnologyVisiting Researcher2017
- MicrosoftResearch Intern2016Cambridge, United Kingdom
- University of AmsterdamVisiting Researcher2016Amsterdam, Netherlands
- University of GlasgowVisiting Researcher2016Glasgow, United Kingdom
- National Institute of InformaticsVisiting Researcher2015Tokyo, Japan
- IKARUS Security Software GmbHSoftware Engineer2014Vienna, Austria
Skills & more
Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)4Information Retrieval8Natural Language Processing8Machine Learning7Deep Learning2Computer Engineering2Scala2Java1JavaScript1C#1C++1PyTorch
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TensorFlowC (Programming Language)Python (Programming Language)Languages English · Italian
- NVIDIA DLI - DLI Platform Course for Instructors — NVIDIA
- Professional Member — ACM, Association for Computing Machinery
- Professional Member (MBCS) — BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy — Higher Education Academy
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Aldo Lipani?
- Aldo Lipani is Co-founder of Eloquent AI and a Professor of Machine Learning at UCL, with a PhD from TU Wien. His background includes research positions at Microsoft Research, NIST, NII Tokyo, and Nvidia, focusing on large language models and training methodologies.
- Where does Aldo Lipani work?
- Aldo Lipani is Founder of Eloquent AI.
- What companies did Aldo Lipani found?
- Aldo Lipani founded Eloquent AI.
- Where did Aldo Lipani go to school?
- Aldo Lipani studied at Technische Universität Wien (Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science); Y Combinator (X25); Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna (Master of Science - MS, Computer Science).
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