Axel Peytavin

Founder

Founder at Innate

Palo Alto, California, United States

About

Axel Peytavin is CEO of Innate and previously conducted research at Stanford's Human-Computer Interaction lab and The Ocean Cleanup.

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Axel @ax_pey

new status: listening to the soundtrack of project hail mary on repeat

Aug 2, 2026 · ♥ 4

Axel @ax_pey

Introducing Pick Up Anything Pick any object in any environment Open-Source Coming soon to Innate OS 0.7.0 @innate_bot https://t.co/dZB5XCT4BJ

Jul 30, 2026 · ♥ 162 · ⇄ 16

Axel @ax_pey

Team members have: - Built high-powered rockets for governments at age 17 - Won robotics world championships - Built humanoids in weeks - Founded companies before We love technology and building hard things while having fun doing it If that's you, to dm me

Jul 29, 2026 · ♥ 2

Founder at Innate YC F24

Intro paths

Axel went through Y Combinator (Fall 2024) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

Their group partner at YC was Nicolas Dessaigne, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Innate's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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In turn, Axel can intro founders to Innate's investors below.

Innate's investors · 2

Kima Ventures Y Combinator

Co-founders at Innate

Vignesh AnandFounder

Experience

InnateCo-Founder & CEOcurrent2024 — presentPalo Alto, California, United States
Stanford UniversityResearcher2023 — 2024Stanford, California, United States
Stanford UniversityTeaching Assistant2021 — 2023Stanford, Californie, États-Unis
GetAlongCo-Founder2021 — 2023Stanford, California, United States
STVP - the Stanford Engineering Entrepreneurship CenterThreshold Venture Fellow2023Stanford, California, United States
The Ocean CleanupComputational Modeling Volunteer2021 — 2023Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands
The Ocean CleanupComputational Modeler2020 — 2021Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands
Bam.techMobile Developer2019 — 2020Paris, France
CS³ - Centre Spatial de CentraleSupélec pour les CubeSatsSystem Engineer - Mission ESUS2018 — 2019Greater Paris Metropolitan Region
Hyris TVPresident2018 — 2019Gif-sur-Yvette, France
SNCFIntern2018Les Ardoines
Wireless RedstoneAuthor2013 — 2015Levallois-Perret, Île-de-France, France

Education

Stanford UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Computational and Mathematical Engineering2021 — 2023
CentraleSupélecDiplôme de l'École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, Ingénierie2017 — 2020
CPGE Louis PasteurMaths, Physique2015 — 2017

Skills & more

Higher Education Teaching2Start-up Leadership2Full-Stack DevelopmentProduct DesignComputational MathematicsEntrepreneurshipArtificial Intelligence (AI)High Performance Computing (HPC)Computer VisionMathematical ModelingBig dataCloud Computing

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Python (Programming Language)React.jsPythonAdobe Creative SuiteJavaScriptC++Public SpeakingTeamworkAnalytical SkillsSocial DataExtraction de contenu webBases de données

Languages Anglais · French · Spanish

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