Brandon Ong
FounderCo-Founder at Hebbian Robotics
San Francisco, California, United States
FoundedHebbian Robotics · YC
About
Brandon Ong is co-founder and CEO of Hebbian Robotics. He previously built two-arm industrial cleaning robots, conducted research on AI for low-resource languages, and served as co-founder and CTO of Gigit AI.
Co-Founder at Hebbian RoboticsYC S26
Intro paths
YC
Brandon went through Y Combinator (Summer 2026) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
GP
Their group partner at YC was Diana Hu, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Hebbian Robotics's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Brandon can intro founders to Hebbian Robotics's investors below.
Hebbian Robotics's investors · 1
Co-founders at Hebbian Robotics
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Kingston KuanFounder
Experience
- Hebbian Robotics (YC S26)Co-Foundercurrent2026 — present
- Griffin LabsAI Autonomy Research2025 — 2026Singapore
- AI SingaporeDeputy Head of Applied Research2024 — 2025
- Gigit.aiCofounder and CTO2022 — 2024Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- OKXSoftware Engineer2022
- AlliumData Intern2022
- HelicapMachine Learning Intern2021
- WorkstreamData Intern2019 — 2020San Francisco Bay Area
- Republic of Singapore Air ForceRadar Officer2015 — 2017Singapore
Skills & more
Software Development
Languages Chinese · English
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Brandon Ong?
- Brandon Ong is co-founder and CEO of Hebbian Robotics. He previously built two-arm industrial cleaning robots, conducted research on AI for low-resource languages, and served as co-founder and CTO of Gigit AI.
- Where does Brandon Ong work?
- Brandon Ong is Co-Founder of Hebbian Robotics.
- What companies did Brandon Ong found?
- Brandon Ong founded Hebbian Robotics.
- Where did Brandon Ong go to school?
- Brandon Ong studied at Columbia University (Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical and Electronics Engineering); Nanyang Technological University Singapore (Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical and Electronics Engineering); Singapore Management University (Bachelor's degree, Finance & Computer Science).
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Shared employers
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