David McDonough
FounderCo-Founder & COO at tday.com
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Foundedtday.com Β· YC
About
David McDonough is building tday, an AI system that generates marketing materials from code repositories and pull requests. He previously served as Technical Lead at VAL.AI, where he developed an energy efficiency scoring model deployed across Australian banking and real estate platforms, and as Lead Engineer at MEQ Solutions, where he developed machine learning models for predicting meat quality from spectroscopy data. He holds a B.Eng. in Computer Systems with Honours.
Co-Founder & COO at tday.comYC X26
Intro paths
David went through Y Combinator (Spring 2026) β any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was Tom Blomfield, Monzo and GoCardless co-founder; Y Combinator partner on leave and Anthropic compute-team member. β the partner who ran tday.com's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile β
In turn, David can intro founders to tday.com's investors below.
tday.com's investors Β· 1
Co-founders at tday.com
Experience
- tday.com (YC P26)Co-Founder & COOcurrent2026 β present
- Concept SessionsCo-Founder & Directorcurrent2024 β present
- Val.AiTechnical Lead2023 β 2026Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
- SA Power NetworksAutomation and Innovation Analyst2022 β 2023
- SA Power NetworksIT Graduate2020 β 2022Adelaide, SA
- MEQ ProbeLead Engineer2018 β 2019Adelaide, SA
- AvailerTechnical Analyst2017 β 2018Adelaide, South Australia
Skills & more
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is David McDonough?
- David McDonough is building tday, an AI system that generates marketing materials from code repositories and pull requests. He previously served as Technical Lead at VAL.AI, where he developed an energy efficiency scoring model deployed across Australian banking and real estate platforms, and as Lead Engineer at MEQ Solutions, where he developed machine learning models for predicting meat quality from spectroscopy data. He holds a B.Eng. in Computer Systems with Honours.
- Where does David McDonough work?
- David McDonough is Co-Founder & COO of tday.com.
- What companies did David McDonough found?
- David McDonough founded tday.com.
- Where did David McDonough go to school?
- David McDonough studied at Y Combinator; University of Adelaide (Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Systems) (Honours)); Emmaus Christian College (High School Diploma).
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