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David McDonough

Founder

COO at tday.com

Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Foundedtday.com · YC

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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.

COO at tday.comYC X26

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YC

David went through Y Combinator (Spring 2026) — 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 tday.com's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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Co-founders at tday.com

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 COO of tday.com.
What companies did David McDonough found?
David McDonough founded tday.com.

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