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David Mlčoch

InvestorFounder

Investor at MITON · Founder at Asteroid

San Francisco, California, United States

FoundedAsteroid · YC

About

David Mlčoch is co-founder and CEO of Asteroid (Y Combinator W25), a company building browser agents that automate tasks. Asteroid, whose product evolved from a human-supervision tool for AI agents, counted Google DeepMind among its early customers.

Founder at AsteroidYC W25

Intro paths

YC

David went through Y Combinator (Winter 2025) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

GP

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

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In turn, David can intro founders to Asteroid's investors below.

Asteroid's investors · 5

Entrepreneur FirstBengaluru · $1M – $7M checksMITONPragueMyAsiaVCSeattleTranspose Platform ManagementHoustonY CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2025

Co-founders at Asteroid

JHJoe Hewett
Joe HewettFounder

Experience

  1. AsteroidCo-Founder and CEOcurrent2024 — presentSan Francisco, California, United States
  2. Entrepreneur FirstFounder (W24-defensive/acceleration)2024Greater London, England, United Kingdom
  3. Trident AICo-Founder and CTO2024San Francisco, California, United States
  4. SpaceKnow Inc.Machine Learning Engineer2022 — 2023Prague, Czechia
  5. EUSPA - EU Agency for the Space ProgrammeGalileo Services2021Prague, Czechia
  6. IQVIAAutomation Intern2020 — 2021
  7. Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in PragueResearch2019 — 2021Prague Metropolitan Area
  8. GLOBTECH spol. s r.o.Software Developer2018 — 2019Prague, Czechia

Education

  1. The University of EdinburghMaster's degree with Distinction, Informatics2021 — 2022
  2. Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in PragueBachelor's degree with Distinction, Cybernetics and Robotics2017 — 2021
  3. Tel Aviv UniversityElectrical and Electronics Engineering2019 — 2020
  4. Nanyang Technological University SingaporeInternational Exchange Program, Computer Engineering2019

Skills & more

Alteryx4PeopleSoft3C#3ASP.NETSQL ServerPostgreSQLGurobiMathematical ProgrammingSeleniumZabbixGrafanaPython (Programming Language)7
+11 morePandas (Software)Scrapy FrameworkMatlabNumPySQLGitLinuxLaTeXDockerMicrosoft OutlookSciPy
  • Diplôme d'Etudes en Langue Française - A1 — Institut français
  • Certificate in Advanced English - C1 — British Council

From David's professional profile.

Colleagues at MITON

Michala Gregorová
Investor at MITON
Tomáš Havryluk
Investor at MITON

Frequently asked questions

Where does David Mlčoch work?
David Mlčoch is at MITON and Founder at Asteroid.
What companies did David Mlčoch found?
David Mlčoch founded Asteroid.

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