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Edgar Babajanyan

Founder

Co-Founder and CTO at Captain

San Francisco Bay Area

FoundedCaptain Β· YC

About

Edgar Babajanyan is the CTO at Captain. He has published research in AI and NLP, previously built OCR engines at Boar's Head, and spent four years developing high-performance RAG pipelines and cross-region datacenter infrastructure.

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Edgar Babajanyan @babajanyanedgar

I feel like I've been in SF so long, I come back and its like a decade behind, see y'all during NY Tech week

May 31, 2026 Β· β™₯ 2

Edgar Babajanyan @babajanyanedgar

These walls have seen every dimension to startups https://t.co/JnLB4dnJNE

Jan 6, 2026 Β· β™₯ 7

Edgar Babajanyan @babajanyanedgar

Probably wasn't running Captain for data retrieval πŸ€” https://t.co/Fbeopwm0Xj

Dec 6, 2025 Β· β™₯ 5

Co-Founder and CTO at CaptainYC W26

Intro paths

YC

Edgar went through Y Combinator (Winter 2026) β€” any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

GP

Their group partner at YC was Garry Tan, President & CEO of Y Combinator β€” the partner who ran Captain's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile β†—

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In turn, Edgar can intro founders to Captain's investors below.

Captain's investors Β· 1

Y Combinator

Co-founders at Captain

LPLewis Polansky
Lewis PolanskyCEO/Co-Founder

Experience

  1. Captain (YC W26)CTOcurrent2025 β€” present
  2. Hondius Capital ManagementAlgorithms and Data Engineer2025
  3. Reality InteractiveAI Software Engineer2023 β€” 2025
  4. Purdue Computer and Information TechnologyUndergraduate NL Researcher2023 β€” 2025
  5. Autonomous Robotics Club of PurdueHead of Software Engineering2023 β€” 2025
  6. Purdue UniversityUndergraduate Teaching Assistant2024 β€” 2025
  7. Bechtel Innovation Design CenterComputer Vision/Software Engineer2023 β€” 2024West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
  8. RocketbookSoftware Engineer Intern2022

Education

  1. Purdue UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Network Engineering
  2. Y Combinator
  3. Purdue UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Systems Analysis and Design
  4. Amity Regional High SchoolHigh School Diploma, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates

Skills & more

Network EngineeringLeading Development TeamsSystems EngineeringPositioning (Marketing)Business-to-Business (B2B)Web DevelopmentEngineering3D Modeling3D PrintingPrinted Circuit Board (PCB) DesignMachine LearningComputer Vision
+12 moreMicrocontrollersProject ManagementDrone BuildingAndroid DevelopmentUAVLinuxAmazon Web Services (AWS)Google Cloud Platform (GCP)Python (Programming Language)JavaScriptGitTrello
  • Enterprise Gen AI Apps β€” Weaviate

From Edgar's professional profile.

Same school

Also attended Purdue University151

Mamoon HamidPartner at Kleiner PerkinsNabeel HyattInvestor helping founders and working on AI that enables human creativity and agencyKenneth Morand, Ph.D.Life Sciences Partner at CincyTechJane CommerfordOperations at 8VCSven StrohbandInvestor at Khosla VenturesJeff PetersPartner at Ibex Investors

+ 145 more

Also attended Y Combinator1,464

Akshat GoenkaInvestor at Moonfire VenturesJon XuGeneral Partner at Y CombinatorTed ChaiAssociate at Scale Venture PartnersLeo LuInvestor at Foundation CapitalMaroof AhmedFounder at Octopus VenturesYusuf SherwaniCo-Founder and CEO at Pelago; a Londoner living in New York City

+ 1,458 more

Also attended Amity Regional High School2

Mounisha AnumoluInvestor at GV (Google Ventures)Konstantine DrakonakisVenture Partner at LaunchCapital

Shared employers

Also worked at Purdue University25

Mohammed AlmeshekahFounder & General Partner at Outliers VCGaurav SantAdvisor, Director, UCLA Institute for Carbon Management at Overture ClimateDr. Mung ChiangPresident Northwestern University at NEW VISTA CAPITALCarla BrodleyInvestor at Blue Tulip VenturesAlibek DostiyarovInvestor at FEBE VenturesRouz JazayeriCo-founder at Catapult Ventures

+ 19 more

Also worked at Rocketbook2

Joe LemayInvestor at Impellent VenturesJake EpsteinInvestor at Impellent Ventures