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About
Ethan Childerhose is co-founder and CTO at Steinmetz, with prior experience in hardware engineering roles at Rocket Lab, Nvidia, Tesla, and Neuralink, spanning analog circuit design through mechanical testing systems.
Founder at SteinmetzYC W25
Intro paths
Ethan went through Y Combinator (Winter 2025) — 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. — the partner who ran Steinmetz's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
In turn, Ethan can intro founders to Steinmetz's investors below.
Steinmetz's investors · 9
Co-founders at Steinmetz
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Ethan Childerhose?
- Ethan Childerhose is co-founder and CTO at Steinmetz, with prior experience in hardware engineering roles at Rocket Lab, Nvidia, Tesla, and Neuralink, spanning analog circuit design through mechanical testing systems.
- Where does Ethan Childerhose work?
- Ethan Childerhose is Founder of Steinmetz.
- What companies did Ethan Childerhose found?
- Ethan Childerhose founded Steinmetz.
Founder mafias
Y Combinator mafia10,594
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University of Waterloo mafia428
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Tesla mafia188
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NVIDIA mafia157
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Rocket Lab mafia9
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