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Filip Balucha

Founder

Founder at Terminal Use

San Francisco, California, United States

FoundedTerminal Use · YC

About

Filip Balucha previously worked on ontology at Palantir and now focuses on building long-running background agents.

Founder at Terminal UseYC W26

Intro paths

YC

Filip went through Y Combinator (Winter 2026) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

GP

Their group partner at YC was Gustaf Alstromer — the partner who ran Terminal Use's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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In turn, Filip can intro founders to Terminal Use's investors below.

Terminal Use's investors · 1

Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2026

Co-founders at Terminal Use

VRVivek Raja
Vivek RajaFounder
SFStavros Filosidis
Stavros FilosidisFounder

Experience

  1. Terminal Use (YC W26)Co-Foundercurrent2026 — present
  2. Palantir TechnologiesSoftware Engineer2023 — 2025Greater London, England, United Kingdom
  3. Palantir TechnologiesSoftware Engineer Intern2022Greater London, England, United Kingdom
  4. SlidoSoftware Engineering Intern2021Bratislava, Slovakia
  5. The University of EdinburghTutor2020
  6. Slovenská sporiteľňaSoftware Developer2020Bratislava, Slovakia
  7. HYPEDSoftware Engineer2019 — 2020

Skills & more

Front-End DevelopmentData StructuresAlgorithmsSoftware DevelopmentProgrammingObject-Oriented Programming (OOP)MatplotlibLogistic Regressionk-means clusteringPrincipal Component AnalysisNumPyTypeScript
+8 moreNLTKPythonPandas (Software)SeabornGitSQLPyTorchPostgreSQL

Languages English · German · Slovak

  • Open Water Scuba Diver — PADI
  • Goethe-Zertifikat C1 (81%) — Goethe-Institut e.V.

From Filip's professional profile.

Frequently asked questions

Who is Filip Balucha?
Filip Balucha previously worked on ontology at Palantir and now focuses on building long-running background agents.
Where does Filip Balucha work?
Filip Balucha is Founder of Terminal Use.
What companies did Filip Balucha found?
Filip Balucha founded Terminal Use.
Where did Filip Balucha go to school?
Filip Balucha studied at The University of Edinburgh (Bachelor's degree, Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science); University of Toronto (Bachelor's degree, Computer Science); International Baccalaureate (High School Diploma).

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