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Viviana FagaunlockedJacob: together at Santa Clara University
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About
Jacob Ososke is the founder and CEO of Orca Aerospace. He previously spent over a decade at Lockheed Martin in guidance, navigation, and control (GNC), advancing from intern to GNC Manager and establishing the company's first AI-GNC team, with work centered on autonomous fault recovery and self-healing systems for aerospace platforms. He holds an MS in Robotics from Santa Clara University and an MS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech.
Founder/CEO at Orca AerospaceYC F26
Intro paths
YC
Jacob went through Y Combinator (Fall 2026) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Their group partner at YC was Nicolas Dessaigne, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Orca Aerospace's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Jacob can intro founders to Orca Aerospace's investors below.
Orca Aerospace's investors · 2
Co-founders at Orca Aerospace
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Hakan ChuntonFounder/CTO
Experience
- Orca Aerospace (YC F26)Co-Founder & CEOcurrent2026 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- Lockheed MartinGuidance, Navigation & Control Leader2015 — 2026
- Robotics Systems LabDrone Researcher2015 — 2018Santa Clara University
- Sandia National LaboratoriesR&D Summer Intern2014
- Santa Clara UniversityPhysics Department Laboratory Internship2013Santa Clara, California
- NASANASA INSPIRE Program2012Richmond, Virginia Area
Skills & more
Research18Data Analysis13Mechanical Engineering9Robotics5Aerospace Engineering4Physics7C++8Critical Thinking5Programming7Microsoft Office20Drones3Aerospace4
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PowerPointBioinformaticsMatlabJavaCStatisticsCyber-securityMechatronicsLanguages Japanese
- C++ Nanodegree — Udacity
- Intro to Self-Driving Cars Nanodegree — Udacity
- AI for Trading Nanodegree — Udacity
- Self-Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree — Udacity
- Applying Machine Learning to Engineering and Science — MIT xPRO
- Machine Learning, Modeling, and Simulation Principles — MIT xPRO
- Remote Pilot (Part 107) — Federal Aviation Administration
- Fundementals of Accelerated Computing with CUDA Python — NVIDIA
- Deep Learning Specialization — Coursera
- Sequence Models — Coursera
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Jacob Ososke?
- Jacob Ososke is the founder and CEO of Orca Aerospace. He previously spent over a decade at Lockheed Martin in guidance, navigation, and control (GNC), advancing from intern to GNC Manager and establishing the company's first AI-GNC team, with work centered on autonomous fault recovery and self-healing systems for aerospace platforms. He holds an MS in Robotics from Santa Clara University and an MS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech.
- Where does Jacob Ososke work?
- Jacob Ososke is Founder/CEO of Orca Aerospace.
- What companies did Jacob Ososke found?
- Jacob Ososke founded Orca Aerospace.
- Where did Jacob Ososke go to school?
- Jacob Ososke studied at Georgia Institute of Technology (Master's degree, Computer Science); Santa Clara University (Master of Science (M.S.), Robotics and Mechatronics); Santa Clara University (Bachelor of Science (BS), Mechanical Engineering).
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Santa Clara University mafia82
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Redwood High School, TUHSD mafia6
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Shared employers
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