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Joe Hewett

Founder

Founder at Asteroid

San Francisco Bay Area

FoundedAsteroid · YC

About

Joe Hewett is co-founder and CTO of Asteroid, focusing on agents for automating browser and computer use tasks.

Likely email· guessed from name + firm domain, not firm-published

Founder at AsteroidYC W25

Intro paths

YC

Joe 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, Joe 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

DMDavid Mlcoch
David MlcochFounder

Experience

  1. AsteroidFounder & CTOcurrent2024 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
  2. NetcraftSoftware Engineer2020 — 2024
  3. Career Break2022 — 2023
  4. Warwick Artificial IntelligencePresident2021 — 2022
  5. Warwick Artificial IntelligenceVice President2020 — 2021Warwick
  6. Career BreakGap year2018 — 2019Alaska, United States

Skills & more

Intelligent Agents2Go1KubernetesCloud ComputingGo (Programming Language)Web DevelopmentGraphic DesignAnti-phishingCybercrime InvestigationFull-Stack DevelopmentGerman2Amazon Web Services (AWS)
+12 moreSvelteJavaMicrosoft ExcelJavaScriptHTMLPythonGitVisual BasicC (Programming Language)PHPPython (Programming Language)React.js

From Joe's professional profile.

Frequently asked questions

Who is Joe Hewett?
Joe Hewett is co-founder and CTO of Asteroid, focusing on agents for automating browser and computer use tasks.
Where does Joe Hewett work?
Joe Hewett is Founder of Asteroid.
What companies did Joe Hewett found?
Joe Hewett founded Asteroid.
Where did Joe Hewett go to school?
Joe Hewett studied at Y Combinator; University of Warwick (Bachelor's degree, Computer Science); King Edwards School, Bath.

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Shared employers

Also worked at Asteroid1

David MlčochCo-founder & CEO of Asteroid

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