Jonas Schneider
InvestorFounder & CEO at Daedalus, Formerly OpenAI at NGP Capital
FoundedDaedalus · YC
About
Jonas Schneider is the Founder and CEO of Daedalus, a German deep tech startup building AI-driven factories that produce precision parts for defense, medtech, and advanced manufacturing; Daedalus is a portfolio company of NGP Capital. He was previously OpenAI's first engineer, where he served as Technical Lead and co-founded the Robotics team, leading software engineering for combined software, ML, and hardware systems. He holds a Computer Science degree from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and is an active angel investor in the European and US AI ecosystem.
Invests in
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningDeep TechDefense TechRobotics
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Advisor at NGP Capital
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Manager, Post-Investment at NGP Capital
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