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Lars Gjardar Musæus is Founder of Crunched.

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Lars Gjardar Musæus founded Crunched.

Where did Lars Gjardar Musæus go to school?

Lars Gjardar Musæus studied at Y Combinator; Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) (Master's degree, Kybernetikk og robotikk); Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) (Master, Informatikk).

Lars Gjardar Musæus

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Founder at Crunched

Oslo, Oslo, Norway

FoundedCrunched · YC

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About

Lars Gjardar Musæus is co-founder and CTO of Crunched. He has worked as a full-stack and infrastructure engineer at Bekk, Schibsted, Sopra Steria, and Kongsberg Defence, with experience spanning cloud platforms, distributed systems, and autonomous maritime applications. He holds an MSc in Cybernetics & Robotics from NTNU.

Founder at Crunched YC F25

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Lars went through Y Combinator (Fall 2025) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

Their group partner at YC was Pete Koomen, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Crunched's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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Crunched's investors · 11

20VCLondon · $250K – $5M checks Agrolimen Ventures First Round CapitalSan Francisco · $100K – $20M checks Founders FactoryLondon · $150K – $200K checks Liquid VenturesSan Francisco · $250K – $5M checks Metsu Capital OurCrowdJerusalem · $604K – $65M checks Shorooq PartnersAbu Dhabi · $750K – $33M checks SV AngelSan Francisco · $150K – $20M checks Valkyrie Ventures Management, LlcPark City Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2025

Co-founders at Crunched

Philip BorgeFounder

Michael SakowskiFounder

Markus SkagemoFounder

Experience

CrunchedCo-Founder & CTOcurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco, California, USA
BekkSenior Software Engineer Consultant2025Oslo, Norge
BekkSoftware Engineer Consultant2022 — 2025Oslo, Norway
Sopra SteriaSummer Internship2021
SchibstedJunior Infrastructure Developer2020 — 2021
SchibstedSRE Intern2020Oslo, Norway
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet (NTNU)Læringsassistent2020Trondheim, Sør-Trøndelag, Norge
Kvant NTNUSoftware Developer2018 — 2020Trondheim Area, Norway
KONGSBERGSummer Internship2019
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet (NTNU)Læringsassistent2019Trondheim Area, Norway
Red BullStudent Brand Manager2018 — 2019Trondheim Area, Norway
KONGSBERGSummer Internship2018Kongsberg
Norges BlindeforbundLedsager2014 — 2017Oslo Area, Norway
Forsvaret - Norwegian Armed ForcesVisekorporal i hæren2016 — 2017Rena

Skills & more

ROSKubernetesASP.NET3C++4Python2Git1Terraform1AzureMatlabLaTeX1HTML1CSS1

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SimulinkActionScript

Languages Engelsk · Spansk

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Who is Lars Gjardar Musæus?: Lars Gjardar Musæus is co-founder and CTO of Crunched. He has worked as a full-stack and infrastructure engineer at Bekk, Schibsted, Sopra Steria, and Kongsberg Defence, with experience spanning cloud platforms, distributed systems, and autonomous maritime applications. He holds an MSc in Cybernetics & Robotics from NTNU.
Where does Lars Gjardar Musæus work?: Lars Gjardar Musæus is Founder of Crunched.
What companies did Lars Gjardar Musæus found?: Lars Gjardar Musæus founded Crunched.
Where did Lars Gjardar Musæus go to school?: Lars Gjardar Musæus studied at Y Combinator; Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) (Master's degree, Kybernetikk og robotikk); Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) (Master, Informatikk).

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Founder at CrunchedYC F25

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Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) mafia73

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Also attended Instituto Picasso1

Shared employers

Also worked at Crunched3

Also worked at Bekk7

Also worked at Schibsted22

Also worked at Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet (NTNU)54

Founder at Crunched YC F25