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 CrunchedYC F25
Intro paths
YC
Lars went through Y Combinator (Fall 2025) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
GP
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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In turn, Lars can intro founders to Crunched's investors below.
Crunched's investors · 2
Co-founders at Crunched
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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SimulinkActionScriptLanguages Engelsk · Spansk
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Frequently asked questions
- 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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