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Michael Wachsman

Founder

Founder at Alt-X

Los Angeles, California, United States

FoundedAlt-X · YC

About

Michael Wachsman is Co-Founder and CTO at Alt-X, an AI infrastructure platform for private-market investing, where he leads engineering and product architecture.

Founder at Alt-XYC W26

Intro paths

YC

Michael went through Y Combinator (Winter 2026) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

GP

Their group partner at YC was Garry Tan, President & CEO of Y Combinator — the partner who ran Alt-X's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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In turn, Michael can intro founders to Alt-X's investors below.

Alt-X's investors · 1

Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2026

Co-founders at Alt-X

RSRyan Samadi
Ryan SamadiFounder

Experience

  1. Alt-X (YC W26)CTOcurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco, CA
  2. New LanternFull-Stack Contractor2025San Francisco, California, United States
  3. LX AerBack End Developer2024 — 2025
  4. CATchainFull-stack Developer2024Ithaca, New York, United States
  5. Precision Systems Design LaboratoryMachine Learning Research Assistant2023 — 2024Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
  6. Self-employedPrivate Machine Learning Tutor2023 — 2024Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
  7. ProtivitiTechnology Consulting Intern2023Los Angeles, California, United States
  8. Axe Ventura LLCAxe Master2020 — 2023Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Skills & more

EnglishDjangoXojoSmart ContractsHTMLCascading Style Sheets (CSS)React.jsJavaScriptPython (Programming Language)MATLABK-Nearest Neighbors (KNN)Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN)
+12 moreServer Side ProgrammingGoProgrammingSoftware DevelopmentData StructuresAlgorithmsWeb DevelopmentStatistical Data AnalysisLong Short-term Memory (LSTM)Machine LearningConvolutional Neural Networks (CNN)Support Vector Machine (SVM)

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Michael Wachsman?
Michael Wachsman is Co-Founder and CTO at Alt-X, an AI infrastructure platform for private-market investing, where he leads engineering and product architecture.
Where does Michael Wachsman work?
Michael Wachsman is Founder of Alt-X.
What companies did Michael Wachsman found?
Michael Wachsman founded Alt-X.
Where did Michael Wachsman go to school?
Michael Wachsman studied at Cornell University (Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science); University of Michigan College of Engineering (Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science).

Founder mafias

Y Combinator mafia8,773

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Cornell University mafia218

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University of Michigan College of Engineering mafia23

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Same school

Also attended Cornell University748

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Bob StefanskiManaging Director at eLab VenturesRama SomayajulaHead of Trading at ParadigmBlaine RileyInvestor at Side Door VenturesNate RedmondPartner at Alpha EdisonHaley ProutInvestor at Gigascale CapitalJoe TouGeneral Partner at Triptyq Capital

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Shared employers

Also worked at New Lantern2

Eric VishriaGeneral Partner at BenchmarkAnamitra BanerjiCo-founder, Managing Partner at Afore Capital

Also worked at Protiviti22

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