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Otso Veisterä

Founder

Founder at The Token Company

San Francisco Bay Area

FoundedThe Token Company · YC

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54 people in our graph share verified history with Otso — schools, employers, funds. One of them is your warm intro.

Robert LacherunlockedOtso: together at The Token Company (2025–2026)
×4Otso: together at The Token Company
×7Otso: together at Z-Fellows

About

Founder of The Token Company, which builds Bear-2, a compression model that reduces LLM input sizes to enable more context with fewer tokens.

Founder at The Token CompanyYC W26

Intro paths

YC

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

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Their group partner at YC was Jared Friedman, YC Group Partner — the partner who ran The Token Company's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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In turn, Otso can intro founders to The Token Company's investors below.

The Token Company's investors · 5

Failup VenturesHelsinki · $200K – $1M checksInception Fund$110K – $1.1M checksVisionaries ClubBerlin · $900K checksWave VenturesHelsinkiY CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2026

Experience

  1. The Token Company (YC W26)Foundercurrent2025 — present

Frequently asked questions

Who is Otso Veisterä?
Founder of The Token Company, which builds Bear-2, a compression model that reduces LLM input sizes to enable more context with fewer tokens.
Where does Otso Veisterä work?
Otso Veisterä is Founder of The Token Company.
What companies did Otso Veisterä found?
Otso Veisterä founded The Token Company.
Where did Otso Veisterä go to school?
Otso Veisterä studied at Y Combinator (W26); FR8; Z Fellows.

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