Pablo Palafox
FounderFounder at HappyRobot
San Francisco, California, United States
FoundedHappyRobot · YC
About
Pablo Palafox is a cofounder of HappyRobot (S23) and previously conducted doctoral research in computer vision at TU Munich while completing internships in computer vision and augmented reality at Meta's Reality Labs.
Founder at HappyRobotYC S23
Intro paths
YC
Pablo went through Y Combinator (Summer 2023) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Their group partner at YC was Diana Hu, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran HappyRobot's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Pablo can intro founders to HappyRobot's investors below.
HappyRobot's investors · 8
Andreessen HorowitzMenlo Park · $500K – $50M checks · since 2025Array Ventures Management LlcSan Francisco · $1.5M checks · since 2025Baobab VenturesBarcelonaBase10 PartnersSan Francisco · $100K – $5M checks · since 2025SignalRankWorld Innovation LabPalo Alto · since 2025World Innovation Lab (WiL)Palo Alto · $5M – $30M checks · since 2025Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2023
Co-founders at HappyRobot
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Luis PaarupFounder
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Javier PalafoxFounder
Experience
- HappyRobotCo-Founder & CEOcurrent2023 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- Technical University MunichResearcher and PhD Candidate @ 3D AI Lab under Prof. Angela Dai2019 — 2022Greater Munich Metropolitan Area
- Technical University MunichResearch Assistant @ Daniel Cremers' Computer Vision Group2019 — 2020Greater Munich Metropolitan Area
- Technical University MunichResearch Assistant @ Matthias Niessner's Visual Computing & Artificial Intelligence Group2018 — 2019Greater Munich Metropolitan Area
- PRO UnlimitedResearch Intern2021 — 2022PRO @ Meta
- MetaResearch Intern2021Sausalito, California, United States
- Robdos Team Underwater RoboticsComputer Vision Engineer2014 — 2017Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- IPB SystemsSoftware Engineer [Sidejob]2016 — 2017Greater Madrid Metropolitan Area
- Universidad Politécnica de MadridUndergraduate Student Researcher [Research Grant]2015 — 2016Greater Madrid Metropolitan Area
Skills & more
C++24tensorflow6C (Programming Language)12Python1Matlab11Ubuntu9Arduino9PyTorchRecurrent Neural Networks (RNN)Deep Neural Networks (DNN)ROS17Computer Vision1
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RoboticsDeep LearningOpenCVSLAMVIORobot Operating System (ROS)3D ReconstructionARVirtual Reality (VR)VRAndroid DevelopmentConvolutional Neural Networks (CNN)Languages English · French · German · Italian · Spanish
- ThePower Business School — thePower
- Cambridge English: Proficiency (C2) — Cambridge English
- International General Certificate of Secondary Education — University of Cambridge
From Pablo's professional profile.
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Pablo Palafox?
- Pablo Palafox is a cofounder of HappyRobot (S23) and previously conducted doctoral research in computer vision at TU Munich while completing internships in computer vision and augmented reality at Meta's Reality Labs.
- Where does Pablo Palafox work?
- Pablo Palafox is Founder of HappyRobot.
- What companies did Pablo Palafox found?
- Pablo Palafox founded HappyRobot.
- Where did Pablo Palafox go to school?
- Pablo Palafox studied at Technical University of Munich (Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Vision & Deep Learning); thePower (ThePowerMBA Future Leaders Program, Business Administration and Management); Technical University of Munich (Master's Thesis, Computer Vision Group).
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