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Paul Leutheuser

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Founder at Applied Electrodynamics, Inc.

San Francisco, California, United States

FoundedApplied Electrodynamics, Inc. · YC

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Paul Leutheuser is a hardware product design engineer who worked on new iPhone features—including a haptic home button and an IPX8 sealed enclosure—and later led the Product Design team and shipped early-stage products at Humane. He holds 11 patents and a Mechanical Engineering degree from UC Berkeley, and now leads Applied Electrodynamics, which is developing WaveSight, sensing hardware that detects objects through walls.

Founder at Applied Electrodynamics, Inc.YC S26

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

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Their group partner at YC was Jon Xu, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Applied Electrodynamics, Inc.'s batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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Who is Paul Leutheuser?
Paul Leutheuser is a hardware product design engineer who worked on new iPhone features—including a haptic home button and an IPX8 sealed enclosure—and later led the Product Design team and shipped early-stage products at Humane. He holds 11 patents and a Mechanical Engineering degree from UC Berkeley, and now leads Applied Electrodynamics, which is developing WaveSight, sensing hardware that detects objects through walls.
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Paul Leutheuser is Founder of Applied Electrodynamics, Inc..
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