Peter Vajda
FounderFounder at PerfectBit, Inc.
Stanford, California, United States
FoundedPerfectBit, Inc. · YC
About
Peter Vajda spent 11 years at Meta as Director of Media Generation, overseeing foundation model research and development across text-to-image, image editing, video generation, and on-device computer vision systems. He also held an Assistant Professor position at Stanford University.
Founder at PerfectBit, Inc.YC X26
Intro paths
YC
Peter went through Y Combinator (Spring 2026) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Their group partner at YC was Garry Tan, President & CEO of Y Combinator — the partner who ran PerfectBit, Inc.'s batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Peter can intro founders to PerfectBit, Inc.'s investors below.
PerfectBit, Inc.'s investors · 3
Co-founders at PerfectBit, Inc.
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Seiji YamamotoFounder
Experience
- PerfectBitCo-Founder and Co-CEOcurrent2026 — present
- MetaDirector of media generation, Meta SuperIntelligence Lab2014 — 2025Menlo Park, California, United States
- Caarbon Corp.Cofounder2014 — 2015San Francisco Bay Area
- Stanford UniversityVisiting Assistant Professor2012 — 2014Stanford
- Max Planck Institute for InformaticsJunior research group leader2012 — 2014
- ELCA Informatique SA / ELCA Informatik AGConsultant2012Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
Skills & more
Machine Learning38Computer Vision32Algorithms32Pattern Recognition18Computer Science14Image Processing11Signal Processing5Programming10Mathematical Modeling4Statistics3Information Retrieval3Natural Language Processing3
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OptimizationSoftware EngineeringEvolutionary ComputationMultimediaVideo AnalyticsApplied MathematicsDistributed SystemsTheoretical Computer ScienceMatlabLaTeXPythonRFrom Peter's professional profile.
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Peter Vajda?
- Peter Vajda spent 11 years at Meta as Director of Media Generation, overseeing foundation model research and development across text-to-image, image editing, video generation, and on-device computer vision systems. He also held an Assistant Professor position at Stanford University.
- Where does Peter Vajda work?
- Peter Vajda is Founder of PerfectBit, Inc..
- What companies did Peter Vajda found?
- Peter Vajda founded PerfectBit, Inc..
- Where did Peter Vajda go to school?
- Peter Vajda studied at EPFL (PhD, Computer Science); Eötvös Loránd University (M.Sc., Program Designer Mathematician); Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam) (M.Sc., Computer science).
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