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Saad Jamal

Founder

Founder at Antigen

San Francisco, California, United States

FoundedAntigen Β· YC

About

Saad Jamal is co-founder of Antigen. He previously worked on machine learning infrastructure at Tesla Autopilot, developed an ML compiler framework at Nuro, and trained reasoning models with Ashish Vaswani. He also clerked at the Supreme Court of Pakistan and attended UChicago Law School.

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Saad Jamal @sadjamz_

spent the past week trying different variants of setting up my software factory; chatgpt cloud to cursor cloud to just running agents remotely on my own kube cluster. i just got a mac mini and let me tell you its totally worth it. universal control between the mini and the mbp is

Jul 25, 2026 Β· β™₯ 5

Saad Jamal @sadjamz_

gpt5.6 sol for planning + opus4.8 with /goal for execution + sonnet 5 for quick questions

Jul 22, 2026 Β· β™₯ 3

Saad Jamal @sadjamz_

how is any of this real, like how are these real people, they literally talk like cartoons. https://t.co/xxoyBcCjyB

Jul 22, 2026 Β· β™₯ 1

Founder at AntigenYC F25

Intro paths

YC

Saad went through Y Combinator (Fall 2025) β€” any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

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Their group partner at YC was Aaron Epstein, General Partner at Y Combinator β€” the partner who ran Antigen's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile β†—

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In turn, Saad can intro founders to Antigen's investors below.

Antigen's investors Β· 1

Y Combinator

Co-founders at Antigen

ANAbdullah Nauman
Abdullah NaumanFounder

Experience

  1. AntigenCo-Founder // CEOcurrent2025 β€” presentSan Francisco, CA
  2. Essential AIMember of Technical Staff2025San Francisco, California, United States
  3. NuroML Compiler Engineer2024Mountain View, California, United States
  4. TeslaAutopilot Engineer2021 β€” 2024Palo Alto, California, United States
  5. HashiCorpSoftware Engineering Intern2021San Francisco Bay Area
  6. NASA Ames Research CenterResearch Scholar2020 β€” 2021Mountain View, California
  7. American Red CrossOpen Source Developer2020 β€” 2021
  8. UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS)Academic Student Employee2020 β€” 2021
  9. California Partners For Advanced Transportation TechnologyResearch Assistant2020

Education

  1. University of Chicago Law SchoolDoctor of Law - JD2024 β€” 2025
  2. University of California, BerkeleyBachelor's degree, Computer Science2019 β€” 2021
  3. Y Combinator2025

Skills & more

  • HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate β€” HashiCorp
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner β€” Amazon Web Services (AWS)

From Saad's professional profile.

Same school

Also attended University of Chicago Law School20

David SacksCo-founder & General Partner at Craft Ventures; former White House AI & Crypto CzarAbigail JohnsonPartner, Chief Operating Officer at Sapphire VenturesAmanda BuschGeneral Counsel at Mucker CapitalMike GomezInvestor at CapitalGKarl WachterGeneral Counsel, Partner at Magnetar AI VenturesRamis KhanInvestor at SUPPLY CHANGE CAPITAL

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Also attended University of California, Berkeley995

Byron DeeterPartner at Bessemer Venture PartnersTrevor OelschigInvestment Team at General CatalystBrendan Bulik-SullivanInvestor at GV (Google Ventures)Glen AndersonPartner at Monta Vista CapitalAnthony LinHead of Intel Capital, Corporate Vice President at Intel CapitalScott ShawChief of Staff at Intel Capital

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Also attended Y Combinator1,466

Akshat GoenkaInvestor at Moonfire VenturesJon XuGeneral Partner at Y CombinatorTed ChaiAssociate at Scale Venture PartnersLeo LuInvestor at Foundation CapitalMaroof AhmedFounder at Octopus VenturesYusuf SherwaniCo-Founder and CEO at Pelago; a Londoner living in New York City

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Shared employers

Also worked at Antigen2

Aabhas KhannaGeneral Partner at MyAsiaVCAbdullah NaumanFounder at Antigen

Also worked at Nuro6

Sam Smith-EppsteinerPartner at Innovation EndeavorsHenry LauInvestment Manager at Saltagen VenturesJohnathan BuddInvestor at Matter Venture PartnersJohn LillyInvestor at Gigascale CapitalKarim BoustaCo-Founder & Partner at DVx VenturesAlan LiuCEO/Founder at Health Harbor

Also worked at Tesla94

Steve JurvetsonCo-founder of Future VenturesArpan ShahInvestor at Spark CapitalJustin LiuVice President at Sapphire VenturesErica WaichmanHead of People & Community at Canvas VenturesBen FawEntrepreneur-in-Residence at Context VenturesBrock CsiraInvestor at Matter Venture Partners

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Also worked at NASA Ames Research Center23

Lindsey YeePrincipal at Starbridge Venture Capital LlcMelissa LokugamageSenior Venture Associate at 82VSRohit RaoInvestor at Two Sigma VenturesRyan AbronskiSenior Associate at Morgan Creek CapitalAshwin LalendranInvestor at Moxxie VenturesDipty DesaiVenture Partner at Elevate Capital

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