About
Sasha Zyuzin is the founder of Erinys (YC S26) and an undergraduate researcher at UMD focused on IPv6 botnet detection, malware analysis, and hardware security. He has presented vulnerability discovery research at Black Hat USA 2025 and spoken at the SANS OSINT Summit 2025, and previously taught an OSINT course and led UMD's cybersecurity club of over 1,800 members.
Founder at ErinysYC S26
Intro paths
YC
Sasha went through Y Combinator (Summer 2026) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
GP
Their group partner at YC was Diana Hu, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Erinys's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Sasha can intro founders to Erinys's investors below.
Erinys's investors · 1
Co-founders at Erinys
JG
Jason GuoFounder
MP
Matthew PallanFounder
Experience
- Studio (YC S26)Co-Foundercurrent2026 — presentSan Francisco, CA
- Berkeley ConsultingConsultantcurrent2025 — presentBerkeley, CA
- GI PartnersAI Engineering2026San Francisco, CA
- Founders You Should KnowOperations2026Berkeley, CA
- University of California, BerkeleyResearcher: CDSS2025 — 2026Berkeley, CA
- Nelumbium CapitalMachine Learning Engineer2025 — 2026Berkeley, CA
- Blue OriginTechnical Strategy Consultant2025Berkeley, California, United States
- UC IrvineResearcher @ UCI Department of Data Science2023Irvine, California, United States
- Stanford UniversityResearch Scholar2023
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Sasha Zyuzin?
- Sasha Zyuzin is the founder of Erinys (YC S26) and an undergraduate researcher at UMD focused on IPv6 botnet detection, malware analysis, and hardware security. He has presented vulnerability discovery research at Black Hat USA 2025 and spoken at the SANS OSINT Summit 2025, and previously taught an OSINT course and led UMD's cybersecurity club of over 1,800 members.
- Where does Sasha Zyuzin work?
- Sasha Zyuzin is Founder of Erinys.
- What companies did Sasha Zyuzin found?
- Sasha Zyuzin founded Erinys.
- Where did Sasha Zyuzin go to school?
- Sasha Zyuzin studied at UC Berkeley Management, Entrepreneurship, & Technology (M.E.T.) program (EECS + Business Administration, Business Administration and Management); Y Combinator; UC Berkeley College of Engineering (Bachelor's degree, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science).
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