About
Stanislaw Piasecki is a co-founder of Grip, which builds physical-AI grippers for automating object handling in waste management. He was previously a founding engineer at URSA Mining working on autonomous excavators, and has worked on autonomous interceptor drones at CDDS, autonomous race cars at AMZ, and quadruped robotics at ANYbotics, and holds an MS in Computational Science and Engineering from ETH Zürich.
Founder at GripYC S26
Intro paths
YC
Stanislaw 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 Jared Friedman, YC Group Partner — the partner who ran Grip's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Stanislaw can intro founders to Grip's investors below.
Grip's investors · 3
Co-founders at Grip
JG
Jonas GruetterFounder
Experience
- GripCo-Foundercurrent2026 — present
- URSA MiningFounding Engineer2025 — 2026Nevada, United States
- CDDSRobotics Intern2025Zurich, Switzerland
- AMZ RacingModule Lead in Driverless Team2023 — 2024Zurich, Switzerland
- AMZ RacingCore Member in Driverless Team2022 — 2023Zurich, Switzerland
- ANYboticsLocomotion & Manipulation Intern2024Zurich, Switzerland
- ETH ZürichTeaching Assistant in Software Engineering2023 — 2024Zurich, Switzerland
- SitroxSoftware Engineer2022 — 2023Zurich, Switzerland
- ETH ZürichTeaching Assistant in Data Structures & Algorithms2021Zurich, Switzerland
Education
- ETH ZürichMaster of Science - MS, Computational Science and Engineering2022 — 2025
- KTH Royal Institute of Technology2024 — 2025
- ETH ZürichBachelor of Science - BS, Computational Science and Engineering2019 — 2022
- Y Combinator
Skills & more
Docker ProductsBash1SQLFrenchRuby on Rails1RubySoftware Development1Linux1FinanceEnglishGermanPolish
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C++Python (Programming Language)NumPyOpenMPNumerical AnalysisNumerical SimulationMonte Carlo SimulationGitAnalytical SkillsFrom Stanislaw's professional profile.
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Stanislaw Piasecki?
- Stanislaw Piasecki is a co-founder of Grip, which builds physical-AI grippers for automating object handling in waste management. He was previously a founding engineer at URSA Mining working on autonomous excavators, and has worked on autonomous interceptor drones at CDDS, autonomous race cars at AMZ, and quadruped robotics at ANYbotics, and holds an MS in Computational Science and Engineering from ETH Zürich.
- Where does Stanislaw Piasecki work?
- Stanislaw Piasecki is Founder of Grip.
- What companies did Stanislaw Piasecki found?
- Stanislaw Piasecki founded Grip.
- Where did Stanislaw Piasecki go to school?
- Stanislaw Piasecki studied at ETH Zürich (Master of Science - MS, Computational Science and Engineering); KTH Royal Institute of Technology; ETH Zürich (Bachelor of Science - BS, Computational Science and Engineering).
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