Where does Stela Tong work?

Stela Tong is CTO of DeepAware AI (Robotics Center of Silicon Valley).

What companies did Stela Tong found?

Stela Tong founded DeepAware AI (Robotics Center of Silicon Valley).

Stela Tong

Founder

CTO at DeepAware AI (Robotics Center of Silicon Valley)

Stanford, California, United States

FoundedDeepAware AI (Robotics Center of Silicon Valley) · YC

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About

Founder of DeepAware AI, a robotics infrastructure provider offering hardware, data collection, AI training, and fleet teleoperation services for physical AI systems.

CTO at DeepAware AI (Robotics Center of Silicon Valley)YC S25

Intro paths

Stela went through Y Combinator (Summer 2025) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

Their group partner at YC was Ankit Gupta, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran DeepAware AI (Robotics Center of Silicon Valley)'s batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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In turn, Stela can intro founders to DeepAware AI (Robotics Center of Silicon Valley)'s investors below.

DeepAware AI (Robotics Center of Silicon Valley)'s investors · 8

Andreessen HorowitzMenlo Park · $500K – $50M checks Augur VCCalgary Exit Ventures Golden Gate VenturesSingapore · $1M – $5M checks N+1 CapitalGurugram Sand Hill North VenturesMontreal Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2025 Zypsy CapitalSan Francisco · $50K – $400K checks

Co-founders at DeepAware AI (Robotics Center of Silicon Valley)

Jerry HuangCEO

Frequently asked questions

Who is Stela Tong?: Founder of DeepAware AI, a robotics infrastructure provider offering hardware, data collection, AI training, and fleet teleoperation services for physical AI systems.
Where does Stela Tong work?: Stela Tong is CTO of DeepAware AI (Robotics Center of Silicon Valley).
What companies did Stela Tong found?: Stela Tong founded DeepAware AI (Robotics Center of Silicon Valley).

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