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Tim Suchanek

Founder

Founder at expand.ai

San Francisco, California, United States

Foundedexpand.ai · YC

About

Tim Suchanek was founding engineer at Prisma and founder of Stellate, where he worked on developer tools for eight years before starting expand.ai, which helps developers access web data for AI applications.

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Tim Suchanek @timsuchanek

Hopefully the frontier labs are gonna prioritize this work https://t.co/4CpsguRod9 - clankers can write a lot of code, many folks don't review it anymore and as we see if even Fable can only resolve 25% of incidents, we're in trouble.

Jul 31, 2026 · ♥ 1

Tim Suchanek @timsuchanek

The new flex from frontier labs is how "dangerous" their model is by the number of systems it hacked into.

Jul 31, 2026 · ♥ 2

Tim Suchanek @timsuchanek

https://t.co/eFNNCIk6je this is actually a very exciting change! will try tomorrow with a big pr

Jul 31, 2026 · ♥ 4

Founder at expand.aiYC S24

Intro paths

YC

Tim went through Y Combinator (Summer 2024) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

GP

Their group partner at YC was Nicolas Dessaigne, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran expand.ai's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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In turn, Tim can intro founders to expand.ai's investors below.

expand.ai's investors · 2

Script CapitalY Combinator

Experience

  1. expand.ai (YC S24)Foundercurrent2024 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
  2. StellateCo-Founder of Stellate2021 — 2023Berlin, Germany
  3. PrismaTechnical Lead2016 — 2021Berlin
  4. Wizart LabsCo-creation2016Berlin, Germany
  5. YRAL.TVCo-creation2014 — 2015Berlin, Germany
  6. Hubert Burda MediaInnovation Bootcamp2014
  7. CrowddiningCo-creation2013 — 2014Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
  8. SAPWorking Student2013 — 2014Walldorf, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Education

  1. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science2011 — 2015

Skills & more

Redis1Frontend-Entwicklung2Start-ups8JavaScript14MongoDB1Node.js6

From Tim's professional profile.

Founder mafias

Y Combinator mafia8,668

Also came through, then founded or led a company.

Sam AltmanPresidentFounded LooptFred EhrsamYC Summer 2012Founded CoinbaseMatt HuangYC Winter 2011Founded HotspotsTrae StephensYC Winter 2022Founded PursuitDelian AsparouhovYC Summer 2014Founded Nightingale +1Justin KanYC Winter 2018Founded Rye +3

+ 8,661 more

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) mafia15

Also came through, then founded or led a company.

Jonny DimondDiplomFounded Tasklet +1Holger WagnerMasterFounded nextract energyRobin BudigMasterFounded nextract energyChristoph DrexlerMaster of Science - MSFounded KitekraftMaik Taro WehmeyerIndustrial EngineeringFounded TaktileJulian EnglertBachelor of Science - BSFounded Adaptyv

+ 8 more

Same school

Also attended Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)65

Bastian HasslingerInvestor at Index VenturesHelge DaebelPartner, Head of Water at Emerald Technology Ventures AgThomasGeneral Partner at Acadian Ventures Management, LlcThomas MeierPartner, Head of Resilience in Energy & Resources Investments at Verve VenturesChristian SiegeleManaging Partner at CapnamicAndreas StryzCTO at FINN at PICUS CAPITAL

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Shared employers

Also worked at Stellate1

Ellen ChisaPartner at boldstart ventures

Also worked at Prisma6

Tristan HandyFounder, dbt Labs at Amplify PartnersLenny PrussGeneral Partner at Amplify PartnersEtel FriedmannAssociate at Lunar VenturesArmy TunjaiconVice President at CapitalGBucky MoorePartner at Kleiner PerkinsRene BrandelFounder at Casco

Also worked at Hubert Burda Media16

Christian TeichmannCEO & Managing Director at Burda Principal InvestmentsPeter KennedySenior Adviser at Burda Principal InvestmentsJosephine LuschInvestment Associate at Burda Principal InvestmentsDaniela LiebischerHead of Finance at Burda Principal InvestmentsYuan Lee ChungPartner at Cento VenturesRupert SchäferInvestment Team at 10x Founders

+ 10 more

Also worked at SAP154

Quentin ClarkInvestment Team at General CatalystSteve SinghManaging Director at Madrona Venture GroupJohn TorreyVenture Partner at Madrona Venture GroupAnders RanumPartner at Sapphire VenturesRami BranitzkyPartner at Sapphire VenturesAnne GheriniChief Marketing Officer at Sierra Ventures

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