About
Tony Montes is co-founder and CTO of Zolvo (YCP26). He previously worked as a founding AI engineer at Domu (YC S24), where he developed voice AI infrastructure serving enterprise fintech clients. His background includes AI research published at ACL and EMNLP conferences and work on generative models at Cornell.
Founder/CTO at ZolvoYC X26
Intro paths
YC
Tony went through Y Combinator (Spring 2026) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Their group partner at YC was Tom Blomfield, Monzo and GoCardless co-founder; Y Combinator partner on leave and Anthropic compute-team member. — the partner who ran Zolvo's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Tony can intro founders to Zolvo's investors below.
Zolvo's investors · 1
Co-founders at Zolvo
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Isabela RodriguezFounder/CEO
Experience
- ZolvoFounder & CTOcurrent2026 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- DomuFounding AI Engineer2025San Francisco Bay Area
- ProCibernéticaData Engineer2024 — 2025Bogotá, Distrito Capital, Colombia
- Universidad de los Andes - ColombiaResearch Assistant (RA)2022 — 2024Bogotá, Distrito Capital, Colombia
- Universidad de los Andes - ColombiaTeaching Assistant (TA)2020 — 2024Bogotá, Distrito Capital, Colombia
- ITTIFreelance Software Developer2022Bogotá, Distrito Capital, Colombia
Skills & more
Research1Natural Language Processing (NLP)3ControlNetLLMGCP3DAIMLTypeScriptExpress.jsAgileCync Factoring2
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RAGPyTorchBERT (Language Model)CLIPGenerative AIPythonNode.jsJavaScriptDjangoGitTensorFlowKerasLanguages Inglés
- Generative AI with Diffusion Models — NVIDIA
- Fundamentals of Deep Learning — NVIDIA
- Generative AI Fundamentals — Google
- Building Transformer-Based Natural Language Processing Applications — NVIDIA
- Finalist Team in Hackaton — Microsoft
- Member of Robocol, team of robotics at Universidad de los Andes. (2022) — Robocol Colombia
- Mathematics coursed with honors at Universidad de los Andes — Universidad de Los Andes
- Hotbed of Scientific and Technologic Talents, and participation in Expociencia Expotecnología — Fundación Universitaria Konrad Lorenz
From Tony's professional profile.
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Tony Montes?
- Tony Montes is co-founder and CTO of Zolvo (YCP26). He previously worked as a founding AI engineer at Domu (YC S24), where he developed voice AI infrastructure serving enterprise fintech clients. His background includes AI research published at ACL and EMNLP conferences and work on generative models at Cornell.
- Where does Tony Montes work?
- Tony Montes is Founder/CTO of Zolvo.
- What companies did Tony Montes found?
- Tony Montes founded Zolvo.
- Where did Tony Montes go to school?
- Tony Montes studied at Cornell University (Academic Research Program); Y Combinator (P26); Universidad de Los Andes (Bachelor's degree, Systems and Computing Engineering).
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