About
Victor Gardrinier holds degrees in financial engineering from HEC Montreal and computer science with an entrepreneurship focus from Stanford. He previously worked as an investor at Front Row Ventures focused on space and satellite ventures, interned at Microsoft during the Windows 10 launch, and developed an Ethereum-based peer-to-peer solar energy application with support from a ConsenSys grant. He is a co-founder of SolarMente.
Victor Gardrinier @grdrvictor
there's this whole class of work that creates insane nominal output but zero alpha, tracking, reporting, keeping everyone synced on stuff that already happened. it only exists because your context is scattered, half in your tools, half in slack. agents can read both now.. if you https://t.co/hnt73pHPzA
Aug 1, 2026
Victor Gardrinier @grdrvictor
we just shipped mio 1.0 iβve been using it for reporting, debugging, analysis, all the annoying stuff. you can expect to get ~5-10h back per week. mio lives in slack, remembers context, plugs into everything. it's early dayzzz but getting better fast. i like the idea that https://t.co/El6POD51MQ
Jul 16, 2026 Β· β₯ 3
Victor Gardrinier @grdrvictor
"Build a LLM from Scratch" changed my life excited for this one @rasbt ! https://t.co/8t6CEXNC42
Jul 2, 2026 Β· β₯ 3
Founder at SolarMenteYC S21
Intro paths
Victor went through Y Combinator (Summer 2021) β any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was Gustaf Alstromer β the partner who ran SolarMente's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile β
In turn, Victor can intro founders to SolarMente's investors below.
SolarMente's investors Β· 1
Co-founders at SolarMente
