Zakariea Sharfeddine
FounderCEO at InLoop Robotics
San Francisco, California, United States
FoundedInLoop Robotics · YC
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Debtanu GangulyunlockedZakariea: together at Bosch (2024)
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Zakariea: together at BOKU University
About
Zakariea Sharfeddine worked in machine learning roles at Bosch and BMW before founding InLoop Robotics, where he focuses on embodied AI systems.
CEO at InLoop RoboticsYC X26
Intro paths
YC
Zakariea 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 InLoop Robotics's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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Co-founders at InLoop Robotics
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Experience
- InLoop Robotics (YC P26)Co-Founder & CEOcurrent2026 — presentSan Francisco, CA
- RoboTUMReinforcement Learning / Humanoid Robotics Engineer2025Greater Munich Metropolitan Area
- BMW GroupData Scientist and Machine Learning Engineer2024 — 2025Greater Munich Metropolitan Area
- BoschAI in Manufacturing2024Bühl
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)Scientific Researcher2024Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
- FZI Forschungszentrum InformatikResearch Assistant2023Karlsruhe
- KITecPresident and Co-Founder of an AI student initiative2023Karlsruhe
- FreelanceFull-Stack-Entwickler2020 — 2023
Skills & more
Simulation1Reinforcement LearningObject-Oriented Programming (OOP)Machine Learning1GPT-4Large Language Models (LLM)1Artificial Intelligence (AI)Team BuildingProject ManagementEntrepreneurshipData Science2Qiskit
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Amazon Web Services (AWS)Python (Programming Language)PyTorchDjangoHTML5Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)LangChainLLaMALarge Language Model Operations (LLMOps)Isaac SimIsaac LabVLALanguages English · German
- Sustainable Entrepeneurship — BOKU University
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- Who is Zakariea Sharfeddine?
- Zakariea Sharfeddine worked in machine learning roles at Bosch and BMW before founding InLoop Robotics, where he focuses on embodied AI systems.
- Where does Zakariea Sharfeddine work?
- Zakariea Sharfeddine is CEO of InLoop Robotics.
- What companies did Zakariea Sharfeddine found?
- Zakariea Sharfeddine founded InLoop Robotics.
- Where did Zakariea Sharfeddine go to school?
- Zakariea Sharfeddine studied at Y Combinator (Spring Batch 2026); Technical University of Munich (Master of Science - MS, Informatics); Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) (Bachelor of Science - BS, Informatik).
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Shared employers
Also worked at InLoop Robotics (YC P26)2
Also worked at RoboTUM1
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