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Ndea

Building AGI that can innovate.

ActiveChecked 18h ago
Batch
W26
Status, per YC
Active
Team size
15
HQ
Remote
In W26199 companies, 80% AI
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Founders

  • Francois CholletFounder
  • Mike KnoopFounder

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About Ndea

Ndea is building frontier AI systems that blend intuitive pattern recognition and formal reasoning into a unified architecture. # AI for Scientific Advancement Unlike all life before us, humanity's ascent is a story of ingenuity, not just biological evolution. Our progress has been driven by the curiosity to acquire knowledge, the ability to pass it on, and an intrinsic drive to innovate. We build technology which gives us leverage beyond our biology. We stand at the top of a knowledge and technology colossus that we collectively created over the past ten thousand generations. Scientific progress has helped us overcome burdens that long defined human life — famines, plagues, and widespread illiteracy. Science will continue to redefine the boundaries of the human condition. Today, the acceleration of scientific progress hinges on one factor: AI capable of independent invention and discovery. This capacity is the gateway to advancements beyond our wildest imagination. # A New Research Lab We're starting Ndea — an AI research and science lab. The name - like 'idea' with an 'n' - is inspired by the Greek concepts ennoia (intuitive understanding) and dianoia (logical reasoning), capturing our first goal to merge deep learning with program synthesis. Ndea is entirely focused on developing and operationalizing AGI to realize unprecedented scientific progress in our lifetime for the benefit of all current and future generations. Building AGI alone is a monumental undertaking, but our mission is even bigger. We're creating a factory for rapid scientific advancement — a factory capable of inventing and commercializing N ideas. From our vantage point today, we see many 'known' frontiers like self-driving vehicles, drug discovery, sustainable energy, robotics, and space exploration. While AGI will benefit all of these, the most exciting adventure lies in the 'unknown'. AGI promises discoveries and progress we cannot imagine today.

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Ndea: questions

Which YC batch was Ndea in?

Ndea was in Y Combinator's Winter 2026 batch (W26).

Is Ndea still active?

Y Combinator lists Ndea as active.

Who founded Ndea?

Ndea's founders, as listed on its YC page: Francois Chollet (Founder), Mike Knoop (Founder).

Where is Ndea based?

Ndea lists Remote as its location on YC's directory.

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