Maive (YC W25) — AI personal assistant for in-home sales
Maive is an AI automation platform for contractors providing home services
Maive is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2025 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: AI personal assistant for in-home sales. The founders listed are David Tondreau (Founder/CEO), Will Cray (Founder/CTO) (Y Combinator directory entry, February 21, 2025).
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Maive is an AI automation platform for contractors providing home services
David Tondreau
Founder/CEO
David is the co-founder and CEO of Maive.
He started his career as a manufacturing engineer at Rolls-Royce where he once uncovered quality issues due to missing paperwork that stopped production for a week. After obtaining a Masters in Engineering from UC Berkeley, David spent five years at Dexterity AI, a unicorn robotics startup. He began as a software engineer and ended as a senior manager leading product engineering.
David holds 15 patents spanning robotics and aerospace engineering.
Will Cray
Founder/CTO
Will is the co-founder and CTO of Maive.
Previously, Will was the Machine Learning and Computer Vision tech lead at Dexterity, a unicorn robotics company. Before Dexterity, Will founded his own computer vision and machine learning startup while pursuing a Master’s in Machine Learning at UT Austin. He started his career at Intel as a software engineer on their autonomous driving platform.
At 13, Will founded a business repairing broken Xbox 360’s and selling them on eBay.
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