Normal (YC S25) — Applied research lab for hardware design
Testing and certifying the hardware of the future
Normal is a Y Combinator company in the Summer 2025 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Applied research lab for hardware design. The founders listed are Anson Yu (Founder/CEO), Hudhayfa Nazoordeen (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, August 11, 2025).
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Normal is an applied research lab for hardware design. We advance frontier AI capabilities for those building hardware with data and evals.
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Anson Yu
Founder/CEO
Co-founder and CEO of Normal. Prev Engineering at Waterloo, Notion, and Fuse.
Hudhayfa Nazoordeen
Founder
Co-founder of Normal. Previously worked at Cohere and Xanadu
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