Peer
New accelerator entry · 2026-08-10 · the record
In their words
Peer is building an AI-native freight brokerage that quotes freight, finds the right trucking companies, tracks shipments, and handles problems from pickup through delivery for shippers.
What the record says
Co-founder and CEO of Peer. Majored in Computer Science at Harvey Mudd College and dropped out for YC S26. Built AI voice agents for trucking fleets at Waylens (a trucking telematics company) and researched AI agents and computer vision at the MIT Media Lab (City Science Lab, Taipei). Led the Claremont Accelerator, which raised $124K to back student startups. 1st @ Google DeepMind Hackathon at UCLA with Felix.
Cofounder of Peer. CS/Engineering at Harvey Mudd. Engineering with Apple, IBM, Magnefy, and others. At LADWP shipped internal AI tools to 250+ staff. 1st Place National, DOE EnergyTech University Prize ($25K, youngest winner). Won the Google DeepMind Hackathon with Aaron Zhang. President and founding team of the Claremont Accelerator; raised $124K from alumni, AWS, and Google to back student startups.
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Against the 209 companies on file from Summer 2026. Median team 2, largest 30.
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|---|---|---|---|
| Frontier Computing | Summer 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Hard Tech, Hardware | 2026-08-31 |
| Ethos Space Resources | Summer 2026 | Hard Tech, Exascale Computing, Energy | 2026-08-23 |
| Spectre Intelligence | Summer 2026 | Biotech, Investing, Trading | 2026-08-22 |
| Edgerun | Summer 2026 | Robotics, Defense | 2026-08-21 |
| Allia Health | Summer 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Healthcare, Mental Health | 2026-08-19 |
| Peer (this page) | Summer 2026 | Digital Freight Brokerage, Logistics | 2026-08-10 |
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