Phases appears in Y Combinator's company directory in the Summer 2025 batch, listed 2025-07-08. AI for the physical world.
Phases is a Y Combinator company in the Summer 2025 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: AI for the physical world. The founders listed are James Wall (Founder/CEO), Anton Zaliznyi (Co-founder & Chief AI Officer), Jonathan van Wersch (Founder/CTO) (Y Combinator directory entry, July 8, 2025).
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Phases | Novel solutions for frontier robotics labs
Phases builds novel solutions for frontier robotics labs.
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James Wall
Founder/CEO
AI for the physical world
Anton Zaliznyi
Co-founder & Chief AI Officer
Previously Robotics/AI Researcher at University of Toronto and SWE at Palantir.
Jonathan van Wersch
Founder/CTO
- Previously a software engineer at Meta, where I worked on integrating machine learning into the mobile ads manager app.
- Before Meta, I was at Improbable, a UK unicorn, where I helped scale the web platform team from 3 to 20 engineers.
- I hold a bachelors and masters in mechanical engineering from the University of Bath, where I was project manager and engineering lead for the university's rocket team.
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