Refresh (YC X25) — Training gyms for computer use and software engineering work
Building RL environments for coding and computer use.
Refresh is a Y Combinator company in the Spring 2025 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Training gyms for computer use and software engineering work. The founders listed are Christopher Settles (Founder/CEO), Erik Quintanilla (Founder/CTO) (Y Combinator directory entry, April 28, 2025).
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Refresh builds simulation engines for coding and computer use, for frontier labs to train the next generation of virtual software engineering collaborators.
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Christopher Settles
Founder/CEO
Co-founder and CEO @ Refresh | ex-ML @ Uber, CS @ UIUC.
Erik Quintanilla
Founder/CTO
Co-founder and CTO @ Refresh | ex- @Amazon @CapitalOne
Previous focus has been in vision data, voice data, tabular data in the form of data pipelines. Web scale scraping previously.
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