Stillwind is a fractional librarian for startups. Customers give us the parts they want to put into designs and we give them footprints, symbols and 3d models made from the manufacturers datasheet.
Stillwind is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2025 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: PCB component librarian. The founders listed are Linus Meierhöfer (Founder/CEO), Hannes Furmans (Founder/CTO), Josef Zoller (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, February 24, 2025).
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Stillwind is a fractional librarian for startups. Customers give us the parts they want to put into designs and we give them footprints, symbols and 3d models made from the manufacturers datasheet.
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Stillwind fixes bad footprints and footprint libraries at low cost — symbols and 3D models next. Plus an AI-powered electronic component search engine.
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Linus Meierhöfer
Founder/CEO
Co-founder & CEO @ Stillwind. Previously researched quantified complexity theory. Worked in Quantitative Engineering @ DRW. Studied CS @ ETH Zurich.
Hannes Furmans
Founder/CTO
Co-founder & CTO @ Stillwind
Did CS at ETH Zürich. Did open source work on libp2p.
Josef Zoller
Founder
Co-founder & Chief Engineering Officer @ Stillwind. CS @ ETH Zürich. I’m a full-stack software engineer but specialize in networks, systems programming, and ML.
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