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Webhound is a Y Combinator company in the Summer 2023 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Long-horizon research agents. The founders listed are Flynn Traeger (Founder), Bryn Hughes (Founder), Moe Khalil (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, July 20, 2023).
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Flynn Traeger
Founder
Software engineer by training but cut my teeth in headhunting so can't stop talking to people. Ex-Stanford rower. 2x All-American. Now I'm trying to make search better.
Bryn Hughes
Founder
Stanford CS 2023 grad with previous research in ASL translation with LLMs and model design.
Moe Khalil
Founder
Stanford CS '23
Porter Weisberg
Founder
Previously a C.S. major and all-academic rower at Stanford, and has been building startups since.
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