About Makora (Formerly Mako)
Our technology eliminates the need for expensive and manual GPU optimization.
MAKORAGENERATE is an AI agent that writes and validates GPU kernels in CUDA, TRITON, and more.
MAKORAOPTIMIZE automatically tunes hyperparameters in VLLM and SGLANG to maximize performance.
MAKORA was formerly known as MAKO.
Company details
Funding
Total raised
$8.5M
Last stage
Seed
Investors
Founders
Waleed Atallah
Previously worked as a Product Manager at Untether AI and Intel. Met co-founder Mohamed Abdelfattah while working at Intel on AI chip development.
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Mohamed Abdelfattah
Assistant Professor at Cornell Tech and Cornell Engineering. Previously Principal Scientist at Samsung Electronics and Machine Learning Acceleration Engineer at Intel.
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Lukasz Dudziak
Former AI researcher and engineer at Samsung Electronics and Intel. Prior collaborator of Abdelfattah at Samsung.
LinkedInWhat happens next.
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.