Fern

Fern

RL environments for robotics companies

2 employees
Robotics
Seed

About Fern

Fern provides RL environments for robotics companies powered by a foundational world model. Companies can plug and play their robot policies completely in software with varying starting scenes of their production environment, and we'll produce RL heads on top of your existing policies to improve speed and success rate. Our customers get a continual learning flywheel where their production robots improve every week.

Company details

Team Size2
IndustryRobotics

Funding

Last stage

Seed

Investors

Y Combinator

Founders

Robert Xu

Robert Xu

Co-founder & CTO of Ishiki Labs (W26). Previously worked on multi-modal AI and Orion AR glasses at Meta and research infra at Citadel Securities.

LinkedIn
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Amit Yadav

Co-Founder at Fern (YC W26). Ex-Meta AI Scientist from the LLaMA team and Reality Labs. PhD in AI with 20+ publications at NeurIPS, CVPR, and ICASSP.

What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.