Maitai

Maitai

Reliable, self-improving enterprise AI

San Francisco
6 employees
Engineering, Product and Design
Pre-seed · $125K

Company details

Team Size6
LocationSan Francisco
IndustryEngineering, Product and Design

Funding

Total raised

$125K

Last stage

Pre-seed

Investors

Y Combinator
Pioneer Fund

Founders

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Christian

Co-founder of Maitai (YC S24), building a self-optimizing LLM platform that autocorrects bad responses and fine-tunes models.

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Ian

Co-founder of Maitai (YC S24), developing an LLM platform for reliable AI applications with request optimization and continuous improvement.

Ian Hoegen

Ian Hoegen

Founder and CTO @ Maitai. Previously a Tech Lead at Presto (S10), delivering CV based analytics and LLM powered voice ordering for the enterprise drive thru. A true jack of all trades, I have hands-on experience with infrastructure, software development, the machine learning stack, and everything in between.

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Christian DalSanto

Christian DalSanto

Founder and CEO @ Maitai. Previous co-founder at Yew, led the AI engineering org at Presto (S10), and Big Bets team at Earnin. I spent most of my career getting AI applications from skunkworks to production, and then scaling them from there.

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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.