Instance
YC Summer 2026 ActiveAutomated evals for robot policies
https://www.instancelabs.ai/ ↗Thesis fit
Off-thesis
Outside your stated focus; easy to skip unless something exceptional.
Below your usual filter (40+)
Idea match
Light
How close the company’s idea is to your thesis statement
Sector
None
Overlap with sectors you care about
Geography
Unknown
Location unknown — scores 0
Your thesis: “We back exceptional technical founders building AI-first products and infrastructure, deploying $100K checks within 24 hours.”
Founder → stable
Traction → stable
Idea vs market ↓ declining
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People
Claire Mao
MIT Math + CS. Prev @ NASA (JPL), BCG, MIT Media Lab
0.0
low confidence
Lucy Cai
MIT CS + AI. Robotics research @ MIT LIS Lab; prev @ SpaceX, Amazon (AWS)
0.0
low confidence