Axelrod

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About Axelrod

YC company profile

Hotels that run themselves

Autonomous software for hotels that takes over all front-of-house and back-of-house tasks with zero integrations, running operations better than your staff would. Axelrod is trusted by Michelin Key awarded and Marriott hotels and is live across 3 continents.

  • YC batch: Summer 2026
  • Founded: 2026
  • Team size: 2
  • Location: San Francisco
  • Country: US
  • Status: Active
  • Industry: B2B
  • Stage: Early
  • Tags: Travel, AI
  • YC partner: Brad Flora

Founders

Adrian Lucas Tariel Stoica — Founder

Founder at Axelrod (YC S26). Previously research on AI Awareness. Co-produced records totaling 40M+ streams at Sony Music.

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Saman Sayahpour — Founder

Founder at Axelrod (YC S26). Dropped out of Carnegie Mellon's B.S. in Logic & Computation. Previously researched causal machine learning, prediction markets, photonic computing and collective decision-making. Admitted to study mathematics at the University of Vienna at 14.

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Source: Y Combinator · Retrieved 2026-11-02. Company information is self-reported on YC.