Grip
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About Grip
YC company profile
Robots for waste manipulation
Grip is a robotics company building intelligent robotic systems for waste and recycling. We are starting with organic waste, where removing contaminants from messy, constantly changing streams remains difficult and highly manual. Our technology combines learning-based manipulation and custom hardware to identify and pick objects, learning from real-world operating data, including every successful and failed grasp, to become more reliable and adaptable over time. This helps waste operators reduce manual sorting, recover more valuable material, lower contamination, and deploy automation flexibly across facilities. Over time, Grip aims to expand beyond organics and build the intelligent manipulation layer for trash in general, making waste processing and the circular economy more efficient and scalable.
- YC batch: Summer 2026
- Founded: 2026
- Team size: 4
- Location: Zürich, Switzerland
- Country: CH
- Status: Active
- Industry: Industrials
- Stage: Early
- Tags: Robotic Process Automation, Sustainability
- YC partner: Jared Friedman
Founders
Jonas Gruetter — Founder/CEO
Former robotics researcher, published at ICRA. Ex-Gravis Robotics, Robotic Systems Lab, and Ursa Mining. Now building robots to solve fundamental societal problems.
Stanislaw Piasecki — Founder/CTO
Co-founder at Grip. Previously founding engineer at URSA Mining, building autonomous excavators with custom control circuits, RL simulators, and multi-sensor perception systems. Built autonomous interceptor drones at CDDS, autonomous race cars at AMZ and quadruped robotics at ANYbotics. MS in Computational Science & Engineering from ETH Zürich.
Source: Y Combinator · Retrieved 2026-11-02. Company information is self-reported on YC.