Maingen

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About Maingen

YC company profile

Simulating Agents Running Industrial Companies

Maingen builds simulations for industrial operations ($5 trillion slice of the US economy) so frontier labs can train models that actually run power plants, factories, and datacenters.

YC batch: Summer 2026
Founded: 2026
Team size: 2
Location: San Francisco
Country: US
Status: Active
Industry: Industrials
Stage: Early
Tags: B2B, Energy, Big Data, AI
YC partner: Harshita Arora

Founders

Phillip Yan — Founder/CEO

CEO at Maingen (S26). Prev. 0x, power trading, Scale AI, Coinbase (YC S12).
Shipped exchange infra powering $150M+ TPV

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David Yang — Founder/CTO

CTO of Maingen (S26). Prev. Idler (S25), Scale AI, Reticular (F24), and Amazon.
Cited by Anthropic for ICLR2025 mech-interp paper.