# Maingen

[Maingen on Hacklab](https://hacklab.so/org/maingen)

Startup · 2 people on Hacklab

## Links

- [Website](https://www.maingen.com/)
- [Y Combinator](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/maingen)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/maingen)

## About

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## 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

[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/pyan/) · [X](https://x.com/PhillipYan)

### 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.

[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-yang-ai/) · [X](https://x.com/djyang1)

[Source: Y Combinator](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/maingen) · Retrieved 2026-11-02. Company information is self-reported on YC.

## Current staff

- [David Yang](https://hacklab.so/david-yang) — Founder/CTO (Present)
- [Phillip Yan](https://hacklab.so/phillip-yan) — Founder/CEO (Present)