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SID

AI research lab for retrieval

Y CombinatorSummer 2023ActiveB2BEngineering, Product and DesignArtificial IntelligenceInfrastructureAI

What they do

Problem

Organizations struggle to find and use relevant information across disparate data sources for accurate reasoning and decision-making.

Solution

SID trains AI models that can retrieve and reason over data from any source.

Who it's for

Developers and enterprises building AI applications that need retrieval and reasoning across diverse data sources.

Founders

Maximilian-David Rumpf
Founder

Max is the CEO of SID.ai. Previously, he was a researcher at ETH Zürich, where he worked on AI accelerator design with the professor who developed Google's TPU architecture. Max was awarded a German national excellence scholarship, awarded to 0.5% of German students.

Lotte Seifert
Founder

Lotte is determined to let people use their data for their own good. She holds a degree in CS from ETH Zürich and a degree in Economics from the University of St. Gallen.

Open roles 2

Research Intern (Summer 2026)
San Francisco, CA, US · Internship · $5K - $10K / monthly
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Research Engineer
San Francisco, CA, US · Full-time
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