Trevor Blackwell, Angel Investor

Trevor Blackwell was a Partner at Y Combinator for 15 years, helping launch and scale hundreds of startups. He also spent time as a researcher at OpenAI, contributing to early AI development, and previously founded Anybots Inc., a robotics company focused on telepresence. Earlier in his career, he held engineering roles at Yahoo and Viaweb, gaining deep experience in software and systems. His career reflects a consistent focus on entrepreneurship, frontier technologies, and supporting founders at the earliest stages. As an angel investor, his portfolio includes Adam, Volantis, Kind Humanoid, Array Labs, Atom, Stoke Space, Teleo, Standard Cyborg, Triplebyte, and Swapbox, highlighting his interest in startups innovating in robotics, AI, aerospace, and developer tools.