Cofounder of Midship AI (acq by Optro)
San Francisco
Joined April 2012
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Super relevant. Especially with all the saturated benchmarks. Congrats Rez,
Max and Rex
Introducing MalwareBench: the first end-to-end, cross-platform benchmark on malware reverse engineering.
Most RE benchmarks are saturated, but not MalwareBench. GPT-6.1 Sol leads with 4.42%. A typical run takes several hours and hundreds of millions of tokens.
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Introducing Project Glasswing: an urgent initiative to help secure the world’s most critical software.
It’s powered by our newest frontier model, Claude Mythos Preview, which can find software vulnerabilities better than all but the most skilled humans.
anthropic.com/glasswing
Reddit case study on their experience with Midship!
reddit.com/r/RedditEng/comme…
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Everyone says VCs don't work over the holidays, but this is the second year in a row I've wired an investment on Christmas Eve (deepest apologies to my CFO...) and I'm so excited to announce that we led Midship's $4.15M seed round!
Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance affects every public company, yet testing remains painfully slow, manual, and spread across too many teams. When we met @_kietay, @IyerAahel, and @max_maio we knew they were the right team to fix it. They've lived this pain firsthand as control owners at Instacart, PayPal, and Faire, and their customer obsession and product chops blew us away.
Midship is building AI agents that automate the full SOX testing lifecycle: evidence collection, control testing, and workpaper generation. They're already live with leading public companies who rave about the product. We are so proud to be backing this team alongside our friends at @seguinventures and @ycombinator.
The Midship team is growing fast: check out midship.ai/careers & join us!!
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Midship is the end-to-end platform for automating SOX testing.
Today, audit teams either spend thousands of hours manually testing controls, or outsource the work to consultants. Both paths are slow, painful, and expensive.
Midship’s AI agents perform tests and prepare workpapers in minutes. Workpapers export into Excel, in the format external auditors expect.
Congrats on the launch @max_maio, @_kietay, and @IyerAahel!
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Applications for the YC Fall 2025 batch are now open!
Apply by August 4: ycombinator.com/apply
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LLMs are being deployed in high-stakes environments—and the potential impact of failure is colossal. A jailbroken AI could leak your customer data, financial records, or enable catastrophically harmful actions. At @gen_analysis we have compiled the definitive guide to understand and defend against these threats-- The LLM Jailbreak Cookbook.
Here is an Overview:
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This is my company!! With AI we will significantly reduce corporate fraud
Midship (@MidshipInc) enables financial auditors to beat the Big 4.
Auditors spend days sifting through PDF documents— matching invoices to samples, checking dates, reconciling balances.
Midship automates these tasks with AI agents that understand your team’s methodology.
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Jailbroken: Read our latest report on how GPT 4 hallucinates on legal questions!
generalanalysis.com/blog/leg…
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Now is the best time in history to be a builder.
We are entering a golden age of building. Let’s use it to build things to make the country better!
🧵Here are some of the ideas we think will be especially cool to build in this golden age: ycombinator.com/rfs-build
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Midship (YC S24) extracts information from complex documents and inputs it directly into your preferred spreadsheets.
ycombinator.com/launches/LYP…
Congrats on the launch, @_kietay, @max_maio, and @IyerAahel!
