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Enact launch: what they're building and where to launch next

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What they're building

Real-world RL environments for robotics models

Batch
Y Combinator Summer 2026
Industry
Industrials
Team size
2
Based
San Francisco, CA, USA

Founders

enact.company ↗

See their funding details ↗

Enact on the record

What they shipped

  • From its YC profile: Enact creates the physical environments to benchmark and hill climb robotics models on high-value tasks. We find where robots fail, and fix them with our in-house training loop. (source)
  • Its own site describes it as: "The post-training layer for physical AI." (source)

Who is behind it

  • James Stevens, Founder/CEO: Founder & CEO @ Enact. Previously an early engineer at a startup scaling from zero to $1.5B AUM. Stanford MS&E. (source)
  • Govind Chada, Founder/CTO: Founder at Enact. Previously: Robotics research in Chelsea Finn’s IRIS Lab at Stanford AI Lab, Meta Reality Labs. (source)

Timeline

  1. 2026: founded, per its YC profile. (source)

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