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

What they're building

Predictive maintenance for power infrastructure.

Batch
Y Combinator Fall 2026
Industry
Industrials
Team size
3
Based
Baltimore, MD, USA

Founders

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Talos on the record

What they shipped

  • From its YC profile: At Talos, we are building better, more modern predictive maintenance for the power industry with a focus on large transformers. Our devices continuously monitor critical power equipment and detect problems early on using anomaly-detection models. For each fault, we provide detailed analyses of the problem, exactly where and why it happened, as well as next steps teams should take. (source)
  • Its own site describes it as: "Talos continuously monitors critical power equipment, detects meaningful changes in behavior, and tells teams where to look before a failure becomes an outage." (source)

Who is behind it

  • Amitav Kohli, Founder/CEO: Founder at Talos. Currently studying Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon, where he designs power systems for CMU's flagship disaster response snake robots in the Biorobotics Lab. Previously interned at Constellation Energy working on power engineering and predictive maintenance systems. (source)
  • Kevin Hwang, Founder/CTO: Founder at Talos. Undergraduate researcher at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, designing transformer-based foundation models for physiological waveforms using 100+ TB of ICU data. Published 3 papers (100+ citations, NeurIPS Workshop) on few-shot GPT-4 prompting for question generation. BS Computer Science & Applied Math at Johns Hopkins. (source)
  • Himani Musku, Founder/COO: Founder at Talos. Studying CS at Carnegie Mellon. Previously conducted AI research with MIT Lincoln Laboratory (first-author IEEE paper), UChicago, and Northwestern. (source)

Timeline

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

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