Through AI Study Camp,
students achieve real outcomes.

Why Students Come

Builder Frustration

I had ideas but couldn't build them myself.

Tired of waiting on devs to ship my vision.

I wanted to go from concept to prototype fast.

AI Literacy

I wanted to actually understand how LLMs work.

Felt like everyone was using AI but me.

Needed to separate hype from real capability.

Career Leverage

AI skills felt non-optional for my next role.

Wanted to stand out in a crowded job market.

Needed proof I could build with AI, not just talk about it.

Momentum & Accountability

I kept starting tutorials and never finishing.

Needed a community to push me forward.

Structure and deadlines help me actually learn.

What Students Achieve

Akshat Goenka

Akshat Goenka

Partner @ Moonfire Ventures, ex-Accel, ex-J.P. Morgan

Built an internal tool that uses GPT-4, Airtable, and Zapier to automatically compose and send personalized founder outreach messages.

LLM Fundamentals
Ali Jiwani

Ali Jiwani

Founder @ Rally (YC S20)

Built and shipped AI diary and AI therapist apps, and even ran google ads on them!

LLM Fundamentals
Amitav Chakravartty

Amitav Chakravartty

YC Alum, Built & Exited PropTech, Stealth

Started a new company after going through the program, applying AI to a real business problem.

LLM Fundamentals
Amy Liu

Amy Liu

Co-founder of Hotpot Studios, YC S20 alum

Pivoted from storyboarding to AI product photography; started fine-tuning their own models. This became a foundation for Amy's new company, Hotpot Studios — an AI-first agency that creates viral videos for brands.

LLM Fundamentals
Bala Raja

Bala Raja

Cofounder/CEO of Clip Health (YC S16), PhD in bio/chem engg

Built & shipped a v1 of FDA Intel, a semantic search + RAG interface for FDA.gov medtech guides.

LLM Fundamentals
Cassie Choi

Cassie Choi

Founder at Pair Team (YC S19), nurse innovator, founder coach

Built multiple AI tools for her coaching practice to help streamline operations. For fun, built an RV co-pilot app for her parents, so they don't miss out on fun things to do and can fix common RV issues while on the road.

LLM Fundamentals
David Samudio

David Samudio

CX Design Manager @ Banistmo

Learned the skillset to build his ideas. Learned the stack, got comfortable in the terminal, and built & shipped a product that real users are testing — an AI research tool "that gives you interview depth at survey scale."

Vibe Coding Foundations
Felipe Echandi

Felipe Echandi

Co-founder & CEO at Cuanto (YCW19)

From non-technical cofounder to contributing to production codebase and solving user tickets. Built a personal passion project app: Panama City Sidewalk Analyzer

Vibe Coding Foundations
Ilia Semenov

Ilia Semenov

Founder at Cloudthread (YC S21), ex-Lyft, ex-EA

Built a multi-stage, human-in-the-loop content/blog post generation pipeline for his finance-related blog.

LLM Fundamentals
Jenna Blaicher-Brown

Jenna Blaicher-Brown

WiseTech Global, Exited Founder (YC17)

Left enterprise, started a startup, and built v1 herself using what she learned in the program.

LLM Fundamentals
Jev Topunov

Jev Topunov

Co-founder at Gaming Union, Innovation Lab Specialist at Booking.com

Built and launched Elevate Talk, a role-play simulator that boosts your sales skills.

LLM Fundamentals
John Yoder

John Yoder

Co-Founder & CTO @ Constructable (YC S23)

Along with Molly Abbott, prototyped a RAG Q&A feature for Constructable's product, using vector embeddings to cluster and analyze thousands of construction documents.

LLM Fundamentals
Lior Grossman

Lior Grossman

Founder of Lifehack Labs, YC S20 alum

Built and launched two LLM-powered apps, AI gift advisor and AI shopping assistant.

LLM Fundamentals
Luis Pellerano

Luis Pellerano

Founder of Ruffo/Argovox (YC S22)

Built a sales & CS copilot in WhatsApp for their real estate agents.

LLM Fundamentals
Maokai Lin

Maokai Lin

Co-founder & CTO of Smarking (YC W15), PhD in applied math

Built a Chrome extension that blocks distractions on Twitter.

LLM Fundamentals
Michael Astreiko

Michael Astreiko

Founder/CEO at Synder (YC S21)

Integrated LLMs and LLM-powered tools into every department of his YC company, Synder, from product to dev to marketing.

LLM Fundamentals
Mike Sholler

Mike Sholler

Technical PM @ Avida

Created a Slack bot that acts as Mike's second brain for product management: follows him across threads, creates Linear tickets, generates PRDs, manages to-dos, sends him morning/evening/weekly summaries, and integrates with Notion and GitHub.

Vibe Coding Foundations
Molly Abbott

Molly Abbott

Co-Founder & CPO @ Constructable (YC S23)

Along with John Yoder, prototyped a RAG Q&A feature for Constructable's product, using vector embeddings to cluster and analyze thousands of construction documents.

LLM Fundamentals
Nathan Goldstein

Nathan Goldstein

Co-Founder & Head of Product @ Together (YC S19)

Prototyped two LLM-based features for Together: 1) personalized suggestions for mentors and mentees on what to talk about, and 2) automatic session agenda generation.

LLM Fundamentals
Nazli Danis

Nazli Danis

Co-founder & CEO, Paloma (YC 25)

Left Deel and joined YC, crediting the cohort with giving her the confidence and skills to make the leap.

LLM Fundamentals
Nicole Garcia Fischer

Nicole Garcia Fischer

Co-founder, AI Study Camp

Joined AI Study Camp as a student and then became co-founder, course creator and instructor. Launched Inspirations App as her final capstone project during the camp

Vibe Coding Foundations
Nik Kotov

Nik Kotov

CEO, Alderlake Capital Holdings | Forbes 30u30 & YC Alum

Built a couple mini-apps for himself: an app to remove chords and music notion from songs, blogs/articles-to-podcasts translator, etc. Noted that he now understands "the mystery of how LLMs work."

LLM Fundamentals
Olena Vozna

Olena Vozna

Co-founder at Alphie, ex Head of Product @ YouTeam (YC W18)

Built and shipped i1, a bot that creates custom vetting processes for hiring contract software devs.

LLM Fundamentals
Patrick Deem

Patrick Deem

Co-Founder and CFO of Voodoo Manufacturing (YC W17)

Built a personal focus/productivity tool that helps break down large unstructured problems into concrete actions. Reported feeling "much more comfortable with what AI can and can't do now and how to position myself for the future."

LLM Fundamentals
Peter Harrington

Peter Harrington

Co-founder & CTO at LexText AI, YC W12 alum

Built TravelMaster AI, a ChatGPT for planning your trips.

LLM Fundamentals
Sajag Agarwal

Sajag Agarwal

YC alum, Forbes 30 Under 30

Was non-technical, then learned Claude Code and is now contributing to production codebase and building own apps

Vibe Coding Foundations
Steven Syverud

Steven Syverud

Strategic PM @ Anthropic, ex-Coursera, YC W17 alum

Along with Mohith Julapalli, built a v1 of an AI executive assistant that could book meetings, reply to emails, manage calendar events, and handle other executive workflows.

LLM Fundamentals
Tejas Viswanath

Tejas Viswanath

Founder & CTO @ Chaldal (YC S15)

Built and launched an embeddings-based search for Chaldal's grocery delivery website; began working on fully automated customer support.

LLM Fundamentals
Vital Rozhevski

Vital Rozhevski

Co-founder, Numo.ai

Went from non-technical to creating his own Swift app, a personal operating system with Claude Code, automating his taxes, and more.

Vibe Coding Foundations
Yash Kothari

Yash Kothari

Founder @ Kindred Minds, YC S15 alum

Prototyped an AI executive coach Slack bot. This became a foundation for his new company, Kindred — a Slack-based AI agent that integrates with 1:1s, competencies, and more to help employees and managers write higher quality performance reviews.

LLM Fundamentals

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