David Mlcoch
founder & ceo @ asteroid (YC W25) - redefining work through browser AI automation
United Kingdom
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder and CEO
2024 - Current
Mission critical browser AI agents - http://asteroid.ai/ Closing the gap between the fancy AI demos and real world entreprise deployments.
Founder (W24-defensive/acceleration)
2024 - 2024
Entrepreneur First is the world’s leading talent investor, backed by top founders including Patrick and John Collison, Reid Hoffman, or Tom Blomfield. EF brings together people with extraordinary futures to develop their most ambitious ideas and raise money from top global investors. The startups cofounded in EF programs are now worth over $10B. I'm part of the defensive acceleration program: https://www.joinef.com/posts/introducing-def-acc-at-ef/
Co-Founder and CTO
2024 - 2024
At Trident we build AI agents to fight scams and fraud.
Machine Learning Engineer
2022 - 2023
As a member of the research defense team, I developed and applied state-of-the-art computer vision and time-series modelling algorithms on near-real-time satellite radar and camera images. Applications ranged from economic nowcasting, climate change monitoring to defense & intelligence.
Lecturer
2022 - 2023
Popularizing and teaching Artificial Intelligence.
Course Instructor
2021 - 2022
Elements of AI instructor
Galileo Services Intern
2021 - 2021
Created a near real-time satellite status alert system. Implemented parts of a satellite performance monitoring service and supported the Galileo service engineering activities and monitoring of the satellites performance.
Automation Intern
2020 - 2021
Automated complex finance and accounting processes.
IQVIA provides analytics, compliance, and management solutions to the life sciences industry.
Raised $1,500,000,000.00 from TPG, CPP Investment Board Europe and Bain Capital.
Research Intern
2019 - 2021
Intelligent Data Analysis Lab - Created optimization models for real time sport betting.
Contract Software Developer
2018 - 2019
Created web applications for the database management and reporting to the Czech National Bank for the ING Bank finance department. Developed a central data warehouse support program for Československá obchodní banka, a.s.
Education
Master's degree with Distinction
2021 - 2022
Bachelor's degree with Distinction
2017 - 2021
Electrical and Electronics Engineering
2019 - 2020
International Exchange Program
2019 - 2019