2x founder

David Khachaturov

Founder @ Egoist Machines (YC S26) | Bye-Fellow at St Catharine’s College | PhD, Computer Science

Founder

Egoist Machines· Summer 2026 🇬🇧 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

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2026Founder· Egoist Machines, Inc.

Founder · since 2021

Company

Egoist Machines, Inc.

Role

Founder

current

Stage

—

no public source

Raised

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no public source

Based

San Francisco, CA

current

Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

Source: LinkedIn work history

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Egoist Machines

User-owned memory and preferences that work across every AI app

Summer 2026

Experience

Career

Egoist Machines, Inc.
Founder
Founder · San Francisco, CA · 2026 – Present
2026
University of Cambridge
Computer Science Tripos Supervisor · Cambridge · 2021 – Present
2021
University of Cambridge
Research Intern · Cambridge, England, United Kingdom · 2021
2021
Frontier/1
Lead AI Security Researcher · Cambridge · 2026
2026
Qeios
Software Architect · 2025
2025
mazette!
Founder
Founder · 2021 – 2025
2021
Mercor Intelligence
Computer Science Intelligence Analyst · 2025
2025
OpenAI
Machine Learning Researcher · 2025
2025
Blue Education
Private Tutor · 2020 – 2021
2020
Seamless Capital
Intern · 2020
2020
IMC Trading
Software Development Intern · Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands · 2020
2020
Speechmatics
Machine Learning Intern · Cambridge, United Kingdom · 2019
2019

Bio

Founder at Egoist Machines (YC S26). BA/MA (Uni of Cambridge), MSc (Uni of Oxford), PhD (Uni of Cambridge) in Computer Science. Youngest-ever Fellow at St Catharine's College, Cambridge at 25. Previously ML Researcher at OpenAI (PaperBench), Lead AI Security Researcher at FrontierOne. Founded and scaled mazette! (game publisher, 10-title portfolio). Cambridge CS supervisor for 8+ courses, taught 160+ supervision groups and mentored 19 dissertations.