David Tondreau

Co-founder @ Ladder (YC W25)

Co-founder

Maive· Winter 2025 San Francisco Bay Area

in LinkedIn 𝕏 @dtond_

2025Co-founder· Ladder

Founder · since 2025

Company

Ladder

Role

Co-Founder

current

Stage

—

no public source

Raised

—

no public source

Based

San Francisco Bay Area

current

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

Source: LinkedIn work history

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Maive

AI for Home Services

Winter 2025

Experience

Career

Ladder
Co-founder
Co-Founder · San Francisco Bay Area · 2025 – Present
2025
Dexterity, Inc.
Sr. Software Engineering Manager, Robotics · San Francisco Bay Area · 2023 – 2025
2023
Dexterity, Inc.
Software Engineering Manager, Robotics · San Francisco Bay Area · 2022 – 2023
2022
Dexterity, Inc.
Software Engineer, Robotics · San Francisco Bay Area · 2020 – 2022
2020
Berkeley Hybrid Robotics Lab
Graduate Student Researcher · Berkeley, California, United States · 2019 – 2020
2019
Rolls-Royce
Systems Engineer · Indianapolis, Indiana Area · 2017 – 2019
2017

Bio

David is the co-founder and CEO of Maive. He started his career as a manufacturing engineer at Rolls-Royce where he once uncovered quality issues due to missing paperwork that stopped production for a week. After obtaining a Masters in Engineering from UC Berkeley, David spent five years at Dexterity AI, a unicorn robotics startup. He began as a software engineer and ended as a senior manager leading product engineering. David holds 15 patents spanning robotics and aerospace engineering.