Sydney Katz

Co-Founder & CTO at Valgo | Stanford Aero/Astro PhD

Co-founder

Valgo· Winter 2026 San Francisco Bay Area

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2026Lecturer· Stanford University

Founder · since 2025

Company

Stanford University

Role

Lecturer

current

Stage

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Raised

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no public source

Based

Stanford, California, United States

current

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

Source: LinkedIn work history

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Valgo

Insurance risk layer for physical AI

Winter 2026

Experience

Career

Stanford University
Lecturer · Stanford, California, United States · 2026 – Present
2026
Valgo
Co-founder
Co-Founder and CTO · 2025 – Present
2025
Stanford Intelligent Systems Laboratory
Postdoctoral Researcher · Stanford, California, United States · 2023 – 2025
2023
Stanford Intelligent Systems Laboratory
Graduate Research Assistant · Stanford, CA · 2018 – 2023
2018
Reliable Robotics Corporation
GNC Intern · 2022
2022
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Summer Research Intern · Lexington, MA · 2018
2018
Washington University in St. Louis
Residential Peer Mentor · Greater St. Louis · 2015 – 2018
2015
Washington University in St. Louis
Research Assistant · Greater St. Louis · 2014 – 2016
2014
WOOTA, LLC
Chief Technology Officer · St. Louis, MO · 2014 – 2018
2014
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Summer Intern · Lexington, MA · 2017
2017
Infoscitex Corporation
Operations Analyst Intern · Greater St. Louis · 2017
2017
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Summer Intern · Laurel, Maryland · 2016
2016
NASA Glenn Research Center
LERCIP Intern · Greater Cleveland · 2015
2015
NASA Glenn Research Center
LERCIP Intern · Greater Cleveland · 2014
2014
NASA Glenn Research Center
Summer Intern · Greater Cleveland · 2013
2013

Bio

Stanford Aero/Astro PhD with thesis on safe machine learning. Author of "Algorithms for Validation" textbook. Lecturer for "Validation of Safety-Critical Systems" course at Stanford. Industry experience at Reliable Robotics, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, and NASA.