Elad Perlman

Elad is Co-Founder at Axiomat, a Y Combinator Fall 2026 (YC F26) startup working at the intersection of AI and scientific reasoning.
Elad studied Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Toronto, graduating with a 3.9/4.0 GPA. He gained hands-on engineering experience as a software developer at JANA and as a software engineer and intern at Survalent.
Elad is a full stack engineer skilled in C#, C, Python, React and ASP.NET Core, with a stated passion for machine learning that blends his math and computer science training.
Elad previously co-founded Waygo, where he served as Co-Founder and CEO while studying Machine Intelligence Engineering at the University of Toronto. He now builds Axiomat alongside a Toronto-rooted team in the Y Combinator network.
Axiomat's acceptance into Y Combinator's F26 batch places the company among a highly selective group of early-stage startups. The team draws on collaborations across the University of Toronto, the Vector Institute and the Arc Institute.