Malcolm Wengel

Malcolm is Co-Founder and COO at Stitch Labs, a Y Combinator F26 company building reinforcement learning environments from real company data.
Malcolm studied Finance, Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and was a nationally ranked junior tennis player in Arkansas. He co-founded ARCodeKids while still in high school and was named a 2022 Bank of America Student Leader.
Malcolm is a serial founder who served as an officer of the Wharton Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Club. He is also an Explorers Club member who planned a Mount Kilimanjaro expedition with his father.
At Stitch Labs, Malcolm leads operations for a small team of three backed by Y Combinator. The company is based in San Francisco and serves the AI research and frontier lab market.
Stitch is part of the fast-growing market for reinforcement learning environments, where AI developers train models on simulated versions of real-world software. Its YC F26 selection places Malcolm among a new generation of student-turned-founders building AI infrastructure.