Andy Li

About

I was born in Beijing and moved to Long Island, NY, when I was 13. I spent my high school years coding and building robots before going to UIUC for a dual degree in mechanical engineering and economics. After my freshman year, I took a gap year to work at Apple. Then I founded Respan, dropped out, and joined the YC W24 batch. I told my mom I'm taking a gap year, but obviously I'm not going back.

Work

CEO & Interim CTO of Respan. We're building the infrastructure to route, observe, and improve AI agents and raised $5M in seed funding from Google's AI fund Gradient, Y Combinator, and other amazing investors.
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Designed parts for AirPods 4s and a next-gen model at Apple.
Worked on coffee-making robots at Yummy Future (YC S19).

Angel investments

Unannounced - AI that creates and runs ads end to end
Unannounced - AI agents making local government more efficient
Unannounced - the insurance layer for AI
Stealth - social network for people and agents