Calvin Chen

I'm working on Proximal a reserach lab for data, starting with code.

Our founding team includes early engineers and researchers from Cursor and Prime Intellect, and second-time exited founders. We're hiring!

We're growing at a rate that puts us in the fastest growing startups ever and are backed by top funds and angels from OpenAI, Anthropic, Thinking Machines, Google Deepmind, xAI, Meta Superintelligence, Cursor and Cognition.

I previously:

• Studied business and CS at USC before dropping out for Y-Combinator
• Trained a SOTA diffusion model for virtual try on
• Built an ecommerce logistics startup that I bootstrapped to $1.5M ARR and sold for $9m
• Built Fetchr, an agent that helped people shop for clothes online

If I'm not working, I read, write, build things, and meet other interesting people. If that's you, say hi.