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Maive

Winter 2025 · Active

AI for Home Services

Location: San Francisco, US

Founded: 2025

Team size: 2

About

Maive is an AI automation platform for contractors providing home services

Founders

  • David TondreauFounder

    David is the co-founder and CEO of Maive. He started his career as a manufacturing engineer at Rolls-Royce where he once uncovered quality issues due to missing paperwork that stopped production for a week. After obtaining a Masters in Engineering from UC Berkeley, David spent five years at Dexterity AI, a unicorn robotics startup. He began as a software engineer and ended as a senior manager leading product engineering. David holds 15 patents spanning robotics and aerospace engineering.

  • Will CrayFounder

    Will is the co-founder and CTO of Maive. Previously, Will was the Machine Learning and Computer Vision tech lead at Dexterity, a unicorn robotics company. Before Dexterity, Will founded his own computer vision and machine learning startup while pursuing a Master’s in Machine Learning at UT Austin. He started his career at Intel as a software engineer on their autonomous driving platform. At 13, Will founded a business repairing broken Xbox 360’s and selling them on eBay.