Named investors include Y Combinator.[1][3][14]

Lukas Petersson, Co-founder and CEO[3][9][14][18][16]

Axel Backlund, Co-founder[3][9][14][18][16]

Emil Fröberg, Co-founder, formerly CEO[3][9][14][18]

Axel Wennström, Member of Technical Staff, AI safety[3][9][16][18]

Anthropic · anthropic.com · Named together in the same market map: Andon Labs ran Project Vend inside Anthropic's San Francisco office, helped Anthropic conduct alignment testing of Claude Mythos Preview, and Andon Labs' own evaluations are used to challenge Anthropic's alignment claims...[1][2][9]

OpenAI · openai.com · Same buyer and same job to be done: Andon Labs built a digital clone of its real-world vending machine so OpenAI could test GPT-red against thousands of exploits in parallel, and Andon Labs benchmarks OpenAI models on Vending-Bench and Drone-Bench.[9][12]

Google DeepMind · deepmind.google · Named together in a market map: Andon Labs is collaborating with Google DeepMind on a research project to better understand how current agents behave, and Andon Labs benchmarks Gemini models in its live businesses.[17][9]

xAI · x.ai · Named together in a market map: Andon Labs presented Vending-Bench results with the xAI team during the Grok 4 livestream and delivered a vending machine to xAI's offices.[11][13][15]

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