Anya Trofimova is the Co-Founder and COO of PRINCEPS, a Y Combinator-backed company building the first purpose-built insurance and risk infrastructure for the trillion-dollar compute buildout, underwriting SLA, GPU residual value, and outage risk.

Anya studied History and Politics at St. John's College, University of Oxford, graduating with Distinction and earning the prestigious Casberd Academic Scholarship.

A formidable public intellectual, Anya served as Vice President (Librarian) of the Oxford Union, overseeing high-profile speaker events and leading a committee of 50+ members, and was featured on Oxford's BNOC list as a standout competitive debater.

At just 21, Anya pitched live at London Tech Week, winning from a prize pool of 1.7M, only six weeks after PRINCEPS made its first code commit, a milestone that signaled the company's rapid early momentum.

PRINCEPS, part of Y Combinator's Summer 2026 batch, is building the live benchmark for compute risk that lenders, insurers, and exchanges use to finance and underwrite the infrastructure powering the Intelligence Age.