Lucas Amlicke is Co-Founder and CTO at Synphony, a Y Combinator-backed robotics startup building robots and software for agricultural and industrial applications.

Lucas studied Computer Science (Bachelor of Engineering) at Santa Clara University, where he conducted research at the SCU IoT Research Lab spanning robotics, IoT devices, and neuromorphic computing.

Lucas is a serial hackathon competitor with 4 individual hackathon wins, and Synphony's team has collectively won over 15 hackathons, including taking home 4 Jensen-signed GPUs.

Prior to Synphony, Lucas worked as a Software Engineer at FirmPilot, an AI marketing platform, and led engineering at RYE Inc., with additional research roles in IoT security at Santa Clara University.

Synphony has demonstrated its GEN-0 system autonomously packing phones on Universal Robots industrial arms at NVIDIA GTC, and has expanded into strawberry picking robots targeting a $3B California farming industry with a growing outdoor data moat.