Gazetteer SF covered the Yale Hacker House’s first season — a two-apartment Nob Hill house on Pine Street where roughly 15 Yale undergrads spent the summer going all-in on their startups. Seven companies operated out of the house; four of them added up to a collective $17M raise, at an estimated $200M+ combined valuation.
Daemo AI is part of the hacker-house network. The piece covers our ~$1.2M raise this month, alongside other recent Yale founders in SF and a new side project I’m tinkering with to connect Yalies in the scene: “Yinder”.
“The Yale Hacker House network also includes recent alums like Srikar Godilla, who graduated in 2024, and Jimmy Carter, who graduated in May. They co-founded Daemo AI, a B2B software company that this month raised just under $1.2 million.”
“[…] Carter [is] even tinkering with a new app to connect Yalies in the scene, which he’s calling ‘Yinder.’”
— Gazetteer SF, July 30, 2026
The article’s lede photo—Instacart founder Max Mullen visiting the hacker house—was shot and credited to me: “Photo: Jimmy Carter.”
Article headline & lede photo (by Jimmy Carter) featuring Instacart founder Max Mullen visiting the Yale Hacker House, as published on Gazetteer SF, July 30, 2026. Click to enlarge.