Dillon Erb

Dillon Erb is the CEO and co-founder of Autonomous Technologies Group, an artificial intelligence laboratory based in New York City. He previously served as the CEO and co-founder of Paperspace, a cloud computing and machine learning platform that he successfully guided through the Y Combinator Winter 2015 batch before its $111 million acquisition by DigitalOcean in July 2023. Erb launched his current venture in 2025 alongside co-founder Daniel Kobran, subsequently securing $15 million in early seed funding in January 2026 from prominent investors including Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan and BoxGroup. The eight-employee company develops frontier reasoning systems for global financial markets, primarily through an automated financial advisor operating with zero percent advisory fees. His professional career focuses on building foundational cloud infrastructure and deploying advanced artificial intelligence applications within the broader financial technology sector.