GIANLUCA BENCOMO

Gianluca Bencomo is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Efference, a robotics technology startup based in San Francisco, California. The company, which develops stereo robotic cameras that process vision as software, is currently participating in the Y Combinator Fall 2025 batch and is actively taking pre-orders for a scheduled delivery in March 2025. Prior to establishing Efference, Bencomo served as President and Co-Founder of Ludus Labs, a venture backed by Y Combinator during its Summer 2025 cycle. His academic and professional research experience includes tenures as a Researcher at Princeton University and Harvard Medical School, alongside an Intern Scientist position at NASA. Holding advanced doctorate and master's degrees from leading universities, Bencomo focuses his current work on advancing computer vision and artificial intelligence to create camera systems that mimic human visual processing for robotic applications.