Jonathan Maynard

Jonathan Maynard is the Founder of Knowlify, an artificial intelligence and educational technology startup currently based in San Francisco. The company develops a specialized machine learning platform that converts standard text into custom explainer videos, successfully generating over 75,000 unique videos during its initial month of operation. Under his executive leadership, Knowlify doubled its month-over-month revenue and secured $3 million in seed funding from institutional investors including 468 Capital before joining the Y Combinator Summer 2025 batch. Maynard officially transitioned to working full-time on the venture in January 2025, engineering an automated content creation system that produces visual pacing and narration comparable to the popular channel 3Blue1Brown. His current professional focus centers on leveraging his extensive academic background in physics and machine learning research to scale generative artificial intelligence applications across the broader educational technology sector.