Stephan Koenigstorfer

Stephan Koenigstorfer is the Founder of Lightberry, an early-stage robotics software startup based in San Francisco, California. Established in 2025 with an initial three-person team, the enterprise develops specialized artificial intelligence systems designed to make consumer and commercial robots emotionally intelligent, socially aware, and fully autonomous. Lightberry participated in the highly competitive Y Combinator Fall 2025 accelerator batch and subsequently secured early-stage financial backing from prominent institutional investors, including an exclusive a16z Scout fund. In addition to these venture capital entities, the startup has attracted strategic investment from individual operators and engineers affiliated with major technology corporations such as NVIDIA, Meta, and Google. As the principal executive of the firm, Koenigstorfer currently focuses on advancing the commercial viability of human-robot interaction through the continuous development of sophisticated voice artificial intelligence and proprietary autonomy software.