Vinay Konuru

Vinay Konuru is the Co-founder of Jeevy Fabrication, a Y Combinator-backed manufacturing startup producing welded assemblies for the aerospace and energy sectors. Prior to establishing the company in April 2025, he worked at Rondo Energy as a personal engineer to founder and Chief Innovation Officer John O'Donnell, focusing on thermal energy systems and power congestion modeling. Konuru earned an undergraduate degree in electrical and computer engineering from Princeton University in 2024, where his senior thesis examined the integration of thermal energy storage with direct air capture technology. During his academic tenure, he won the top prize at Princeton Research Day 2023 for developing a desktop carbon capture system and briefly pursued a master's degree in electrical engineering at Stanford University. His current focus centers on scaling critical infrastructure manufacturing to support the broader energy transition and advanced aerospace applications.