ChronosNadav Shanun
Co-founder and CEO of Chronos, based in San Francisco.
Chronos grew out of an idea Nadav has chased for years: the digital twin. His earlier company, Geome, built an AI model of how a person actually works — learning from what happened on their screen — to create a digital clone of an employee. Chronos points that same thesis at go-to-market: rather than clone a person, it clones a company’s outbound motion — its ideal customer profile, its voice, and its follow-up discipline — and runs it autonomously. Founded in 2026, Chronos is now used by over 3,000 companies, with a mission to make companies conscious: automating a company’s human-led work with AI, starting with go-to-market.
Before Chronos
Nadav is an engineer by training, and his background runs through some of the most demanding engineering environments there are. Before Chronos he worked across aerospace, defense, and national-security systems, and founded and exited an earlier company.
- NASA (Kennedy Space Center) — electrical & robotics engineer: haptic astronaut-training glove systems with sensory feedback, microgravity simulations, and a robotic haptic hand built from scratch (embedded systems, ROS, SolidWorks).
- Central Intelligence Agency — physicist working on satellite and ground-control systems (details as clearance permits).
- U.S. Department of Defense — nuclear & electrical engineer: radiation-survivable microelectronics for defense systems, with atomic-scale and single-event-effect simulation.
- Weel (YC S24) — hardware & firmware CTO for a MagSafe-compatible wireless car charger (ESP32-S3 firmware, power electronics).
- Earlier, he co-founded and exited a startup before turning the digital-twin idea into Chronos.
He holds an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance.
He built Chronos as part of Entrepreneurs First (F25) and The Residency, and works the way he expects the product to: relentless contact with real customers — a sales call every thirty minutes rather than building in isolation. He reads a lot of founder biographies and keeps coming back to the two traits they share: raw ambition and a pure love of figuring things out.
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