Jochen Madler is Co-founder and CEO of Sitefire, a Y Combinator Winter 2026 startup building software for brand visibility in AI-driven search. His background includes finance, management and technology, reinforcement learning, optimization, and energy-systems research.
Jochen Madler is Co-founder and CEO of Sitefire, a Y Combinator Winter 2026 startup building software for brand visibility in AI-driven search. His background includes finance, management and technology, reinforcement learning, optimization, and energy-systems research.
Career
Jochen Madler studied at Technical University of Munich (M.Sc. Finance and Information Management, M.Sc. Management and Technology, and B.Sc. Management and Technology), Stanford University (Visiting student researcher in reinforcement learning and optimization), and Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Exchange semester).