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7/2/2026

These Founders Skipped Graduation To Be Here
Short summary
Two Ontario-based founders, James Yang and Anish Paleja, skipped high school graduation to join Founders Inc.'s Off Season II accelerator in San Francisco. They founded Brevitas, focused on optimizing token efficiency for multi-agent AI systems to reduce operational costs. Their intensive hackathon participation—36+ events in the past year—has driven rapid progress, with six months of estimated advancement in just six days at the accelerator.
- •Young founders (18) skipped graduation to attend startup accelerator in San Francisco
- •Founded Brevitas to optimize token efficiency and reduce costs for multi-agent AI systems
- •Driven by intensive hackathon participation (36+ in the past year)
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