Stanislas Polu
About Stanislas Polu
Stanislas Polu is a co-founder of Dust, an enterprise platform for building and deploying AI agents on a company's internal data and tools. Dust was founded in 2022 with Gabriel Hubert and is based in Paris. Public sources describe Polu as the engineer and technical co-founder, and Gabriel Hubert as CEO.
Earlier, he co-founded TOTEM, a data analytics company, in 2011. Stripe acquired it in 2014. He then worked as a research engineer at OpenAI from 2019 to 2022. There he worked on AI reasoning and co-authored papers with Ilya Sutskever on formal mathematics and automated theorem proving. He left OpenAI in September 2022.
His X profile lists Stanford and Polytechnique among his alumni affiliations. LinkedIn lists Stanford, where he did a systems specialization from 2007 to 2009.
Polu invests as an individual angel, usually alongside institutional leads. Tracxn lists him as an angel investor in 4 startups. The three rounds below are the ones confirmed in public announcements. He is not known to have a public fund, and no check sizes or personal investment thesis have been published.
In December 2023 he joined the €3M seed round of Pimento, a French generative-AI startup that turns creative briefs into visual mood boards. Partech and Cygni Capital co-led that round.
In June 2026 he took part in SuperPlane's €2.28M pre-seed, which Credo Ventures led with First Momentum Ventures. SuperPlane builds an open-source control plane for engineers and AI agents to run production infrastructure.
In September 2026 he joined Opio's €4M seed, alongside Frst, Seedcamp and Global Founders Capital. Opio is a Paris-based startup, founded in 2025, that uses AI to automate financial due diligence for audit and transaction services teams.
The public record shows pre-seed and seed rounds in AI products. The sectors are creative tooling, developer and infrastructure tools, and AI for audit and finance professionals. The companies are in France and Serbia/US, and he joins rounds led by European funds. Several of these founders build agent-based or workflow software, which fits his work at Dust. Polu has not published his check size or a statement of what he looks for. Founders should ask him directly.
- Opio: AI platform that automates financial due diligence for audit and consulting firms; €4M seed, September 2026.
- SuperPlane: open-source, AI-first control plane for managing production infrastructure; €2.28M pre-seed, June 2026.
- Pimento: generative-AI tool that turns creative briefs into mood boards; €3M seed, December 2023.
- linkedin.com/in/spolu
- x.com/spolu?lang=en
- x.com/ycombinator/status/2080447515414192330
- home.mlops.community/public/videos/agents-and-the-dollar40m-bet-on-mul
- summify.io/discover/agents-work-dust-tt-with-stanislas-polu-U5wFQO
- tracxn.com/d/companies/dust/__WL3DGBylY_2PK478wWq02CN8h1CsgdX6Wv05s4tt
- techcrunch.com/2023/12/07/pimento-turns-creative-briefs-into-visual-mo
- nordic9.com/news/pimento-in-a-3-million-seed-round-co-led-by-partech-a
Investing activity
Stanislas Polu appears in 2 AI deals tracked by the Lounge deals desk. The rounds are mostly Seed and Pre-seed, with a median round size of $5M. The most recent are Opio (Seed, €4M, Sep 2026) and SuperPlane (Pre-seed, €2.28M, Jun 2026).
Stanislas Polu most often invests alongside Arthur Waller, Frst, GFC and Seedcamp, and the companies they back on Lounge are mostly in AI.
Deals
Frequently asked questions about Stanislas Polu
Who is Stanislas Polu?
He is a co-founder of Dust, an enterprise AI agent platform in Paris. He previously co-founded TOTEM, which Stripe acquired in 2014, and was a research engineer at OpenAI from 2019 to 2022.
What AI startups has Stanislas Polu invested in?
Public announcements name Pimento (seed, December 2023), SuperPlane (pre-seed, June 2026) and Opio (seed, September 2026). He joined each as an angel alongside institutional investors.
What stage does Stanislas Polu invest in?
His confirmed angel investments are in pre-seed and seed rounds. In each case he joined a round led by a venture firm.
What is Stanislas Polu's check size?
It is not public. No source gives his check size, so ask him directly.
How can founders contact Stanislas Polu?
He is on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/spolu and on X as @spolu, and his personal site is spolu.sh. Founders with a relevant AI or developer-tools product can reach out there.
Does Stanislas Polu back developer tools and AI infrastructure?
He invested in SuperPlane, an open-source platform for running production infrastructure with AI agents. He also built Dust, which provides infrastructure for companies to deploy AI agents.
Is Stanislas Polu an angel investor?
Yes. Stanislas Polu invests personally as an angel.
What AI companies has Stanislas Polu invested in?
Stanislas Polu's AI investments include Opio and SuperPlane. The 2 rounds on Lounge are listed on this page with amounts, dates and co-investors.
What stage does Stanislas Polu invest at?
In the rounds tracked on Lounge, Stanislas Polu has invested at Seed and Pre-seed, with a median round of $5M.
Who does Stanislas Polu co-invest with?
Stanislas Polu's most frequent co-investors on Lounge are Arthur Waller (1 deal), Frst (1 deal), GFC (1 deal), Seedcamp (1 deal) and Credo Ventures (1 deal).