Calvin Chen
Co-founder
Research lab building data and environments for coding agents
Proximal is a research and engineering lab focused on training data and reinforcement-learning environments for autonomous coding agents. It builds synthetic data pipelines, long-horizon coding benchmarks such as FrontierSWE, and infrastructure for large-scale agent runs. Backed by General Catalyst; team includes co-founders Calvin Chen and Justus Mattern.
Co-founder
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