The Team | The 47 Founders Behind the Funds

Nick Tommarello

CEO Wefunder (YC W13)

Founder & CEO at Wefunder. Reformed MBA that picked up some coding and design skills. Learned about securities laws after spending $1M+ too.

Stefan Seltz-Axmacher

CEO Starsky Robotics (YC S16)

Starsky Robotics, Forbes 30 Under 30. Y-Combinator S16.

Laks Srini

CTO Zenefits (YC W13)

Founded and grew Zenefits to $2 billion valuation. Raised over $500 million. Now starting ZeroDown.

Daniel Ha

CEO Disqus (YC S07)

Co-founder and CEO of Disqus (YC S07). Grew to over $20 million of revenues and 75+ employees before acquisition.

Shruti Shah

Moveloot (YC W14)

Born in India and moved to America when 11 months old. Joined Teach for America in Baltimore, then moved to Silicon Valley to start Moveloot.

Chris Smoak

Atrium (YC W18)

Co-founder & CTO Atrium (raised $65M). Y Combinator W06 & W16. Worked at Amazon, Nvidia, Microsoft. Studied at Carnegie Mellon University.

Jahanzeb Sherwani

Screenhero - acq by Slack. (YC W13)

CEO of Screenhero (acq. by Slack). At Slack, added voice, video and screen sharing. PhD at Carnegie Mellon: voice applications for low-literate users.

Mahbod Moghadam

Genius & Everipedia (YC S11)

Cofounder of Everipedia (raised $30M+ to date), previously cofounder of Genius (aka "Rap Genius") (raised $70M in funding). Graduated from Stanford Law School and Yale University.

Antony Evans

Taxa (YC S14)

Founder and CEO of TAXA which provides genetic engineering of plants as a service. Previously raised $484k on Kickstarter to make Glowing Plants. MBA from INSEAD

Cindy Wu

Experiment (YC W13)

Experiment is a crowdfunding platform for scientific research. I also drink beer and do science.

Colin Barceloux

Techmate (YC S16)

Founder of Techmate which provided on demand tech support. Previously founded BookRenter.com (raised $60M+ and $100M+ revenue) that invented online textbook rentals and Axius acquired).

Paul Sawaya

Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer at Human Interest.

Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer at Human Interest. We're looking for great people: humaninterest.com/careers

Edward Damiano

CEO Beta Bionics

Invented bionic pancreas. Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Boston University. Ph.D., Applied Mechanics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Robert Attorri

Light Table & Eve (YC S12)

Cofounder @ Light Table and Eve. Molecular & cellular biologist turned dev tools devotee.

Wen Sang

CEO Smarking (YC W15)

Holds an PhD in Mechanical Engineering from MIT.

Sohail Prasad

CEO Equidate

Founder, CEO @Equidate. @YCombinator alum. Once: PM @Zynga, @hiptype, @Google, @CarnegieMellon, @Chartboost. Investor @Coin, @Zenefits.

Travis Deyle

CEO Cobalt Robotics (YC W13)

MIT Tech Review "35 Under 35" Award Winner (MIT TR35). PhD in Robotics & RFID. Formerly at Google[x] Life Sciences (now Verily). Currently, founder & CEO of Cobalt Robotics.

Ryan Witt

Head, StartX Med

healthcare, startups, investments, cancer, community building, public policy

Tim Suzman

Fearless (YC S11)

Founder of Fearless. YC alum (S11)

Brent Goldman

CTO Standard Treasury (YC S13)

Early engineer at Facebook. Founder and CTO Standard Treasury (YC S13). Now Senior Engineering Manager, Self-Driving at Uber.

Lev Popov

Rover (acq. Lyft) YC W13

Founder ShortCircuit • Worked at @Facebook (Mobile, Location), @Google (Maps) • Studied at @Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Karthik Balakrishnan

CTO of Coin (YC W13)

PhD from Stanford in Aeronautics and Astronautics. Cofounder and CTO of Coin (YC W13), acquired by Fitbit. Now at Airbus A^3. Worked at NASA Ames Research Center.

Tanmayi Sai

Product @ Zynga, currently working on launching a new game.

Shawn Tsao

Caviar (YC S11)

Co-founder of Caviar (acq. by Square). Founding Partner Beluga Capital, The Halal Guys, and Umai Hospitality.

Samvit Ramadurgam

Equidate (YC S12)

Founder at Equidate. Founding Partner at S2 Capital. Previously Co-Founder at Streem (Acquired by Box) Angel in 20+ Companies. Formerly: Asana, Berkeley EECS

Michael Witz

CEO Redemption Games (YC S14)

Co-founder and CEO of @Redemption Games Founder @Mob Science, which was acquired by @SGN where I built Cookie Jam, Top 10 Mobile Game. Y Combinator Alum.

Greg Belote

CTO Wefunder (YC W13)

All-around lover of software and startups. Big fan of JFDI and getting stuff done.

Drew Tulchin

CFO Meow Wolf

VP, Investments & Capital at Meow Wolf (current valuation ~$100M). Previously, founded UpSpring.

Chiu Chau

CTO Opentrons (YC W16)

Engineer by training. Several Biotech startup in Blood banking, Life Science. Co-founder of Opentrons. Expert in Hardware, Sourcing.

James Richards

Co-founder & CEO, Teleborder.

Nicky Goulimis

Steven Hsiao

SpoonRocket (YC S13)

Rishi Taparia

Siri Srinivas

Chris Maddox

Startup advisor, founder, writer, philosopher, engineer

Daniel Ha

CEO Disqus (YC S07)

Co-founder and CEO of Disqus (YC S07). Grew to over $20 million of revenues and 75+ employees before acquisition.

Ricky Yean

Co-founder of UpbeatPR

I am Co-Founder and CEO of UpbeatPR.com, where we offer PR on demand. Hundreds of businesses use Upbeat to help handle their media outreach. We make it simple to go from idea to pitch to coverage in l

James Li

Co-Founder of Mighty Health (YC S19). Previously founded Encore (500 Startups B14, acq.by Meltwater) and wrote speeches at White House.

Leonardo Ferreira

Molecular Immunologist

Molecular immunologist. Human genome engineer. Deconstructing the immune system to achieve tolerance in type 1 diabetes and transplantation.

Sasha Targ

MD-PhD Student at UCSF

SF Bay Area-based MD-PhD student in bioinformatics and human/medical genetics @UCSF, MIT '09-'12 with background in immunology and community health. I am excited about mathematical biology, functional