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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.

Tracy Young

CEO Plangrid (YC S12)

Founder and CEO Plangrid. Acquired by Adobe for $875 million. Raised ~$50M in venture funding.

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.

Adam Goldstein

CEO Hipmunk (YC S10)

Raised over $50 million in venture capital for Hipmunk before acquisition. Graduated MIT with degrees in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering.

Michael Karnjanaprakorn

Founder/Chairman Skillshare

Helped grow Skillshare to 5M+ members, $50M+ raised, and 20K+ classes. Previously, led product at Hot Potato (acquired by Facebook) and was an early employee at Behance (acquired by Adobe).

Newsha Ghaeli

Biobot (YC W18)

President & Co-founder Biobot Analytics. Lead MIT Senseable City Lab. WEF Global Shaper. Waterloo alum. Working on the future of cities.

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.

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.

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.

Grace Garey

Watsi (YC W13)

Cofounder at Watsi

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.

Michelle Sun

CEO First Code Academy

Founder and CEO of First Code Academy. International speaker. Forbes 30 under 30.

Dylan Enright

Wefunder (YC W13)

Founding Partner at Wefunder leading investment in 200+ companies. Started education startup Rightside to support youth arts ed. Utah and NYC raised.

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.

Lisa Q. Fetterman

CEO Nomiku (YC W15)

CEO and co-founder of Nomiku. Forbes 30 under 30. Zagat 30 under 30. White House Honored Maker.

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.