# Jacqueline Cheong

> Jacqueline Cheong is the co-founder and CEO of Artie, a San Francisco data infrastructure company that streams changes from production databases into warehouses in real time using change data capture. A UC Berkeley applied math graduate who spent her early career as an equity analyst at Bank of America and a software investor at the hedge fund Balyasny, she switched sides of the table in 2023 to build the kind of company she used to underwrite, co-founding Artie with her husband and CTO Robin Tang. After going through Y Combinator's Summer 2023 batch, the pair grew Artie to a roster of enterprise customers including ClickUp, Substack, and Alloy processing more than 700 billion rows a year, and raised a $12 million Series A led by Standard Capital's Dalton Caldwell in January 2026, on top of a $3.3 million seed.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CEO at Artie
- **Organizations:** Artie, Balyasny Asset Management, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Y Combinator
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** B.A. in Applied Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
- **Known for:** Co-founded and leads Artie, a real-time data replication platform built on change data capture and Kafka stream processing, Took Artie through Y Combinator's Summer 2023 accelerator batch, Grew Artie to enterprise customers including ClickUp, Substack, and Alloy, processing more than 700 billion rows a year

## Career timeline

- **2017** — Joined Bank of America Merrill Lynch as an Equity Research Associate and Analyst
- **2020** — Moved to Balyasny Asset Management as an analyst covering enterprise software investments
- **2023** — Co-founded Artie with husband Robin Tang and joined Y Combinator's Summer 2023 batch
- **2023** — Closed a $3.3M seed round led by Exponent Founders Capital (announced Feb 2024)
- **2026** — Raised a $12M Series A led by Standard Capital's Dalton Caldwell

## Achievements

- Co-founded and leads Artie, a real-time data replication platform built on change data capture and Kafka stream processing
- Took Artie through Y Combinator's Summer 2023 accelerator batch
- Grew Artie to enterprise customers including ClickUp, Substack, and Alloy, processing more than 700 billion rows a year
- Raised a $12M Series A (Jan 2026) led by Standard Capital, with Y Combinator, Pathlight Ventures, and angels including Arash Ferdowsi, Benn Stancil, Chris Best, and Lenny Rachitsky
- Built Artie's go-to-market entirely on founder-led cold outreach with no dedicated sales development reps

## Latest updates

- **2026-01** — Artie announced a $12M Series A led by Standard Capital to make real-time data the default for AI systems.

## Links

- Website: https://artie.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jacqueline-cheong
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/JacquelineSYC19

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Last updated: 2026-06-12