# Richard Meng

> Richard Meng is the co-founder and CEO of Roe AI, a Y Combinator-backed (W24) startup building an AI-powered data warehouse that lets data teams query unstructured, multimodal data - documents, images, web pages, video - with plain SQL. A UC Berkeley CS and Statistics double major, he previously led generative AI engineering at Snowflake and worked on the Skills and Knowledge Graph products at LinkedIn before founding Roe AI in 2023 to solve a problem that nagged him for a decade: the 80% of enterprise data that never gets used because it isn't in neat rows and columns.

- **Role:** Co-founder & CEO at Roe AI
- **Organizations:** Roe AI, Snowflake, LinkedIn, UC Berkeley
- **Education:** B.A./B.S. Computer Science and Statistics (double degree), University of California, Berkeley
- **Known for:** Co-founded and leads Roe AI, an AI-powered data warehouse for unstructured, multimodal data, Built and shipped Snowflake's generative AI data copilot to hundreds of Fortune 2000 enterprises, Led Skills and Knowledge Graph products at LinkedIn supporting the world's largest economic graph

## Career timeline

- **UC Berkeley** — Researched OpenStreetMap (OSM) data using Berkeley's supercomputer clusters
- **LinkedIn** — Led Skills and Knowledge Graph products; built infrastructure for the world's largest economic graph and generative skill assessment
- **Snowflake** — Tech lead for Generative AI; tuned open-source LLMs and shipped an AI data copilot to hundreds of Fortune 2000 customers
- **2023** — Co-founded Roe AI with Jason Wang
- **2024** — Roe AI joined Y Combinator (Winter 2024 batch) and launched publicly on Hacker News
- **2024-08** — Closed a $3.5M seed round led by Gradient Ventures (Google AI Ventures), with Ardent Ventures and ex-Snowflake execs

## Achievements

- Co-founded and leads Roe AI, an AI-powered data warehouse for unstructured, multimodal data
- Built and shipped Snowflake's generative AI data copilot to hundreds of Fortune 2000 enterprises
- Led Skills and Knowledge Graph products at LinkedIn supporting the world's largest economic graph
- Raised a $3.5M seed round (Aug 2024) led by Gradient Ventures
- Admitted to Y Combinator's Winter 2024 batch

## Latest updates

- **2024-08** — Roe AI closed a $3.5M seed round led by Gradient Ventures (Google AI Ventures)
- **2024-08** — Launched publicly on Hacker News (Launch HN) with a free tier and $50 in AI credits

## Links

- Website: https://roe-ai.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/berkeleymeng

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Last updated: 2026-06-21