# Serena Ge

> Serena Ge is the San Francisco-based co-founder and CEO of Datacurve, which creates expert coding data for training and evaluating AI models. A former Waterloo computer science student and Cohere intern, she previously built a climbing training app and qualified twice for Canadian bouldering nationals. She and Charley Lee developed Datacurve during Y Combinator’s Winter 2024 batch; the company announced a $15 million Series A in October 2025. In 2026, Ge co-authored the introduction to the DeepSWE software engineering benchmark.

- **Role:** Co-founder and CEO at Datacurve
- **Organizations:** Datacurve, Cohere, Y Combinator, Send Story Training, UncleGPT, CarperAI, Royal Bank of Canada, 8VC
- **Education:** Computer Science studies; did not complete degree, University of Waterloo, Startup accelerator, Winter 2024 batch, Y Combinator
- **Known for:** Qualified twice for Canadian bouldering nationals., Built a climbing app used by 3,700 athletes in more than 17 countries, according to her YC launch account., Co-created Red Flags, winner of the Hypertrack location-data prize at Hack the North 2022.

## Career timeline

- **2021** — Developed a personalised climbing training app, working with Team Canada and World Cup climbers.
- **2022** — Started computer science at Waterloo; co-created Red Flags, which won a Hypertrack location-data prize at Hack the North 2022.
- **2023** — Worked at Cohere on model reasoning; built UncleGPT with Charley Lee. Her personal site also records roles at RBC and CarperAI.
- **2024** — Attended YC Winter 2024 and pivoted three times before Datacurve; became its co-founder and CEO.
- **2025** — Recognised with Charley Lee in the Forbes 30 Under 30 AI category; Datacurve announced a $15 million Series A on October 9.
- **2026** — Co-authored the May 26 introduction to DeepSWE, an original long-horizon software engineering benchmark.

## Achievements

- Qualified twice for Canadian bouldering nationals.
- Built a climbing app used by 3,700 athletes in more than 17 countries, according to her YC launch account.
- Co-created Red Flags, winner of the Hypertrack location-data prize at Hack the North 2022.
- Co-founded Datacurve in the YC Winter 2024 batch.
- Included with Charley Lee in the 2025 Forbes 30 Under 30 AI category.
- Datacurve reported more than $1 million paid in contributor bounties by October 2025.
- Datacurve announced $15 million Series A financing, bringing reported total funding to $17.7 million in October 2025.
- Co-authored the introduction to DeepSWE with Wenqi Huang, Charley Lee and Leonard Tng.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — DeepSWE’s live leaderboard reports an update on September 22; Ge discussed community feedback and continued benchmark improvements in a September 21 X post.
- **2026-06** — Datacurve published a DeepSWE v1.1 revision focused on evaluation cleanliness and reproducibility.
- **2026-05** — Ge co-authored the May 26 DeepSWE introduction covering 113 tasks, 91 repositories and five programming languages.
- **2025-10** — Datacurve announced a $15 million Series A led by Chemistry; Waterloo reported $17.7 million in cumulative funding.

## Links

- Website: https://serenage.super.site/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/serena-ge-4583731b4
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/serenaa_ge
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/serenaa.ge/

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Last updated: 2026-10-26