Ivan Lee is the Founder and CEO of Datasaur, an NLP data labeling and private LLM development platform based in Silicon Valley. A Stanford-trained engineer and serial entrepreneur, Ivan previously co-founded Loki Studios (acquired by Yahoo in 2013) and worked as a product manager at both Yahoo and Apple before launching Datasaur in 2019. Under his leadership, Datasaur has raised $9.2M across multiple seed rounds backed by Initialized Capital, Y Combinator, and Greg Brockman of OpenAI, serving enterprise clients including Google, Netflix, Spotify, the FBI, and Zoom with tools that improve labeling efficiency by up to 9.6x and enable companies to build their own private AI models.
Harj Taggar is a Managing Partner at Y Combinator and serial founder who went from Oxford law to Silicon Valley startup culture. He co-founded Auctomatic with the Collison brothers (Patrick and John, later of Stripe fame) in 2007, sold it for $5M in under a year, then became YC's first non-founder partner in 2010. He co-founded Initialized Capital with Garry Tan and Alexis Ohanian, co-founded technical hiring platform Triplebyte in 2015 (acquired by Karat in 2023), and returned to YC in 2020 as a Group Partner before becoming Managing Partner. He has advised over 1,000 companies across 17 YC batches and worked with more than 20 unicorns including Coinbase, Instacart, and Gusto.