# Topaz Turkenitz

> Topaz Turkenitz is the co-founder and CEO of Vespper (YC F24), a multi-agent AI system that acts as a 24/7 on-call engineer, triaging alerts and troubleshooting incidents through Slack in seconds. A full-stack software engineer with a background in computer science and design, she spent years at the security unicorn Snyk building distributed systems at 99.9% uptime and running growth experiments before setting out to make on-call work stress-free.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CEO at Vespper
- **Organizations:** Vespper, Snyk, 99designs
- **Nationality:** Israeli
- **Education:** Computer Science
- **Known for:** Co-founded Vespper and got into Y Combinator's Fall 2024 batch, At Snyk, maintained 99.9% uptime for her team's distributed systems, Led one of Snyk's top growth experiments

## Career timeline

- **—** — Worked at 99designs, a global e-commerce design marketplace, driving end-to-end product initiatives
- **—** — Joined Snyk, the developer-security unicorn, building and maintaining large distributed systems
- **—** — At Snyk, led product-led growth experiments and maintained 99.9% uptime for her team's services; helped secure a Fortune 500 bank
- **2024** — Co-founded Vespper with Dudu Lasry and joined Y Combinator's Fall 2024 (F24) batch
- **2024** — Vespper raised a Seed round (approx. $130K noted) and publicly launched a 24/7 AI on-call engineer

## Achievements

- Co-founded Vespper and got into Y Combinator's Fall 2024 batch
- At Snyk, maintained 99.9% uptime for her team's distributed systems
- Led one of Snyk's top growth experiments
- Spearheaded a project that helped secure a Fortune 500 bank as a customer
- Launched Vespper's 24/7 AI on-call engineer connecting Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, Notion and Confluence

## Latest updates

- **2024-10** — Vespper launched publicly through Y Combinator as a 24/7 AI on-call engineer.
- **2024-12** — Company's most recent funding recorded as a Seed round.

## Links

- Website: https://vespper.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/topaz-t/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/topaz_tee
- GitHub: https://github.com/topaztee

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Last updated: 2026-07-31