Engines
DefunctYC W24Founded 2023 · 2 employees · 3 known investors
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Engines provided tooling to set up code repositories with a single command.
Also known as Parasale
Founders & leadership· Y Combinator alumni (W24)
Engines was founded in 2023 by Josh Valdez and Jet Zhou.
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Josh Valdezin𝕏Co-Founder2024–2025He previously worked as an engineering manager at Gem, an infrastructure engineer on Uber's machine learning platform and reliability teams, and holds a BS in Computer Science from Stanford.
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UT, Partners Win up to $160M for NSF Regional Innovation Engine To Drive Rural Economic Development - Newsnews.utk.edu · Jul 2026Frequently asked questions
- What does Engines do?
- Engines provided tooling to set up code repositories with a single command.
- Who founded Engines?
- Engines was founded by Josh Valdez, Jet Zhou in 2023.
- Who are Engines's investors?
- Engines's investors include Y Combinator, August Capital, New Enterprise Associates (NEA).