Engines was founded by Josh Valdez, Jet Zhou in 2023.

Who are Engines's investors?

Engines's investors include Y Combinator, Amino Capital, August Capital, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), SBXi.

Engines

DefunctYC W24

Founded 2023 · 2 employees · 5 known investors

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Engines provided tooling to set up code repositories with a single command.

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Founders & leadership· Y Combinator alumni (W24)

Engines was founded in 2023 by Josh Valdez and Jet Zhou.

Josh Valdez Co-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.

Jet Zhou Co-Founder & CTO2023–2025He previously served as an early engineer at Gem, where he built and scaled product infrastructure, and held engineering roles at ClassDojo and Amazon's Search Engine Marketing team. He holds BS and MEng degrees in Computer Science from MIT.

Investors · 5

Y Combinatorlisted by Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K

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Amino CapitalreportedPalo Alto · $100K – $10M

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August CapitalreportedSan Francisco Bay Area · $1M – $15M

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New Enterprise Associates (NEA)reportedMenlo Park · $200K – $40M

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SBXireportedCambridge · $10K – $1M

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Undisclosed amountSeries AJul 2017
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Frequently 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, Amino Capital, August Capital, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), SBXi.