Ai Daniil Bekirov
FounderFounder at Sparkles
San Francisco, California, United States
FoundedSparkles · YC
About
Daniil Bekirov dropped out of University College London to start Sparkles. He previously worked at Iterate.com, a startup founded by a former Monzo CTO, and at StructuredAI.
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Founder at SparklesYC W26
Intro paths
YC
Ai went through Y Combinator (Winter 2026) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
GP
Their group partner at YC was Jared Friedman, YC Group Partner — the partner who ran Sparkles's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Ai can intro founders to Sparkles's investors below.
Sparkles's investors · 3
Experience
- Sparkles (YC W26)CEOcurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- Structured AISoftware Engineer2025San Francisco Bay Area
- iterateSoftware Engineer Intern2025London Area, United Kingdom
Education
- Y CombinatorW262026
- UCLBachelor's degree, Computer Science2024 — 2025
- The King's School, CanterburyA Levels, Maths2021 — 2023
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