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Alen Polakof

Founder

Founder at Flai

San Francisco, California, United States

FoundedFlai · YC

About

Alen Polakof is founder and CTO of Flai. He previously served as a founding engineer at HappyRobot and spent over four years in infrastructure roles at Uber.

LinkedIn ↗

Founder at FlaiYC S25

Intro paths

YC

Alen went through Y Combinator (Summer 2025) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

GP

Their group partner at YC was Andrew Miklas, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Flai's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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In turn, Alen can intro founders to Flai's investors below.

Flai's investors · 5

Beat VenturesFirst Round CapitalInnovation EndeavorsToyota VenturesY Combinator

Co-founders at Flai

APAri Polakof
Ari PolakofFounder
JAJuan Alzugaray
Juan AlzugarayFounder

Experience

  1. FlaiCo-Foundercurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco, California, United States
  2. HappyRobotFounding Engineer2025San Francisco Bay Area
  3. UberSenior Software Engineer2024 — 2025San Francisco Bay Area
  4. UberSoftware Engineer II2022 — 2024San Francisco Bay Area
  5. UberSoftware Engineer I2021 — 2022San Francisco Bay Area

Education

  1. Georgia Institute of TechnologyMaster's degree, Computer Science2019 — 2020
  2. Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor's degree, Computer Science2015 — 2019

Founder mafias

Y Combinator mafia8,668

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Georgia Institute of Technology mafia155

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Uber mafia147

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Bastien BeurierSoftware EngineerFounded Lantern +1Mike MahlkowOperations and Business DevelopmentFounded Fastgen +1Charlie CorreaSenior Operations ManagerFounded Luable +1Khalid AshmawySenior Tech Lead ManagerFounded Munify +1Edgar PavlovskyData ScienceFounded MRGN +1Ali KashaniHead of Serve RoboticsFounded Serve Robotics

+ 140 more

HappyRobot mafia3

Also came through, then founded or led a company.

Ari PolakofFounding EngineerFounded FlaiAnshul PaulFounding EngineerFounded BaseFrame

Same school

Also attended Georgia Institute of Technology318

Brando De CourtenData Engineer at P101 VenturesTom DyalCo-Founder at Redpoint VenturesWouter Van de PutteInvestment Director at Capricorn Venture PartnersWill McGinnisEntrepreneur and data science executive working at the intersection of AI/ML, technology, and business strategyJaya GuptaInvestor at Foundation CapitalJames WangGeneral Partner at Creative Ventures

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Shared employers

Also worked at Flai2

Ari PolakofFounder at FlaiJuan AlzugarayFounder at Flai

Also worked at HappyRobot6

Sunir KapoorNon-Executive Chairman at Kibo VenturesPablo PalafoxFounder at HappyRobotLuis PaarupFounder at HappyRobotJavier PalafoxFounder at HappyRobotAri PolakofFounder at FlaiAnshul PaulFounder at BaseFrame

Also worked at Uber366

Bill GurleyGeneral Partner Emeritus at BenchmarkJason CalacanisFounder of LAUNCH; host of This Week in StartupsAndrew ChenGeneral Partner at Andreessen HorowitzFrédérique DameInvestor at GV (Google Ventures)Nic LowdenInvestor at Moonfire VenturesAnnie KadavyVenture Partner at Redpoint Ventures

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