Anna Wang
FounderFounder at Searchlight
San Francisco, California, United States
FoundedSearchlight · YC
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About
Anna Wang is co-founder and CTO of Searchlight. She previously held product management, business consulting, and software engineering roles at Google, McKinsey, and Uber, and holds a BS and MS in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence from Stanford.
Founder at SearchlightYC W19
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Co-founders at Searchlight
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Kerry WangFounder (acquired)
Experience
- KERNELProduct & Partnershipscurrent2026 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- Various CompaniesAngel Investor & Advisorcurrent2019 — present
- MultiverseHead of AI2024 — 2025London Area, United Kingdom
- SearchlightCo-Founder | CTO & President2018 — 2024San Francisco Bay Area
- ForbesForbes 30 Under 30, Enterprise Technology 20212021
- Stanford UniversityResearcher, Sustainability and Artificial Intelligence Lab2017 — 2018Stanford, CA
- McKinsey & CompanyBusiness Analyst2017Washington D.C. Metro Area
- GoogleAssociate Product Manager2016Mountain View, CA
- UberSoftware Engineer2015San Francisco Bay Area
Skills & more
Public Speaking12Teamwork9Leadership8JavaScript6Ruby on Rails6Java9C++6HTML6CSS4Microsoft Word5PowerPoint7Microsoft Excel7
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- Who is Anna Wang?
- Anna Wang is co-founder and CTO of Searchlight. She previously held product management, business consulting, and software engineering roles at Google, McKinsey, and Uber, and holds a BS and MS in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence from Stanford.
- Where does Anna Wang work?
- Anna Wang is Founder of Searchlight.
- What companies did Anna Wang found?
- Anna Wang founded Searchlight.
- Where did Anna Wang go to school?
- Anna Wang studied at Stanford University (M.S., Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence); Stanford University (Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science); Y Combinator (W19).
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