Benjamin Bolte
FounderFounder at K-Scale Labs
Mountain View, California, United States
FoundedK-Scale Labs Β· YC
About
Benjamin Bolte previously worked as a researcher and engineer at Tesla, Meta, Google, and Amazon.
Founder at K-Scale LabsYC W24
Intro paths
YC
Benjamin went through Y Combinator (Winter 2024) β any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Their group partner at YC was Harj Taggar, General Partner at Y Combinator β the partner who ran K-Scale Labs's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile β
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In turn, Benjamin can intro founders to K-Scale Labs's investors below.
K-Scale Labs's investors Β· 2
Co-founders at K-Scale Labs
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Matthew FreedFounder
Experience
- OpenAIEngineercurrent2026 β presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- K-Scale LabsEngineer, Founder2023 β 2025Palo Alto, California, United States
- MetaEngineer2022 β 2023New York City Metropolitan Area
- TeslaEngineer2021 β 2022Palo Alto, California, United States
- MetaEngineer2018 β 2021Seattle, Washington, United States
- MetaIntern2017Seattle
- GoogleIntern2016Mountain View
- AmazonIntern2016Seattle
Skills & more
PyTorch9Apache Spark9Keras6TensorFlow2Natural Language Processing (NLP)2Information Retrieval3Computer Vision1
Languages Mandarin Β· Spanish
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Benjamin Bolte?
- Benjamin Bolte previously worked as a researcher and engineer at Tesla, Meta, Google, and Amazon.
- Where does Benjamin Bolte work?
- Benjamin Bolte is Founder of K-Scale Labs.
- What companies did Benjamin Bolte found?
- Benjamin Bolte founded K-Scale Labs.
- Where did Benjamin Bolte go to school?
- Benjamin Bolte studied at Emory University (Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics and Computer Science); Y Combinator.
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