Where does Bill Jiao work?

Bill Jiao is Founder of General Instinct.

What companies did Bill Jiao found?

Bill Jiao founded General Instinct.

Where did Bill Jiao go to school?

Bill Jiao studied at Boston University (Bachelor's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science); Y Combinator (Spring 26); Tsinghua International School (High School Student, Biology).

Bill Jiao

Founder

Founder at General Instinct

San Francisco Bay Area

FoundedGeneral Instinct · YC

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About

Bill Jiao previously worked on multimodal foundation model research at Siemens and holds patents on tardigrade proteins from his high school years. He is currently building edge intelligence systems for physical AI applications.

Founder at General Instinct YC X26

Intro paths

Bill went through Y Combinator (Spring 2026) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

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

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In turn, Bill can intro founders to General Instinct's investors below.

General Instinct's investors · 2

Imagination CapitalNew York · $100K – $150K checks Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2026

Co-founders at General Instinct

Guanming WangFounder

Experience

General Instinct (YC P26)Co-Founder, CEOcurrent2026 — presentSan Francisco, California, United States
SICK Sensor IntelligenceMachine Learning Engineer2025 — 2026Canton, Massachusetts, United States
Brown UniversityResearcher2023 — 2025Providence, Rhode Island, United States
SiemensMachine Learning Engineer Intern2024
SiemensData Analyst Intern2022

Skills & more

Extract, Transform, Load (ETL)1Data Analytics1Statistical ModelingMultivariate StatisticsNeuroscienceMachine LearningEvent PlanningMarketing StrategyVideo EditingWeb DevelopmentSoftware Project ManagementPresentation Skills

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Synthetic BiologyCommunity EngagementBiosafetyProject ManagementMarketingEducationTeam ManagementTime Series ForecastingPyTorchPython (Programming Language)GitHTML

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Bill Jiao?: Bill Jiao previously worked on multimodal foundation model research at Siemens and holds patents on tardigrade proteins from his high school years. He is currently building edge intelligence systems for physical AI applications.
Where does Bill Jiao work?: Bill Jiao is Founder of General Instinct.
What companies did Bill Jiao found?: Bill Jiao founded General Instinct.
Where did Bill Jiao go to school?: Bill Jiao studied at Boston University (Bachelor's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science); Y Combinator (Spring 26); Tsinghua International School (High School Student, Biology).