About
Chenyu Li is a co-founder and CTO at Abel, a litigation document review platform. He previously held engineering roles at Yahoo! and Chime, and co-founded Telescope, which was acquired by Chime.
Founder at AbelYC W24
Intro paths
YC
Chenyu went through Y Combinator (Winter 2024) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Their group partner at YC was Garry Tan, President & CEO of Y Combinator — the partner who ran Abel's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Chenyu can intro founders to Abel's investors below.
Abel's investors · 1
Co-founders at Abel
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Sean SafahiFounder
Experience
- Approach OneFoundercurrent2025 — present
- AbelFounder, CTO2023 — 2024San Francisco Bay Area
- ChimeStaff Engineer2021 — 2023
- ChimeSenior Software Engineer2019 — 2021
- TelescopeCofounder, Engineering2016 — 2019San Francisco Bay Area
- YahooSoftware Development Engineer2014 — 2016San Francisco Bay Area
- SAPSoftware Engineering2010 — 2012
Skills & more
C/C++ STL1COMJava6Python4JavaScript10JSP5Servlets3PHP1Win32 APIObjective-C1UnixVisual Studio1
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EclipsePerforceClearQuestJIRAGoogle App EngineNetBeansMySQLMicrosoft SQL ServerScrumObject Oriented DesignProgrammingTomcatLanguages English · Mandarin
- Instrument Rating — Federal Aviation Administration
- Private Pilot — Federal Aviation Administration
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Chenyu Li?
- Chenyu Li is a co-founder and CTO at Abel, a litigation document review platform. He previously held engineering roles at Yahoo! and Chime, and co-founded Telescope, which was acquired by Chime.
- Where does Chenyu Li work?
- Chenyu Li is Founder of Abel.
- What companies did Chenyu Li found?
- Chenyu Li founded Abel.
- Where did Chenyu Li go to school?
- Chenyu Li studied at Carnegie Mellon University (Master of Information Systems Management); Harbin Institute of Technology (Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Software Engineering).
Founder mafias
Y Combinator mafia8,773
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Carnegie Mellon University mafia231
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Harbin Institute of Technology mafia5
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Abel mafia2
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Same school
Also attended Carnegie Mellon University410
Kai-Fu LeeChairman of Sinovation Ventures and CEO of 01.AILucy GuoCo-founder of Scale AI; founder & CEO of PassesJoshua XuCo-founder & CEO of HeyGenJavier SolteroSenior Venture Partner at Felicis VenturesAvi BharadwajInvestment Director at Intel CapitalOren EtzioniVenture Partner at Madrona Venture Group
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Yuzhen ChenSenior Data Scientist at Yamaha Motor VenturesJulie EeftinkAssociate at Move EnergyRuizhi HongPrincipal at Lair East LabsBaoying TongInvestment Associate at Blackbird FoundryMing FuAnalyst at Gaorong VenturesAnnalise DragicPrincipal at Sapphire Ventures
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Shared employers
Also worked at Abel1
Also worked at Chime28
Kirsten GreenFounder and Managing Partner at Forerunner VenturesChris BrittCo-founder & CEO of ChimeRyan KingCo-founder of ChimeErica WaichmanHead of People & Community at Canvas VenturesAditi MaliwalGeneral Partner at Upfront VenturesEmmalyn ShawCo-Founder & Managing Partner at Flourish Ventures
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Jess LeePartner and Chief Product Officer at Sequoia CapitalMike SpeiserManaging Director at Sutter Hill VenturesBrian ActonCo-founder of WhatsApp; co-founder of Signal FoundationStewart ButterfieldCo-founder of Slack and FlickrMax LevchinCo-founder of PayPal; founder, chairman & CEO of Affirm; partner at SciFi VCAmjad MasadCo-founder & CEO of Replit
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