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Chenyu Li

Founder

Founder at Abel

San Francisco Bay Area

FoundedAbel · YC

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187 people in our graph share verified history with Chenyu — schools, employers, funds. One of them is your warm intro.

Anders RanumunlockedChenyu: together at SAP (2010–2012)
×8Chenyu: together at SAP
×3Chenyu: together at Chime

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

Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2024

Co-founders at Abel

SSSean Safahi
Sean SafahiFounder

Experience

  1. Approach OneFoundercurrent2025 — present
  2. AbelFounder, CTO2023 — 2024San Francisco Bay Area
  3. ChimeStaff Engineer2021 — 2023
  4. ChimeSenior Software Engineer2019 — 2021
  5. TelescopeCofounder, Engineering2016 — 2019San Francisco Bay Area
  6. YahooSoftware Development Engineer2014 — 2016San Francisco Bay Area
  7. SAPSoftware Engineering2010 — 2012

Skills & more

C/C++ STL1COMJava6Python4JavaScript10JSP5Servlets3PHP1Win32 APIObjective-C1UnixVisual Studio1
+12 moreEclipsePerforceClearQuestJIRAGoogle App EngineNetBeansMySQLMicrosoft SQL ServerScrumObject Oriented DesignProgrammingTomcat

Languages 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).

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Shared employers

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Sean SafahiFounder at Abel