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Emil Mikhailov

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Founder/CEO at Entry

United States

FoundedEntry · YC

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About

Emil Mikhailov founded and previously led XIX.ai, developing Entry, a biometric single sign-on system using facial recognition. Before that, he served as a Staff Product Manager at Cribl, where he worked on Cribl Search, a federated search platform for machine data.

Founder/CEO at EntryYC W17

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Emil went through Y Combinator (Winter 2017) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

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Entry's investors · 8

B4 Capital$10M – $50M checks · since 2024Cabra VCLimassol · since 2024ContrarySan Francisco · $2M checks · since 2024FrialeNashville · $100K – $600K checks · since 2024Lightspeed Venture PartnersMenlo Park · $1.7M – $87M checks · since 2024RTP GlobalNew York · $1M – $15M checks · since 2025Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2017ZillionizePalo Alto · $200K checks · since 2024

Experience

  1. CriblStaff Product Manager2022 — 2025
  2. EntryCEO and Founder2017 — 2022San Francisco Bay Area
  3. AI Meetup SeriesFounder2016 — 2018San Francisco Bay Area
  4. BZS VenezuelaHead of Procurement Department2011 — 2013Caracas, Venezuela

Skills & more

Business Strategy5Operations Management4IT Management2Start-ups4New Business Development4Cross BorderBusiness Planning1Business ModelingBusiness Development3Sales2

Languages English · Russian · Spanish

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Who is Emil Mikhailov?
Emil Mikhailov founded and previously led XIX.ai, developing Entry, a biometric single sign-on system using facial recognition. Before that, he served as a Staff Product Manager at Cribl, where he worked on Cribl Search, a federated search platform for machine data.
Where does Emil Mikhailov work?
Emil Mikhailov is Founder/CEO of Entry.
What companies did Emil Mikhailov found?
Emil Mikhailov founded Entry.
Where did Emil Mikhailov go to school?
Emil Mikhailov studied at Stanford University (Continuing Study, Business/Managerial Economics); Y Combinator; Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO (Startup Academy).

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