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Finn Bauer

Founder

Founder at kapa.ai

Dover, Delaware, United States

Foundedkapa.ai · YC

About

Finn Bauer is CTO at kapa.ai, a Y Combinator-backed company. He previously worked as a software engineer at Bloomberg and holds master's degrees in Computer Science from Imperial College London and Finance from the London School of Economics.

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Founder at kapa.aiYC S23

Intro paths

YC

Finn went through Y Combinator (Summer 2023) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

GP

Their group partner at YC was Diana Hu, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran kapa.ai's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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In turn, Finn can intro founders to kapa.ai's investors below.

kapa.ai's investors · 2

Initialized CapitalY Combinator

Co-founders at kapa.ai

ESEmil Soerensen
Emil SoerensenFounder

Experience

  1. kapa.aiCo-Foundercurrent2023 — presentSan Francisco, California, United States
  2. Bloomberg LPSoftware Engineer2020 — 2023Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Deutschland
  3. SchlumbergerIntern, data science and software engineering2019 — 2020Greater Cambridge Area
  4. J.P. MorganSummer Intern Markets Structuring2018London Area, United Kingdom
  5. Goldman SachsOff-Cycle Intern Securities Division2017Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Deutschland
  6. IKB Deutsche Industriebank AGOff-Cycle Intern Debt Capital Markets2016Greater Dusseldorf Area
  7. IFH Institut für Handelsforschung GmbHWorking Student2016Cologne Bonn Region
  8. design hoch drei GmbH & Co.KGOff-Cycle Intern Project Management2014Stuttgart

Education

  1. Y Combinator2023
  2. Imperial College LondonMaster of Science - MS, Computing Science (Distinction)2018 — 2019
  3. The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)Master of Science - MS, Finance (Antoine Faure-Grimaud prize for Best Overall Student Performance)2017 — 2018
  4. University of CologneBachelor of Science - BS, Business Administration (Distinction)2013 — 2016
  5. Fudan UniversityUndergraduate Exchange, International Management2015

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