About
Gabriel Birnbaum co-founded Can of Soup and previously worked as the first product designer at Substack, with background research in plasma physics. He is currently building Y/n.
Founder at Y/nYC S23
Intro paths
YC
Gabriel 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 Jared Friedman, YC Group Partner — the partner who ran Y/n's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Gabriel can intro founders to Y/n's investors below.
Y/n's investors · 1
Co-founders at Y/n
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Eric MeierFounder
Experience
- Y/nCEO & Co-Foundercurrent2025 — presentСан-Франциско, CA
- Can of SoupCEO & Co-Founder2023 — 2025Metropolregion San Francisco Bay Area
- SubstackProduct Designer2020 — 2023Metropolregion San Francisco Bay Area
- Plasma.jlLead Software Engineer2021 — 2023Metropolregion San Francisco Bay Area
- NeuralPDE.jlContributing Software Engineer2021 — 2022San Francisco Bay Area
Skills & more
PhysicsComputer-Aided Design (CAD)JavaScript4Julia (Programming Language)Computational plasma
Languages English · French · German · Hebrew · Portuguese · Spanish · Swedish
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Gabriel Birnbaum?
- Gabriel Birnbaum co-founded Can of Soup and previously worked as the first product designer at Substack, with background research in plasma physics. He is currently building Y/n.
- Where does Gabriel Birnbaum work?
- Gabriel Birnbaum is Founder of Y/n.
- What companies did Gabriel Birnbaum found?
- Gabriel Birnbaum founded Y/n.
- Where did Gabriel Birnbaum go to school?
- Gabriel Birnbaum studied at Y Combinator; University of California, Berkeley (Grant awardee); Heidelberg University (Bachelor of Science, Computer Science).
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