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Jaihee Kim

Founder

Co-Founder at Aleph Lab

Mountain View, California, United States

FoundedAleph Lab · YC

About

Jaihee Kim is a co-founder at Aleph Lab with six years of experience as a machine learning engineer at Google and YouTube. He holds an MS in Machine Learning from UC San Diego.

Co-Founder at Aleph LabYC F25

Intro paths

YC

Jaihee went through Y Combinator (Fall 2025) — 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 Aleph Lab's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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In turn, Jaihee can intro founders to Aleph Lab's investors below.

Aleph Lab's investors · 1

Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2025

Co-founders at Aleph Lab

DHDan Han
Dan HanCEO, Co-Founder

Experience

  1. Aleph LabCo-Foundercurrent2025 — present
  2. YouTubeSoftware Engineer2022 — 2025San Bruno, California & Zurich, Switzerland
  3. GoogleSoftware Engineer2019 — 2022Mountain View
  4. GoogleSoftware Engineer2018Mountain View, California, United States

Frequently asked questions

Who is Jaihee Kim?
Jaihee Kim is a co-founder at Aleph Lab with six years of experience as a machine learning engineer at Google and YouTube. He holds an MS in Machine Learning from UC San Diego.
Where does Jaihee Kim work?
Jaihee Kim is Co-Founder of Aleph Lab.
What companies did Jaihee Kim found?
Jaihee Kim founded Aleph Lab.
Where did Jaihee Kim go to school?
Jaihee Kim studied at UC San Diego (Master of Science - MS, Electrical Computer Engineering (Machine Learning and Data Science)); Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering); Korea Science Academy of KAIST (High School Diploma).

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Dan HanCEO, Co-Founder at Aleph Lab

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