Jake Phelan
FounderFounder at Spotlight Realty
New York, New York, United States
FoundedSpotlight Realty · YC
About
Jake Phelan serves as CTO at Spotlight Realty.
Founder at Spotlight RealtyYC S25
Intro paths
YC
Jake went through Y Combinator (Summer 2025) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Their group partner at YC was Jared Friedman, YC Group Partner — the partner who ran Spotlight Realty's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Jake can intro founders to Spotlight Realty's investors below.
Spotlight Realty's investors · 1
Co-founders at Spotlight Realty
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Raymond AllieFounder
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Aryan SharmaFounder
Experience
- Spotlight Realty (YC S25)CTO & Co-Foundercurrent2025 — presentNew York, New York, United States
- Generative AI at CornellCo-Founder2024 — 2025Ithaca, New York, United States
- Phygtl, IncAI/ML SWE Intern2024 — 2025United States
- Scale AISWE for AI Training Data2024United States
- Cornell University Autonomous Bicycle TeamProgrammer2024Ithaca, New York, United States
- Guth DeConzo Consulting Engineers, PCMechanical Engineering Intern2023New York, New York, United States
- CDS Mestel Construction Corp.Communications Intern2022 — 2023Garden City Park, New York, United States
- Adventureland, Long IslandRide Operator2022Farmingdale, New York, United States
Skills & more
LeadershipCommunicationTypeScriptReact.jsTailwind CSSRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)Concurrent ProgrammingFull-Stack DevelopmentFinancial AnalysisOCamlGenerative AIPyTorch
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LangChainNatural Language Processing (NLP)OpenCVConvolutional Neural Networks (CNN)Application DevelopmentNEATGame DevelopmentTensorFlowScikit-LearnLarge Language Models (LLM)Computer Software TrainingWeb DevelopmentFrom Jake's professional profile.
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Jake Phelan?
- Jake Phelan serves as CTO at Spotlight Realty.
- Where does Jake Phelan work?
- Jake Phelan is Founder of Spotlight Realty.
- What companies did Jake Phelan found?
- Jake Phelan founded Spotlight Realty.
- Where did Jake Phelan go to school?
- Jake Phelan studied at Y Combinator (Summer 2025 Batch); Cornell University (Bachelor's degree, Computer Science).
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