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Jake Phelan

Founder

Founder at Spotlight Realty

New York, New York, United States

FoundedSpotlight Realty · YC

About

Jake Phelan serves as CTO at Spotlight Realty.

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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, General Partner at Y Combinator — 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

Y Combinator

Co-founders at Spotlight Realty

RARaymond Allie
Raymond AllieFounder
ASAryan Sharma
Aryan SharmaFounder

Experience

  1. Spotlight Realty (YC S25)CTO & Co-Foundercurrent2025 — presentNew York, New York, United States
  2. Generative AI at CornellCo-Founder2024 — 2025Ithaca, New York, United States
  3. Phygtl, IncAI/ML SWE Intern2024 — 2025United States
  4. Scale AISWE for AI Training Data2024United States
  5. Cornell University Autonomous Bicycle TeamProgrammer2024Ithaca, New York, United States
  6. Guth DeConzo Consulting Engineers, PCMechanical Engineering Intern2023New York, New York, United States
  7. CDS Mestel Construction Corp.Communications Intern2022 — 2023Garden City Park, New York, United States
  8. Adventureland, Long IslandRide Operator2022Farmingdale, New York, United States

Education

  1. Y CombinatorSummer 2025 Batch2025
  2. Cornell UniversityBachelor's degree, Computer Science2023 — 2025

Skills & more

LeadershipCommunicationTypeScriptReact.jsTailwind CSSRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)Concurrent ProgrammingFull-Stack DevelopmentFinancial AnalysisOCamlGenerative AIPyTorch
+12 moreLangChainNatural Language Processing (NLP)OpenCVConvolutional Neural Networks (CNN)Application DevelopmentNEATGame DevelopmentTensorFlowScikit-LearnLarge Language Models (LLM)Computer Software TrainingWeb Development

From Jake's professional profile.

Same school

Also attended Y Combinator1,464

Akshat GoenkaInvestor at Moonfire VenturesJon XuGeneral Partner at Y CombinatorTed ChaiAssociate at Scale Venture PartnersLeo LuInvestor at Foundation CapitalMaroof AhmedFounder at Octopus VenturesYusuf SherwaniCo-Founder and CEO at Pelago; a Londoner living in New York City

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Also attended Cornell University553

Doug LeonePartner at Sequoia Capital; former Global Managing PartnerJenny LeeSenior Managing Partner at Granite AsiaNeeraj AgrawalGeneral Partner at Battery VenturesMichelle FernandesInvestor at Index VenturesMicah RosenbloomGeneral Partner at Founder CollectiveAlexandra FarmerPrincipal at Intel Capital, North America

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Shared employers

Also worked at Spotlight Realty (YC S25)1

Raymond AllieFounder at Spotlight Realty

Also worked at Scale AI46

Mike VolpiInvestor at Index VenturesAvi BharadwajInvestment Director at Intel CapitalAlexandra FarmerPrincipal at Intel Capital, North AmericaErica VanInvestment Director at Intel CapitalWilliam ReedInvestor at Spark CapitalAravind BharadwajInvestment Director at Intel Capital

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