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Joe Fioti

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Founder / CEO at Luminal

San Francisco, California, United States

FoundedLuminal · YCLuminal

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Anthony LinunlockedJoe: together at Intel Corporation (2022–2025)
×2Joe: together at Intel Corporation
×9Joe: together at Y Combinator

About

Joe Fioti previously worked at Intel on CPU microcode and ML accelerators. He is now building tools to automatically generate GPU kernels for machine learning models.

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Founder / CEO at LuminalYC S25

Intro paths

YC

Joe 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 Luminal's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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In turn, Joe can intro founders to Luminal's investors below.

Luminal's investors · 3

Felicis VenturesSan Francisco · $500K – $15M checksNew Enterprise Associates (NEA)Menlo Park · $200K – $40M checksY CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2025

Co-founders at Luminal

MGMatthew Gunton
Matthew GuntonFounder
JSJake Stevens
Jake StevensFounder

Founder at Luminal

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In turn, Joe can intro founders to Luminal's investors below.

Luminal's investors · 2

Felicis VenturesSan Francisco · $500K – $15M checksSterling RoadSan Francisco · $50K – $150K checks

Experience

  1. Luminal (YC S25)Co-Founder, CEOcurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco, California, United States
  2. Intel CorporationSoftware Engineer2022 — 2025Austin, Texas, United States
  3. Sidekick AIFounder2020 — 2024United States
  4. Lockheed MartinSoftware Engineer2021 — 2022
  5. Penn State UniversityAdjunct Lecturer2020 — 2022

Skills & more

Desktop Application Development5Machine Learning5Mobile Applications5Artificial Intelligence (AI)2Data Mining2

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Joe Fioti?
Joe Fioti previously worked at Intel on CPU microcode and ML accelerators. He is now building tools to automatically generate GPU kernels for machine learning models.
Where does Joe Fioti work?
Joe Fioti is Founder / CEO of Luminal.
What companies did Joe Fioti found?
Joe Fioti founded Luminal, Luminal.
Where did Joe Fioti go to school?
Joe Fioti studied at Y Combinator (S25); Penn State University (Computer Science, Machine Learning); Dallas Senior High School.

Founder mafias

Dallas Senior High School mafia2

Also came through, then founded or led a company.

Andrew NakkacheFounded Habitat +1

Same school

Also attended Dallas Senior High School1

Andrew NakkacheVenture Scout at Prototype Capital

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