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Joe Fioti

Founder

Founder / CEO at Luminal

San Francisco, California, United States

FoundedLuminal Β· YC

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.

Founder / CEO at LuminalYC S25

Intro paths

YC

Joe went through Y Combinator (Summer 2025) β€” any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

GP

Their group partner at YC was Jared Friedman, General Partner at Y Combinator β€” the partner who ran Luminal's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile β†—

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

Co-founders at Luminal

JSJake Stevens

Experience

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

Education

  1. Y CombinatorS252025
  2. Penn State UniversityComputer Science, Machine Learning2018 β€” 2022
  3. Dallas Senior High School2014 β€” 2018

Skills & more

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

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