About
John Chirikjian founded AI.Fashion during Y Combinator's S20 batch and previously started 3ayez through Y Combinator's W18 batch. He is currently building Starpilot.
Founder at AI.FashionYC S20
Intro paths
YC
John went through Y Combinator (Summer 2020) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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In turn, John can intro founders to AI.Fashion's investors below.
AI.Fashion's investors · 3
Co-founders at AI.Fashion
DC
Daniel CitronFounder
Experience
- StarpilotFoundercurrent2026 — present
- BacklotCofounder & CTO2020 — 2025Los Angeles, California, United States
- NodogoroFounder2017 — 2025
- AyezCofounder & CTO2017 — 2020Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
- MicrosoftTechnical PM2016Redmond, Washington
- Johns Hopkins Whiting School of EngineeringResearcher2015Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics
Skills & more
Teamwork9Computer Science9Research8Film Production12Directing7Web Design5Photography10Editing9Social Networking2Photoshop5Copywriting3Advertising2
Languages English · Japanese
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is John Chirikjian?
- John Chirikjian founded AI.Fashion during Y Combinator's S20 batch and previously started 3ayez through Y Combinator's W18 batch. He is currently building Starpilot.
- Where does John Chirikjian work?
- John Chirikjian is Founder of AI.Fashion.
- What companies did John Chirikjian found?
- John Chirikjian founded AI.Fashion.
- Where did John Chirikjian go to school?
- John Chirikjian studied at Yale University (Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science [Honors, Distinction in the Major]).
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