Johnny Chen

Founder

San Jose, California, United States

About

Chen previously worked as a software engineer at Ford Motor's R&D lab and has background in full stack engineering and operations management. He is now developing AI automation tools for dental clinic back-office operations.

LinkedIn ↗

Founder at Toothy AI YC W25

Intro paths

Johnny went through Y Combinator (Winter 2025) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

Their group partner at YC was Jared Friedman, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Toothy AI's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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In turn, Johnny can intro founders to Toothy AI's investors below.

Toothy AI's investors · 3

468 Capital Y Combinator Zeno Ventures

Co-founders at Toothy AI

Matt KerriganFounder

Tejas KonduruFounder

Experience

Toothy AI (YC W25)Co-Founder & CEOcurrent2024 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
SalezillaCo-Founder & Chief Operating Officer2018 — 2024San Francisco Bay Area
D-Ford Palo AltoSoftware Engineer2018 — 2019Palo Alto, California
Collective Technologies Inc.Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer2017 — 2018San Francisco Bay Area
Epsilon FinancialCo-Founder & Chief Executive Officer2014 — 2016San Francisco Bay Area

Education

Y CombinatorFounder2025
Purdue UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Finance
Hack ReactorOnsite Software Engineering Immersive Program
Lynbrook High SchoolHigh School Diploma

Skills & more

Data Analysis20Research17Marketing16Business Development15Financial Modeling12Social Media9Agile Methodologies6Test Driven Development6Event Planning7Risk Management4Express.js12Heroku14

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Object-Relational Mapping (ORM)Technical RecruitingManagementLeadershipPublic SpeakingCommunicationJavaScriptReact.jsNode.jsMySQLAngularJSMongoDB

Languages Chinese · English