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Jonas Nelle

Founder

Founder at Autotab

San Francisco Bay Area

FoundedAutotab · YC

About

Jonas Nelle studied rationality at Harvard and previously worked as a data applications engineer at Palantir and Taktile (YC S20). He founded and exited a zero-knowledge rollup oracle on Ethereum before starting Autotab.

Founder at AutotabYC S23

Intro paths

YC

Jonas went through Y Combinator (Summer 2023) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

GP

Their group partner at YC was Harj Taggar, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Autotab's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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In turn, Jonas can intro founders to Autotab's investors below.

Autotab's investors · 1

Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2023

Experience

  1. CursorHead of Engineeringcurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
  2. AutotabCo-Founder & CEO2023 — 2025New York, NY
  3. Empiric NetworkCTO, Co-Founder2022 — 2023New York, United States
  4. TaktileEngineering2020 — 2021
  5. Palantir TechnologiesSoftware Engineering2020Berlin, Germany
  6. e.venturesDeveloper & Analyst2016 — 2017San Francisco Bay Area

Skills & more

Venture Capital3Entrepreneurship6Start-ups4Data Analysis2Analysis1PythonPostgreSQLPublic Speaking6JavaScript2Teamwork3Leadership7Team Leadership2
+5 moreStrategic PlanningBusiness DevelopmentBusiness StrategyInvestmentsFinancial Modeling

Languages English · French · German

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Jonas Nelle?
Jonas Nelle studied rationality at Harvard and previously worked as a data applications engineer at Palantir and Taktile (YC S20). He founded and exited a zero-knowledge rollup oracle on Ethereum before starting Autotab.
Where does Jonas Nelle work?
Jonas Nelle is Founder of Autotab.
What companies did Jonas Nelle found?
Jonas Nelle founded Autotab.
Where did Jonas Nelle go to school?
Jonas Nelle studied at Harvard University (Bachelor's degree, Rationality (Human & Artificial Intelligence: Psychology); Z Fellows; Prod.

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