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Jonathan Li

Founder

CEO & Co-Founder at Induction Labs

San Francisco, California, United States

FoundedInduction Labs · YC

About

Jonathan Li is CEO and co-founder of Induction Labs, which develops foundation models.

CEO & Co-Founder at Induction LabsYC S26

Intro paths

YC

Jonathan went through Y Combinator (Summer 2026) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

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

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In turn, Jonathan can intro founders to Induction Labs's investors below.

Induction Labs's investors · 1

Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2026

Co-founders at Induction Labs

DLDavid Li
David LiFounder

Experience

  1. Induction LabsCo-founder, CEOcurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco, California, United States
  2. CohereMember of Technical Staff2025Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  3. CohereIntern of Technical Staff2024 — 2025Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  4. Portal WearCo-Founder2024 — 2025Kingston, Ontario, Canada
  5. Queen's UniversityMachine Learning Research Associate2022 — 2024Kingston, Ontario, Canada
  6. Queen's UniversitySoftware Developer2021 — 2024Kingston, Ontario, Canada
  7. RiftiumCo-Founder2022 — 2023Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Skills & more

Natural Language Processing (NLP)5TypeScript1Machine Learning2Vim1Rust (Programming Language)4Python (Programming Language)JavaScript4Swift (Programming Language)1PyTorch1React.js1Next.js1GIt1

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Frequently asked questions

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Jonathan Li is CEO and co-founder of Induction Labs, which develops foundation models.
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Where did Jonathan Li go to school?
Jonathan Li studied at Y Combinator; Kingston Secondary School.

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