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Josephine Lee
InvestorFounderBS/MEng Candidate, MIT EECS at The E14 Fund · Founder at Palette
New York, New York, United States
FoundedPalette · YC
About
BS/MEng candidate at MIT EECS.
Likely email· guessed from name + firm domain, not firm-published
- j•••@palettetechnology.comreveal75% confident
Founder at PaletteYC S26
Intro paths
YC
Josephine 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 Ankit Gupta, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Palette's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Josephine can intro founders to Palette's investors below.
Palette's investors · 3
Co-founders at Palette
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Serena PeiFounder
Experience
- Palette LabsCo-Foundercurrent2026 — present
- Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyGraduate Researchercurrent2025 — present
- Venture Capital FirmsVenture Capitalcurrent2025 — present
- DatadogSoftware Engineering Intern2025New York, NY
- Scale AIIntern - GenAI2025
- MicrosoftResearch Engineer Intern2025
- LinkedInSoftware Engineering Intern2024Sunnyvale, California, United States
- Broad Institute of MIT and HarvardResearch Software Engineer Associate2023 — 2024Cambridge, MA
- TIAASoftware Engineer Intern2023
- ScribeUpSoftware Engineer Intern2023
- BoreDMJunior Full Stack Developer2022
Skills & more
Problem SolvingMicrosoft AzurePostgreSQLDockerGoogle CloudAWS Command Line Interface (CLI)ElasticsearchAWS GlueApache AirflowPySparkDatabasesDjango REST Framework
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Python (Programming Language)JavaScriptC++AWS LambdaSeleniumAmazon Web Services (AWS)React.jsFlaskFirebaseAI AgentsLangChainDistributed SystemsFrom Josephine's professional profile.
Colleagues at The E14 Fund
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Josephine Lee?
- BS/MEng candidate at MIT EECS.
- Where does Josephine Lee work?
- Josephine Lee is Founder of Palette and BS/MEng Candidate, MIT EECS at The E14 Fund.
- What companies did Josephine Lee found?
- Josephine Lee founded Palette.
- Where did Josephine Lee go to school?
- Josephine Lee studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Bachelor of Science, Computer Science and Engineering (Course 6-3)); Y Combinator (YC MIT IAP 2026 Program Grant Recipient); Stuyvesant High School (High School Diploma).
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