About
Kanyes Thaker is cofounder and president at Hyper. Previously, he led autonomy at Matic Robots and worked as a field development engineer at Snorkel AI. He holds a degree in computer science and mathematics from UC Berkeley (2021) and has prior experience in quantitative finance roles at Goldman Sachs and Point72.
kanyes @kanyesthaker
tired of apps that say they have "1,000+ connectors" when half make me mint an API key and the other half don't actually work
Aug 1, 2026 Β· β₯ 6 Β· β 1
kanyes @kanyesthaker
time to put my undergrad to good use https://t.co/ugn1Ct0b1i
Jul 22, 2026 Β· β₯ 4
kanyes @kanyesthaker
The jargon of words like "pinned" and "deprecate-then-require". The unnecessary parentheticals. The awkward metaphors ("dance", "dies at the next cut"). The arrows that don't actually convey causality. it's just a slurry of symbols
Jul 21, 2026 Β· β₯ 2
Founder at HyperYC X26
Intro paths
Kanyes went through Y Combinator (Spring 2026) β any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was David Lieb, General Partner at Y Combinator β the partner who ran Hyper's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile β
In turn, Kanyes can intro founders to Hyper's investors below.
Hyper's investors Β· 1
Co-founders at Hyper
