Where did Kat Hu go to school?

Kat Hu studied at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Bachelor’s Degree, Industrial Engineering); Stanford University (MPP); Stanford University Graduate School of Business (Master of Business Administration - MBA).

Kat Hu

Founder

Founder at Sepal AI

San Francisco Bay Area

FoundedSepal AI · YC

Find your path to Kat

664 people in our graph share verified history with Kat — schools, employers, funds. One of them is your warm intro.

James DetweilerunlockedKat: together at Mercor (2026)

×4Kat: together at Mercor

×4Kat: together at McKinsey & Company

Kat: together at Turing

About

Kat Hu previously worked at McKinsey and built go-to-market and operations for Turing's foundational LLM trainer business, managing teams of over 500 AI trainers. She is now cofounder at Sepal AI.

Founder at Sepal AI YC S24

Intro paths

Kat went through Y Combinator (Summer 2024) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

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

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In turn, Kat can intro founders to Sepal AI's investors below.

Sepal AI's investors · 6

MetaplanetTallinn · $500K – $10M checks SID Venture PartnersKyiv · $200K checks Sterling RoadSan Francisco · $50K – $150K checks Team Ignite Venturessince 2024 Very Serious VenturesLynnwood Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2024

Co-founders at Sepal AI

Robi LinFounder

Experience

MercorAccount Leadcurrent2026 — present
Sepal AICo-Founder2024 — 2026San Francisco, California, United States
TuringEnterprise Account Lead, AI2022 — 2024San Francisco, California, United States
TuringChief Of Staff team2021 — 2023San Francisco, California, United States
One Acre FundInnovation Manager2021Nairobi, Kenya
McKinsey & CompanyConsultant2019 — 2021Redwood City, California
Watson InstituteFellow, Social Entrepreneurship2019Boulder, CO
DIBBSCo-Founder, CEO2016 — 2019Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area
RedfinProduct Manager Intern2018Greater Seattle Area
EatWithWeb Development Intern2015San Francisco, CA

Skills & more

Engineering12Problem Solving9Project Management5International Development4Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)5Data Analysis2Java10Matlab5Public Speaking4Teamwork3HTML6Python5

+12 more

LeadershipElectrical EngineeringSpanishFrenchChinesePowerPointResearchMicrosoft ExcelSocial MediaMicrosoft WordCMicrosoft Office

Languages Chinese · English · French · Spanish

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Kat Hu?: Kat Hu previously worked at McKinsey and built go-to-market and operations for Turing's foundational LLM trainer business, managing teams of over 500 AI trainers. She is now cofounder at Sepal AI.
Where does Kat Hu work?: Kat Hu is Founder of Sepal AI.
What companies did Kat Hu found?: Kat Hu founded Sepal AI.
Where did Kat Hu go to school?: Kat Hu studied at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Bachelor’s Degree, Industrial Engineering); Stanford University (MPP); Stanford University Graduate School of Business (Master of Business Administration - MBA).