About
Katia Bazzi is the CTO of Vibe. She previously led engineering at Stripe, where she managed development of financial products including credit cards and banking-as-a-service, and held engineering leadership roles at Lightstep and Eventbrite following her graduation from Carnegie Mellon University.
Co-Founder at VibeYC S24
Intro paths
YC
Katia went through Y Combinator (Summer 2024) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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In turn, Katia can intro founders to Vibe's investors below.
Vibe's investors · 2
Co-founders at Vibe
RM
Ray MorganCEO / Co-Founder
Experience
- CursorEngineeringcurrent2026 — present
- FocalCo-Founder & CTOcurrent2024 — present
- StripeEngineering Manager2020 — 2023
- LightstepStaff Software Engineer2017 — 2020San Francisco Bay Area
- EventbriteSoftware Engineer2015 — 2017San Francisco Bay Area
Education
- Carnegie Mellon UniversityBachelors2010 — 2014
Founder mafias
Y Combinator mafia8,668
Also came through, then founded or led a company.
Sam AltmanPresidentFounded LooptFred EhrsamYC Summer 2012Founded CoinbaseMatt HuangYC Winter 2011Founded HotspotsTrae StephensYC Winter 2022Founded PursuitDelian AsparouhovYC Summer 2014Founded Nightingale +1Justin KanYC Winter 2018Founded Rye +3
+ 8,661 more
Carnegie Mellon University mafia168
Also came through, then founded or led a company.
Dr. Manu KumarBSFounded Hi Hello +1Blake SchollBSFounded Boom +1Vishwas PrabhakaraB.S.Founded Fanvibe +1Dan SilbermanMathematics and Computer ScienceFounded Mozart Data +1Ivan KiriginMSFounded YesGraph +1Wei An WangBachelor's Degree (BS)Founded Readily +1
+ 161 more
Stripe mafia83
Also came through, then founded or led a company.
Hemant TanejaInvestor (former Board Member)Founded CommureMatt HuangBoard MemberFounded HotspotsBrian BrunnerSoftware EngineerFounded DataShare +1Mike MahlkowGrowthFounded Fastgen +1Shravan ReddyEngineering LeaderFounded PixelapseFrancesco MoiraghiGTMFounded Kickpay
+ 76 more
Eventbrite mafia9
Also came through, then founded or led a company.
Luke GroesbeckConsumer Product LeadFounded Foundation +1Vladimir KorshinFraud LeadFounded PathPilot +1Kevin HartzCo-Founder CEO & ChairmanFounded SauronTim ThimmaiahDirector of ProductFounded Type FiveApril ChangVP of EngineeringFounded 10 By 10Emily YuhasSenior Product ManagerFounded Awtomic
+ 2 more
Same school
Also attended Carnegie Mellon University378
Javier SolteroSenior Venture Partner at Felicis VenturesAvi BharadwajInvestment Director at Intel CapitalTejAdvisor at Clear VenturesOren EtzioniVenture Partner at Madrona Venture GroupDiana HuGeneral Partner at Y CombinatorVlad LoktevInvestor at Index Ventures
+ 372 more
Shared employers
Also worked at Cursor14
Zach CarloAnalyst at Miami University Redhawk VenturesBen LangVenture Advisor at Verissimo VenturesMari LuukkainenPrincipal at Identity.vcAlex BangashManaging Director and General Partner at Transpose Platform ManagementAmina MoinuddinTalent Partner at Unanimous CapitalConnor OviattVenture Capital Investment Competition at 1809 Capital
+ 8 more
Also worked at Stripe166
Hemant TanejaCEO & Managing Director of General CatalystMatt HuangCo-founder and Managing Partner at ParadigmLuciana LixandruPartner at Sequoia CapitalLaura BuhlerPartner, Head of Community at Felicis VenturesJanet WolpertInvestor at Index VenturesMark FiorentinoInvestor at Index Ventures
+ 160 more
Also worked at Lightstep3
Also worked at Eventbrite22
Roelof BothaAdvisor & former Steward at Sequoia Capital; SpaceX board memberNaomi Pilosof IonitaBoard Partner at Menlo VenturesShakhina PulatovaInvestor at Storm VenturesPayal DivakaranPartner at .406 VenturesMichel GlezerDirector at Qualcomm VenturesSkylar DorosinPrincipal at NVP Capital
+ 16 more