Where does Kayla Lee work?

Kayla Lee is Founder of Outship and Chief Operating Officer at Trace.

What companies did Kayla Lee found?

Kayla Lee founded Outship, Trace.

Where did Kayla Lee go to school?

Kayla Lee studied at Y Combinator (W25); University of California, Berkeley (Bachelor's, Computer Science); University of California, Berkeley (MS, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science).

Kayla Lee

Founder

Founder at Outship · Chief Operating Officer at Trace

San Francisco, California, United States

FoundedOutship · YC Trace

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About

Kayla Lee has worked on natural language processing research at Berkeley AI Research and now leads Outship, a platform focused on engineer hiring.

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Founder at Outship YC W25

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Kayla went through Y Combinator (Winter 2025) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

Their group partner at YC was Gustaf Alstromer, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Outship's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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Outship's investors · 2

Treeo VCSan Francisco Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2025

Co-founders at Outship

Saner CakirFounder

Chief Operating Officer at Trace

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Trace's investors · 10

Coinbase VenturesSan Francisco · $100K – $10M checks CoinFundNew York · $6M – $10M checks · since 2026 GMO VenturePartnersTokyo Goodwater CapitalBurlingame · $5M – $50M checks · since 2026 Jump CapitalChicago Paxos Transpose Platform ManagementSan Francisco · since 2026 WefunderSan Francisco · since 2026 Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2026 Zeno VenturesGeneva · since 2026

Co-founders at Trace

Yash Vardhan PansariCo-founder

Saner CakirChief Executive Officer

Experience

Outship (YC W25)Co-Founder & COOcurrent2025 — present
Generality, Inc. (YC W25)Co-Founder & COOcurrent2025 — present
Berkeley Artificial Intelligence ResearchResearcher2023 — 2025

Frequently asked questions

Who is Kayla Lee?: Kayla Lee has worked on natural language processing research at Berkeley AI Research and now leads Outship, a platform focused on engineer hiring.
Where does Kayla Lee work?: Kayla Lee is Founder of Outship and Chief Operating Officer at Trace.
What companies did Kayla Lee found?: Kayla Lee founded Outship, Trace.
Where did Kayla Lee go to school?: Kayla Lee studied at Y Combinator (W25); University of California, Berkeley (Bachelor's, Computer Science); University of California, Berkeley (MS, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science).