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Kayla Lee

Founder

Founder & COO at Outship

San Francisco, California, United States

FoundedOutship · YC

About

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

LinkedIn ↗

Founder & COO at OutshipYC W25

Intro paths

YC

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

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

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In turn, Kayla can intro founders to Outship's investors below.

Outship's investors · 2

Treeo VCY Combinator

Co-founders at Outship

SCSaner Cakir
Saner CakirFounder & CEO

Experience

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

Education

  1. Y CombinatorW252025
  2. University of California, BerkeleyBachelor's, Computer Science
  3. University of California, BerkeleyMS, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Same school

Also attended Y Combinator1,463

Akshat GoenkaInvestor at Moonfire VenturesJon XuGeneral Partner at Y CombinatorTed ChaiAssociate at Scale Venture PartnersLeo LuInvestor at Foundation CapitalMaroof AhmedFounder at Octopus VenturesYusuf SherwaniCo-Founder and CEO at Pelago; a Londoner living in New York City

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Also attended University of California, Berkeley987

Byron DeeterPartner at Bessemer Venture PartnersTrevor OelschigInvestment Team at General CatalystBrendan Bulik-SullivanInvestor at GV (Google Ventures)Glen AndersonPartner at Monta Vista CapitalAnthony LinHead of Intel Capital, Corporate Vice President at Intel CapitalScott ShawChief of Staff at Intel Capital

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Shared employers

Also worked at Outship (YC W25)1

Saner CakirFounder & CEO at Outship

Also worked at Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research10

Jeremy FianceFounder & Managing Partner at HouseMarissa Ramirez de ChanlatteFellow, Robotics & Computer Vision at Prime Movers LabHugo (Kanghong) ZhanCo-Founder, CTO at RankaiEshaan MoorjaniFounder at Vango AIEthan HouFounder at LetterbookAditya GanapathiFounder at Cora

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