Keenan Venuti
FounderFounder/CTO at Vector Legal
San Francisco, California, United States
FoundedVector Legal · YC
About
Keenan Venuti is founder and CTO of Vector Legal, an AI-powered legal services platform for startups. He previously worked as a staff AI engineer at Ironclad, a contract lifecycle management platform, and holds an M.S. from Northwestern and a B.A. from Harvard.
Founder/CTO at Vector LegalYC W26
Intro paths
YC
Keenan went through Y Combinator (Winter 2026) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
GP
Their group partner at YC was Jared Friedman, YC Group Partner — the partner who ran Vector Legal's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Keenan can intro founders to Vector Legal's investors below.
Vector Legal's investors · 1
Co-founders at Vector Legal
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Mitch DuncombeFounder
Experience
- Vector Legal (YC W26)CTO & Co-Foundercurrent2026 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- IroncladStaff Software Engineer - AI2025 — 2026
- IroncladSenior Software Engineer - AI2023 — 2025
- BARKLead Machine Learning Engineer2022 — 2023
- BARKSenior Machine Learning Engineer2021 — 2022
- AccentureMachine Learning Engineer2019 — 2021
- AdobeData Analyst2018 — 2019
- Harvard Business SchoolStudent Researcher2016
- OracleIntern2016Redwood Shores
- SharethroughIntern2015
- SharethroughIntern2014
Skills & more
BERT (Language Model)Google Cloud Platform (GCP)17Python74TensorFlow43Pandas24SQL46Jupyter Notebook18Tableau20PostgreSQL17Amazon Web Services (AWS)5Python (Programming Language)7Gremlin Query Language1
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JanusGraphLinuxApache AirflowDockerSemantic SearchAI PlatformRecommender SystemsSupply Chain AnalyticsChurn ManagementOptical Character Recognition (OCR)Entity ExtractionSearchFrom Keenan's professional profile.
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Keenan Venuti?
- Keenan Venuti is founder and CTO of Vector Legal, an AI-powered legal services platform for startups. He previously worked as a staff AI engineer at Ironclad, a contract lifecycle management platform, and holds an M.S. from Northwestern and a B.A. from Harvard.
- Where does Keenan Venuti work?
- Keenan Venuti is Founder/CTO of Vector Legal.
- What companies did Keenan Venuti found?
- Keenan Venuti founded Vector Legal.
- Where did Keenan Venuti go to school?
- Keenan Venuti studied at Harvard University (Bachelor's degree, Psychology & Computer Science); Northwestern University (Master of Science - MS, Artificial Intelligence); Gunn High School.
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