Lance Yan
FounderFounder & CEO at Traverse
San Francisco, California, United States
FoundedTraverse · YC
About
Founder and CEO of Traverse, which develops training data for AI models on complex judgment and reasoning tasks.
Founder & CEO at TraverseYC W26
Intro paths
Lance went through Y Combinator (Winter 2026) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was Jared Friedman, YC Group Partner — the partner who ran Traverse's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
In turn, Lance can intro founders to Traverse's investors below.
Traverse's investors · 2
Experience
- TraverseFounder / CEO
- KalshiSoftware Engineer / Builder
- StealthFounding Engineer / Multi-Agent Infra
- WAT.aiMachine Learning Engineer / Lead
- StatespaceGrandmaster / Aimlabs
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Lance Yan?
- Founder and CEO of Traverse, which develops training data for AI models on complex judgment and reasoning tasks.
- Where does Lance Yan work?
- Lance Yan is Founder & CEO of Traverse.
- What companies did Lance Yan found?
- Lance Yan founded Traverse.
- Where did Lance Yan go to school?
- Lance Yan studied at Y Combinator (W26); University of Waterloo (Bachelor of Computer Science); École Secondaire Moscrop Secondary School (Dogwood Diploma).
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