About
Leon Yao is the founder of Whitespace. He previously worked as a Research Engineer at Instadeep on reinforcement learning for optimization problems, and held the CTO role at Test and Tutor. He holds an MSc in Machine Learning and a BEng in Mechanical Engineering from UCL.
Founder at WhitespaceYC S26
Intro paths
YC
Leon went through Y Combinator (Summer 2026) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Their group partner at YC was Jon Xu, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Whitespace's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Leon can intro founders to Whitespace's investors below.
Whitespace's investors · 1
Co-founders at Whitespace
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Alex TungFounder