Where does Liza Gurtin work?

Liza Gurtin is Founder of Accend and Builder Fellow at Pear VC.

Where did Liza Gurtin go to school?

Liza Gurtin studied at Y Combinator (S23); Stanford University Graduate School of Business (Ignite Program, Business); Purdue University (Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science).

Liza Gurtin

InvestorFounder

Builder Fellow at Pear VC · Investor at Adverb Ventures · Founder at Accend

New York, New York, United States

FoundedAccend · YC

Find your path to Liza

862 people in our graph share verified history with Liza — schools, employers, funds. One of them is your warm intro.

Ken ChenaultunlockedLiza: together at IBM Research (2014–2015)

×3Liza: together at Cisco

×2Liza: together at On Deck

×2Liza: together at Pear VC

Contact· self-published, not guessed

l•••@adverb.vcreveal

Founder at Accend YC S23

Intro paths

Liza went through Y Combinator (Summer 2023) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

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

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In turn, Liza can intro founders to Accend's investors below.

Accend's investors · 2

Adverb VenturesSan Francisco · $500K – $5M checks · since 2016 Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2023

Co-founders at Accend

Yutong PeiFounder

Joseph ZhouFounder

Experience

Accend (YC S23)Co-Founder & CEOcurrent2023 — present
Pear VCBuilder Fellowcurrent2020 — presentSan Francisco, California, United States
On DeckFellow ODF1current2019 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
BrexProduct2021 — 2023San Francisco, California, United States
Saison CapitalVC Scout2021
Vonzos PartnersEntrepreneur In Residence2018 — 2021San Francisco Bay Area
CiscoMachine Learning Product Manager2017 — 2021San Francisco Bay Area
Purdue UniversityGraduate Researcher2015 — 2017West Lafayette
Adobe ResearchDeep Learning/NLP Researcher2016San Francisco Bay Area
IBM ResearchResearcher2014 — 2015
Northwestern UniversityMachine Learning Researcher2015Evanston, Illinois
University of AlbertaMitacs Globalink Researcher2014Edmonton, Canada Area

Skills & more

Start-up LeadershipFundraisingStart-up VenturesMergers & Acquisitions (M&A)C++71C57Algorithms58Programming42Machine Learning48Shell Scripting12Artificial Intelligence22Computer Science16

+12 more

Deep LearningComputer VisionProduct ManagementData ScienceData VisualizationSocial Media MarketingSalesWritingPythonJavaScriptHTMLMatlab

Languages English · French · Hindi

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Colleagues at Pear VC

Investor at Premji Invest

Eddie Eltoukhy

Partner at Pear VC

Emma Krivoshein

Senior Operations Associate at Pear VC

Eric Lin

Acting Associate Director for Innovation & Industry Services (ADIIS) at National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Frequently asked questions

Who is Liza Gurtin?: Investor at Adverb Ventures
Where does Liza Gurtin work?: Liza Gurtin is Founder of Accend and Builder Fellow at Pear VC.
What companies did Liza Gurtin found?: Liza Gurtin founded Accend.
Where did Liza Gurtin go to school?: Liza Gurtin studied at Y Combinator (S23); Stanford University Graduate School of Business (Ignite Program, Business); Purdue University (Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science).