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Michael Silver

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Founder at Kaizen

San Francisco, California, United States

FoundedKaizen · YC

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1,336 people in our graph share verified history with Michael — schools, employers, funds. One of them is your warm intro.

Ken ChenaultunlockedMichael: together at Facebook (2019)
Michael: together at SingleStore
Michael: together at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
×8Michael: together at Y Combinator

About

Michael Silver was the first engineer and head of infrastructure at Gather, where he helped scale the company through Series B funding. He previously worked as an early engineer at Jamsocket (acquired by Modal), and held engineering roles at SingleStore, Meta's distributed systems team, and Apple's Siri division, alongside research experience at MIT's Computer Science and AI Lab. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from MIT.

Founder at KaizenYC X25

Intro paths

YC

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

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

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In turn, Michael can intro founders to Kaizen's investors below.

Kaizen's investors · 5

AccelPalo Alto · $1.6M – $70M checks · since 2025Andreessen HorowitzMenlo Park · $500K – $50M checks · since 2025Carpenter CapitalBoise · since 2025New Enterprise Associates (NEA)Menlo Park · $200K – $40M checks · since 2025Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2025

Co-founders at Kaizen

KAKenneth Acquah
Kenneth AcquahFounder

Experience

  1. KaizenCo-Founder & CEOcurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco, California, United States
  2. JamsocketSenior Software Engineer2024New York, New York, United States
  3. GatherEngineering Manager, Infrastructure & Engineering Productivity2022 — 2023
  4. GatherTeam Lead (Manager), Infrastructure2021 — 2022
  5. GatherTech Lead, Infrastructure2020 — 2021
  6. GatherSoftware Engineer2020
  7. SingleStoreSoftware Engineering Intern2020
  8. FacebookSoftware Engineering Intern2019Greater Seattle Area
  9. AppleSoftware Engineering Intern2017San Francisco Bay Area
  10. MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)Undergraduate Researcher2016 — 2017Greater Boston
  11. MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)Infrastructure Engineer2016Greater Boston
  12. MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)Research Intern2014 — 2016Greater Boston
  13. Russian School of MathematicsPrivate Tutor2013 — 2014Greater Boston
  14. Dana-Farber Cancer InstituteResearch Assistant2014Greater Boston

Skills & more

Distributed Systems1Rust (Programming Language)Computer Science5Programming4Natural Language Processing1Artificial Intelligence2Python3Java1C++1RubyMySQLPostgreSQL
+5 moreMongoDBHTMLCascading Style Sheets (CSS)JavaScriptLeadership

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Who is Michael Silver?
Michael Silver was the first engineer and head of infrastructure at Gather, where he helped scale the company through Series B funding. He previously worked as an early engineer at Jamsocket (acquired by Modal), and held engineering roles at SingleStore, Meta's distributed systems team, and Apple's Siri division, alongside research experience at MIT's Computer Science and AI Lab. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from MIT.
Where does Michael Silver work?
Michael Silver is Founder of Kaizen.
What companies did Michael Silver found?
Michael Silver founded Kaizen.
Where did Michael Silver go to school?
Michael Silver studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Bachelor's degree, Computer Science); Y Combinator (Spring 2025 Batch (X25)); Boston University Academy (High School).

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