About
Paula Gutierrez studied aerospace at Imperial College, MIT, and UC Berkeley. She has worked as a quantitative analyst at Bank of America and NASA, as an engineer at Rolls Royce, and as a software engineer at several startups.
Founder at SelfinYC F25
Intro paths
YC
Paula went through Y Combinator (Fall 2025) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
GP
Their group partner at YC was Tom Blomfield, Monzo and GoCardless co-founder; Y Combinator partner on leave and Anthropic compute-team member. — the partner who ran Selfin's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Paula can intro founders to Selfin's investors below.
Selfin's investors · 2
Co-founders at Selfin
JT
Joel Tomas PimentelFounder
Experience
- Selfin (YC F25)Co-Foundercurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- Bank of AmericaQuantitative Analyst2025London Area, United Kingdom
- NASA Jet Propulsion LaboratoryAerothermodynamics Engineer2024Los Angeles, California, United States
- Rolls-RoyceSummer Intern2024Derby, England, United Kingdom
- University of California, BerkeleyCFD Engineer at Flow Lab2023 — 2024San Francisco Bay Area
- Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyAerodynamics researcher at Hypersonic Research Lab2023Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- ClearSpaceSoftware engineer2022Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
- MagdriveSoftware Engineer2022Didcot, England, United Kingdom
- Consejo Superior de DeportesHigh Performance Athlete, RFETM2011 — 2022
Skills & more
LeadershipTeamwork4Generative Neural Networks1Python (Programming Language)PyTorchConvolutional Neural Networks (CNN)PINNMachine Learning1Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)4SolidWorks7Star-CCM+2OpenFOAM
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MatlabDeep LearningComputer-Aided Design (CAD)AerodynamicsLinuxC++Aerospace EngineeringAutodesk Fusion 360AbaqusHTMLSimulinkJavaScriptLanguages Alemán · Español · Francés · Inglés
- JPMorgan Chase & Co. - Quantitative Research Job Simulation — J.P. Morgan
- ESA Grand Prix: Winner of Student Aerospace Challenge — European Space Agency - ESA
- SuperNova 2023: Best Spanish Student Under 25 — Nova
- Deportista de Alto Rendimiento — Ministerio de Cultura
- IELTS — Cambridge English
From Paula's professional profile.
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Paula Gutierrez?
- Paula Gutierrez studied aerospace at Imperial College, MIT, and UC Berkeley. She has worked as a quantitative analyst at Bank of America and NASA, as an engineer at Rolls Royce, and as a software engineer at several startups.
- Where does Paula Gutierrez work?
- Paula Gutierrez is Founder of Selfin.
- What companies did Paula Gutierrez found?
- Paula Gutierrez founded Selfin.
- Where did Paula Gutierrez go to school?
- Paula Gutierrez studied at Imperial College London (Master of Engineering - MEng, Aerospace); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Master of Engineering - MEng, Aerospace); University of California, Berkeley (Master of Engineering - MEng, Aerospace).
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