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Rebecca Qian

Founder

Cofounder at Patronus AI

San Francisco, California, United States

FoundedPatronus AI

30 Under 30 2025 · AI

About

Rebecca Qian is Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Patronus AI. She previously worked at FAIR (Facebook AI Research), and her areas of focus include reinforcement learning, scalable oversight, and environment design.

Cofounder at Patronus AI

Intro paths

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In turn, Rebecca can intro founders to Patronus AI's investors below.

Patronus AI's investors · 5

Factorial CapitalBrooklyn · $500K checks · since 2026Greenfield PartnersNew York · since 2024Lightspeed Venture PartnersMenlo Park · $1.7M – $87M checks · since 2024Notable CapitalSilicon Valley · $5M – $50M checks · since 2024Samsung VenturesMenlo Park · since 2026

Co-founders at Patronus AI

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Anand KannappanCofounder

Experience

  1. Patronus AICo-Founder and CTOcurrent2023 — presentNew York, New York, United States
  2. Facebook AIResearch Engineer2020 — 2023
  3. Facebook AIMachine Learning Engineer2018 — 2020Menlo Park, California

Education

  1. University of ChicagoBachelor of Arts (B.S.), Honors, Computer Science

Skills & more

Leadership3Public Speaking9Teamwork2Python7C10Apache Spark6JavaScript3HTML3Linux3MySQL3CSS3Social Media6
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Languages Chinese · English · Spanish

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Frequently asked questions

Where does Rebecca Qian work?
Rebecca Qian is Cofounder at Patronus AI.
What companies did Rebecca Qian found?
Rebecca Qian founded Patronus AI.

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Shared employers

Also worked at Patronus AI4

Dan CahanaPrincipal on the Investment Team at Notable Capital, focused on Cloud Infrastructure & AIGlenn SolomonInvestor at GGV CapitalNnamdi IregbulemPartner at Lightspeed Venture PartnersAnand KannappanCofounder at Patronus AI

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Peter ThielCo-founder & Partner at Founders FundChamath PalihapitiyaFounder & CEO of Social Capital; CEO of 8090; All-In co-hostJim BreyerFounder & CEO of Breyer CapitalDavid SzeAdvisory Partner at GreylockKen ChenaultInvestment Team at General CatalystIsabelle StyslingerSenior Associate, Rise of the Rest at Revolution

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