About
Rick Gao previously worked at Verition Fund Management developing financial models and optimizations, and conducted computational biology research at Yale's Gerstein Laboratory. He is currently founding Alkera AI.
Founder at Alkera AIYC S26
Intro paths
YC
Rick 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 Ankit Gupta, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Alkera AI's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Rick can intro founders to Alkera AI's investors below.
Alkera AI's investors · 1
Co-founders at Alkera AI
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Tony LiFounder
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Andrew TranFounder