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Robin Lee

Founder

Co-Founder & CTO at Dawn Industries

New York, New York, United States

FoundedDawn Industries · YC

About

Co-founder and CTO of Dawn Industries. Previously a founding engineer at NUUA, an aviation AI startup that raised $10 million.

Co-Founder & CTO at Dawn IndustriesYC S26

Intro paths

YC

Robin went through Y Combinator (Summer 2026) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

GP

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

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In turn, Robin can intro founders to Dawn Industries's investors below.

Dawn Industries's investors · 1

Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2026

Co-founders at Dawn Industries

J(Joohyun (CJ) Cha
Joohyun (CJ) ChaFounder

Experience

  1. Dawn Industries (YC S26)Co-Founder & CTOcurrent2025 — presentNew York, NY
  2. Nuua Inc.Software Engineer2023 — 2025Seoul, South Korea
  3. Columbia UniversitySoftware Engineer at BillingeLab2022 — 2023New York, NY

Skills & more

Artificial Intelligence (AI)1Deep Learning1Natural Language Processing (NLP)JupyterKotlinPython (Programming Language)
  • Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter Tuning, Regularization and Optimization — DeepLearning.AI
  • Neural Networks and Deep Learning — DeepLearning.AI

From Robin's professional profile.

Frequently asked questions

Who is Robin Lee?
Co-founder and CTO of Dawn Industries. Previously a founding engineer at NUUA, an aviation AI startup that raised $10 million.
Where does Robin Lee work?
Robin Lee is Co-Founder & CTO of Dawn Industries.
What companies did Robin Lee found?
Robin Lee founded Dawn Industries.
Where did Robin Lee go to school?
Robin Lee studied at Y Combinator; Columbia University (Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science); Korean Minjok Leadership Academy (High School Diploma, Computer Science).

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