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Samuel Brashears

Founder

Founder at DryMerge

San Francisco, California, United States

FoundedDryMerge · YC

About

Samuel Brashears is the CTO of DryMerge, having previously held technical roles at Cerebras Systems and Hive AI.

LinkedIn ↗

Founder at DryMergeYC W24

Intro paths

YC

Samuel went through Y Combinator (Winter 2024) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

GP

Their group partner at YC was Jared Friedman, YC Group Partner — the partner who ran DryMerge's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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In turn, Samuel can intro founders to DryMerge's investors below.

DryMerge's investors · 2

Ritual CapitalY Combinator

Experience

  1. DryMergeCo-Foundercurrent2023 — presentSan Francisco, California, United States
  2. HiveSoftware Engineer2023
  3. Cerebras SystemsSoftware Engineer Intern2021 — 2022Sunnyvale, California, United States
  4. MuukLabsSoftware Engineer Intern2021San Jose, California, United States

Education

  1. University of Wisconsin-MadisonBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science2020 — 2022

Skills & more

Analytical Skills3Communication1Leadership1English2PythonJava17Scala12Engineering3Research3Software Development3Data Analysis2Test Automation2
+12 moreCC++TensorFlowJavaScriptHTMLCascading Style Sheets (CSS)DjangoSQLPandasMicrosoft OfficeGSuiteGitHub

From Samuel's professional profile.

Founder mafias

Y Combinator mafia8,668

Also came through, then founded or led a company.

Sam AltmanPresidentFounded LooptFred EhrsamYC Summer 2012Founded CoinbaseMatt HuangYC Winter 2011Founded HotspotsTrae StephensYC Winter 2022Founded PursuitDelian AsparouhovYC Summer 2014Founded Nightingale +1Justin KanYC Winter 2018Founded Rye +3

+ 8,661 more

University of Wisconsin-Madison mafia53

Also came through, then founded or led a company.

Gabe KrambsMathematics and Computer ScienceFounded Compound +1Jack PawlikBachelor of Business Administration - BBAFounded Dripos +1Ray LiaoVisiting studentFounded Empallo +1Dan RuchBAFounded RocketripBarry SandweissFounded FinLockerTimothy SternBAFounded FinLocker

+ 46 more

Cerebras mafia2

Also came through, then founded or led a company.

Mamal AminiApplied Machine Learning ScientistFounded GovernGPT

Same school

Also attended University of Wisconsin-Madison240

Zhenyu TangInvestment Director at Intel CapitalDougAdvisor at Clear VenturesDan RuchPartner at Rho VenturesGeorge RobertsInvestor at OpenView Venture PartnersKevin WenzelAssociate at Marlin Equity PartnersHelen LiangFounder & General Partner at FoundersX Ventures

+ 234 more

Shared employers

Also worked at Hive8

Niko BonatsosInvestment Team at General CatalystMitchell CatoenFounder at PhonicRoanak BaviskarFounder at TrainyAndrew AikawaFounder at TrainyTalha BaigFounder at SaatvyDave FeldmanFounder at Greenboard

+ 2 more

Also worked at Cerebras Systems15

Steve VassalloInvestor at Foundation CapitalMichelle FangResident at Lux CapitalAlbert WangSenior Director at Qualcomm VenturesScott PettyGP & Senior Advisor at Signal Peak VenturesLior SusanDirector of Content at Eclipse VenturesJJ MoiDesign Partner at Prime Movers Lab

+ 9 more

Also worked at MuukLabs2

Doug NealManaging Director at eLab VenturesGeri KirilovaPartner at Laconia